Why lacquer

nude furniture

when you can

just cover it up

with

a few strategically

placed leaves?

If you should

ever find a

Popsicle stick

on the asphalt

don’t even try

picking it up.

Because, that

stick —

ain’t going nowhere

The dixie cup company

only wanted secession

from boring predictable

paper cups

I wrap all my christmas gifts

in garbage bags

to save a step

 

To-days assassin

always uses three names

just in case, one

of the name’s jams

.

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When I was 4 years old

my parents abandoned me

at Disneyland,

on the Jungle Cruise ride.

I was raised by

auto-matonic wolves.

At the end of the Civil War

the ‘smart’ cannonball factories

immediately switched over to

bowling ball production

You would listen to

the Nutcracker Suite

differently if you

were a walnut,

or knew some walnuts.

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My girl-friend

left me.

She told me I

was too immature.

***

And, yet, the

very next day,

I saw her with

my best friend– 

sitting in a tree,

***

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

I’m putting away

my plans of

self-immolation

for a rainy day

.

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winter in minnesota by alex case

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