Sad Slack

Craiyon
try to cut people
more slack than you are willing
to cut for yourself
all that slack just may make
the world seem a better place
best thing about low
expectations is that you've
given sufficient
slack already for almost
all things you'll meet on your way

now excuse me I
have some serious slacking
off planning for the
holiday season and the
new year's great expectations


Mythos

Craiyon
early winter dusk mythos
has the voice of a fashion 
model who is taken to 
drink and turning tricks.

nothing beats a real myth
bourne of chilly north winds blow
sweeping rationality
away from the glow

of the warmth around the hearth
authentic in its cloying
heat keeping passion kindled
through the drafty night

Flower Power

1. Macropinna Microstoma Carpet Cleaner Mini Foama
2. Fossa Mi Fossa Su Casa
3. Leafy Seadragon Pond scum submerged snapdragon
4. Dik-Dik Paddy Mick give a dog a scone
5: Lilac-Breasted Roller Flower covered rolling pin
6. Mata Mata Ana Cona Puna
7. Halitrephes Jelly is good but very smelly
8. Pacu Kid was a friend of mine
9. Gobi Jerboa Rocky Balboa’s deceased sparring partner
10. Aye-Aye Captain! Damn the Halitrephes Jelly. Full spread ahead.

Straddle

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It started with a fever

Fifty years ago or so

Raged at a fevers pitch

Seared to an embers core

An extended fever dream

A fiery consuming ditch

Dug through my epoch seam

As years passed unseen

Gave way to nightly sweats

Low grade daylight fever flight

Fancies flooded daylight hours

Then one day not so long ago

Half century fever broke

Shattered what was within

Shattered all that was without

Leaving only dreams of night

Displayed for none to see

To straddle my flâneur days

A gentleman of leisure

If you please

Sleeping in many days

Baby sleep and fever free

Commando

Underwhere

I mumbled

While practicing

My thousand yard stare

Overthere

What

Why are they always a pair

Who

Underwhere

No

Underwear

Oh

I didn’t care

Even if they have a tear

From being caught in my snare

Because

Underwear presupposes

Overwear

Since I knew I had a spare

I supposed I could wear

My underwear over my underwear

Inventing overwear

Overwhere

No

Overwear

Pointless perhaps

High fashion for others

But I still won’t share

Because the fare

Is just not fair

Now back to playing Commando Bear