Where's Home?

 

Out of her longtang,

Out of her hood,

Out of her vecindad,

Using altar cloths to wipe down cars

Like horses. At the end of the day,

On the way to the TV that feels like home,

The bus rolls by the dream factory that brought you

Happy Hayes the Tail Up Dog!

Let’s kinda talk about her ex

To the teenager she then was,

A total mystery.

And then the man she left him for,

X to the second power.

The human part of animal is all but gone

By the time you’re living by the creek.

The nights are oddly themed.

Now every next morning, fugacious,

Where she live at.

New sign: Keep Gate Locked.

Helicopter rattles the house

Which rattles the stove top

Which rattles the burner covers.

Thank God for school meal programs.

Take care the children.

This Good Joe Fox America Today and Morning

Proving you must not really understand pressure

Until you’ve been on national television.

Swooning over war criminals.

Ellen and Jimmy will show you how.

So screw your courage to the media hitching post.

Get Clorox clean in minutes.

Or they’ll send you back.

 

 

 

© 2021 Randy Stark

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My books are available on Amazon.

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Karl Marx in Oceanside

MODDER ERT

She went from farm to mukbang.

That’s the crazy part,

I added.

DONG FENG’S DRIVING RANGE

Two white experts exploring the galaxy.

THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY

William Wordsleuth inks with

Rhymin’ and Rooster,

Receives signing bonus.

THE BAMBINA IBARRA TRIO

Tuna, bass and barracuda.

DISTANCING

Petey pooped his pants.

JULIAN OF NORWICH AND TERESA OF AVILA

Playing backyard badminton.

The quietest of rackets.

KARL MARX IN OCEANSIDE

Taking two for the team.

DANIELA NINTENDO

My study buddy.

FROM THE SAME LITTER

Franz and Willie.

SAN ANTONIO

I prayed for a new zester

But got a Nordic Ware Pro Cast Flat-top Reversible Grill Griddle

Instead.

PRESIDENTE RUSO

Dancing in front of the TV.

MRS. EDEWUMI

Pick up, she growls.

SYNOD OF BISHOPS

Joey, Elizabeth, Elvin, California.

JIAJIA

And you young lady.

I don’t understand why you’re not married yet.

ARVO PART’S AUTO PARTS

Everything you need

To keep your car running smoothly.

© 2021 Randy Stark

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My books are available on Amazon.

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Statements Taken at the Scene

How many were there?

Two tillers, a teller, a ten o’clock sculler,

Speaking Russian, too, or Spanish, one,

(With Chinese and Arabic subtitles).

Plus, a rapper, a ripper, a bagger, a tagger

And more than a few antibodies dressed in gaming gear,

Ballers, bipoc and white, alike,

Feral hypertrophy winners,

And an orbital sander crying for its mama.

Which way did they go?

Toward the tsunami hazard zone

Where the reversible pier

Goes over the saltwater marsh

Near the mothballed nuclear power plant.

I mean listen.

Let’s be honest.

I love the notion of casino night

But there never was a where.

Did you notice anything else?

Yes I noticed how funny I felt,

Like an Uzbek hikkomori based in Ottawa,

Or a chief public policy officer

Emerging from the margins

To subvert the colonialist order of modernity

Only to be confounded by range of motion issues

While staggering into minimalism

Because there was no 7-Eleven nearby.

 

 

 

© 2021 Randy Stark

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My books are available on Amazon.

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Thoughtful Inquiry

You know we have a little bit of time left,

The horses are being loaded into the starting gate

In recondite fashion,

And here’s why that’s so

Ultra super important.

I just wanted to interrogate the idea of

Molecular cis-acting regulatory RNA sequencers

Coming out of nowhere and at twice the speed of sound

Which woulda blew up the whole Roswell thing,

Defcon to Dari-Delite.

But the volcano imposed an early curfew.

Zeno’s paradox kept me half the distance to the goal line,

And I’m not blue enough to sing the blues.

My real name is only just now taking effect

Like a full moon emerging from the clouds.

Have you ever seen a meme walking?

There’s four of them went in together

On what’s more and more starting

To look like it’s going to be a kind of

Screened at Cannes power grab of sorts.

But you know the thing is

Is the more they jiggle the camera,

Marx once quipped

With lens firmly in cheek,

The more trending it all is.

So me I’m kind of staying on the low end of high

Performance, publishing my passions,

“Mistakes in real time” per Patricia Lockwood.

Sincere condolences for the direct eye contact

But, how do you expect the markets to react?

© 2021 Randy Stark

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My books are available on Amazon.

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Why Not?

 from today's Head Light

Pets — Write Up The Road Media

The Great American Songbook, plus two other poems

THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK

The Great American Gongbook.

The Great American Bongbook.

The Great American Kongbook.

The Great American Hmongbook.

The Great American Prongbook.

The Great American Wrongbook.

The Great American Dongbook.

The Great American Thongbook.

The Great American Schlongbook.

MORNING

Rabbits monitored my progress

On the trail I encountered

A white girl, high school age, in running gear,

Further on, a black man, older, walking a dog.

The man said he was blessed

When I asked how he was.

I STARE DINTOO SPACE

Dandelions was rocking bees.

Dogs was trampolining,

Blue and red heelers trampolining.

There was a pair of parrots.

I said to myself I said

I didn’t know parrots could take off their

Chonklas so fast and aim like that,

From all cosmic angles.

 

© 2021 Randy Stark

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My books are available on Amazon.

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Reflections in a Woodpecker's Eye

 

THE ENTIRE USER BASE

Comes from the same town in Mexico.

CRITICAL RACE TOWING

Cash only.

THE ASSISTED LIVING END

Boarding, daycare and grooming.

DAIRY

Today I learned about stick butter.

IT’S SUCH A WEIRD THING

I seen it on TV

But I never seen it

Like in life,

Where cars was going by.

WHAT A GRAB

Three little pigs on their phones.

REFLECTIONS IN A WOODPECKER’S EYE

For the Death Valley in everyone.

WARNING

If you experience feelings of happiness

Stop using immediately and call your doctor.

WHEN I’M GARDENING

Ants get all over me.

They bite.

BEAUTIFUL VIETNAMESE GIRL SHAMPOO

Very cool and relax.

THE DOG AND THE BALL

No he wants Mom to throw it.

FREEDOM UNLIMITED

A log cabin floating

Like syrup in zero gravity.

HEY THIS IS A NICE SHOE

I wish there was another one.

 

 

© 2021 Randy Stark

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My books are available on Amazon.

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