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ppcocaine vs. Frank Gehry.

Spinoff.

On center ice.

Arguably the world’s greatest food city.

It’s still unclear who is No. 1.

THE PACKAGE OF BEEF JERKY

Is this it?

No that’s chips.

INTERCESSION

But when that didn’t happen

I’m like oh maybe,

So I started looking in my car.

I thought maybe it was in my car.

THAT SMELLS REALLY GOOD

Smells like my guy’s cologne.

He’s a tree guy.

Earbuds dangling.

But it’s more than just the tree.

If it were just the tree

That’d be one thing.

THE BANK FORECLOSES ON BARBIE’S DEAMHOUSE

Lightning jumps out from behind the couch.

Helicopters hover motherfuckaciously.

IT’S WEIRD BECAUSE

Well like

That time in Pismo.

JUST WHEN EVERYTHING’S A MILESTONE

Shit I don’t have my phone.

IT USED TO BE A CARL’S JR.

But they turned it into a Señor Phở.

HOW TO BE AN INFLUENCER

Shake that booty pie!

 

© 2020 Randy Stark

Please visit my website at www.randystark.com and my page at Write Up The Road.

 

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Sugar From a Special Box

“In Joe Bradon’s confused and angry mind he knew something was wrong. Special lunches. Sugar from a special box. It had to mean something.” 

Written by Bob Mitchell, narrated by Art Gilmore, from “Highway Patrol” Season 2, Episode 36, “Narcotics,” aired June 10, 1957.

Please visit my website at www.randystark.com and my page at Write Up The Road.

 

 

 

Coming to Faith

SO WHEN I FIRST CAME TO FAITH

Four guitars, sax, trombone, keyboard, drums.

PETITION

Wassup mobster?

PRAYER

Dear God,

More signs of serendipity please.

More TV we love, Lord.

IN BED

My tongue blinked.

I REMEMBER SITTING THERE GOING

Dilettantism is violence.

YES

According to two sources.

OK NO EMERGENCIES RIGHT NOW

But that was then.

MY BRAIN

Took another nosedive.

IT’S LIKE OH

If found, please return.

Right?

I CALLED TRIPLE A

And I just started bawling.

YOU LOSE YOUR FLUID

Brakes won’t work.

© 2020 Randy Stark

Please visit my website at www.randystark.com and my page at Write Up The Road.

 

 

Bringing to your attention...

I also blog for Head Light at Write Up The Road. 

Here are links to four recent posts from that site, by subject matter, dealing with issues like intro- and outrospection, cultural corrosion, and the effects of aging. 

http://writeuptheroad.com/fractal/

http://writeuptheroad.com/experts/

http://writeuptheroad.com/the-nu-beatels/

http://writeuptheroad.com/discount-memory/

© 2020 Randy Stark

Please visit my website at www.randystark.com and my page at Write Up The Road.

 

Asking the Right Question

DO YOU WANT ME

To pick up some of that Lebanese bologna?

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN YOUR LIFE?

You working?

HE’S ALL, THEY FUCKING LEFT

I’m like, Why’d they leave?

ECUADOREAN POET, EH?

Start sharing.

WHEN YOU’VE GONE THROUGH MAX-Q

And become supersonic?

Part of that conversation?

EVER DONE THAT?

It’s a trip.

THE ONLY THING I’VE NOTICED

Is the kitties haven’t been here.

You mean to tell me

You haven’t been here either?

MY THERAPIST?

I told her about a year ago I said

I want to bash my head in with a ball peen hammer.

DONTCHA HATE IT?

I hate it.

© 2020 Randy Stark

Please visit my website at www.randystark.com and my page at Write Up The Road.

Some Kind of Not

I’m often asked about

The camel in the recliner

Clapping at the tropical fish

Floating across the giant screen.

Even with all the evidence on my side,

I’m an expert at odds with reality.

I’m just saying it ended two nights ago.

I was born too, too late, too, you know.

© 2020 Randy Stark

Please visit my website at www.randystark.com and my page at Write Up The Road.

Truly, Deciduously

Fighter jets landing on a fashion runway.

That ten-day period every year here in

The desert when it looks like Ireland,

With the director’s cut loudly enforced,

In the name of

Pain relief

Shift differentials

And cage diving.

Amen.

© 2020 Randy Stark

Please visit my website at www.randystark.com and my page at Write Up The Road.