Boiling an Egg

Sí but mira.

It’s getting to the point where

Why don’t you pick up 

Where you left off 

Two hours ago?

Is there insurance for feelings?

How about a ruptured episteme?

So I told them.

I’ll be honest with you.

I’m flat cut out for it.

I mean I’m committed to the idea

Of the perfect tee

In size you

And an unlimited lifetime guarantee.

But dark eloquent mornings

Fall on the poor and the rich alike,

Artists as their studios sit for them

Waiting for the sun to rise.

And that huge of an assertion,

That strong of a current, 

That south of a swell,

At this moment's exchange rate,

Delivers euphoric effects.

In less time than it takes 

To boil an egg,

As I’m about to illustrate.

They’re like What?

I’m all it’s your journey.

And don’t repeat this but

Soft and runny have never tasted so good!

So point of order.

Before I jet, let’s

Take the guess work out of it,

So as to,

So as not to.

© 2021 Randy Stark

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Aztecs Mindset Ahead of Thursday’s Opener Against Wildcats

We sort of explained it a little bit,

The way coach outsourced the defensive line:

To stay in the game, you have to play the game.

Counterfactual precedes collaboration,

Proving there’s more than one Ouija board

Dancing down a spiral staircase.

We will have our certainty and eat it too!

The handwriting is on the wall,

A beach hazard statement

Contained in the answers to last week’s puzzle,

And makes experimental not-for-sale,

Not-safe-for-work, and non-fungible-token 

Art in the Côte d’Ivoire

Sound like just the thing.

A very very flowing thing

Not umbilically corded to any raison d'être

But making very very special history

And presenting in quite italic coding

Very very much the story.

You know what they say,

Love the treason, hate the traitor.

Big butt, big heart.

So turn your farts into rewards.

Feel free to grab a nug.

Stay connected to everywhere.

There is no late when there is no now.

Absence is not a plaything.

Until it’s not on NatGeo nobody will believe it anyhow.

 

© 2021 Randy Stark

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Mini Maxi Macro Micro Multi-Acting All Allosteric In Situ

It's the virus talking.

It’s the traffic roaring.

It’s the ocean roiling.

Everybody has violated the rules

At one time or another.

It’s the cute summer outfits chattering.

Classic car show gabbing.

Crude oil nattering.

It’s the crusaders jawing,

It’s security chewing the fat.

It’s the service animals gossiping.

The techie czar coming clean.

It’s the clothespins lecturing.

It’s the metrics addressing.

Chipped nails signing for a manicure.

It’s the buffoons coding for fury.

It’s the old Lions recruiting,

Tawny manes, underarm and pubic hairs.

It’s the deceased giving the game away.

It’s the pregnant women out on base laying down the law.

It’s proyect managers proyecting.

It’s the neighbors yelling.

Yellow and pink hibiscus affirming.

A scientifically designed strawberry açai pronouncing.

Cinnamon sprinkles proclaiming.

It’s the blood thirsty president

With bloodshot eyes droning.

It’s the developers chirping.

It’s the pope pontificating.

It’s health experts tipping.

It’s the neighbors screaming.

It’s the bare shoulders preaching.

These days everybody walks on the minor stuff.

It’s the pharmacist tripping,

In person and at the point of sale.

It’s the placemats yakking.

It’s the ranch dictating.

It’s the striping contractor declaring.

It’s the tiny house uttering.

It’s the bare midriffs articulating.

It’s the compost authorizing.

It’s the virtual universe asserting.

The voluptuous saying their piece.

The vindictive raising their voices.

Board members belly aching.

It’s the celebrated murmuring.

The renowned mumbling.

The award-winning grousing.

The major figure moaning.

The living legend griping.

It’s the virgins baying.

The conceptualists bellowing.

Minimalists barking.

Songbirds howling.

Coxswains having their say.

It’s the orthodontists mouthing.

The hikers bawling.

The bankers blasting.

The resistance decrying.

Shouting how long has it been now?

© 2021 Randy Stark

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Shop Talk (a continuing series)

 

"Find the Arrows" by Neil Novello (c)

Last night: Man Ray.

Les Mystères du Château du Dé 

Emak-Bakia 

So. Who do I owe everything to today?

Poems by Harryette Mullen and Bernadette Mayer in the mail!

And the various daily/weekly/monthly reviews I receive.

And the search screen of the public library at the ready.

And poetry, two-three-four, newbies from a Philly mag.

My favorite: Sara Mae

There's nothing like:

Six Drawing Lessons, by Wm. Kentridge

Francisco Goya

A Sunday-size crossword puzzle

Hank Jones I Remember You - YouTube

Carlos Chavez: Violin Concerto, Piano Concerto, Waltzes, Symphony #2, string quartets,

Clara Schumann’s music for piano,

Anton Bruckner’s Symphony #4

FYI

Clara:  1819-1896 

Anton: 1824-1896 

Closing out with

a)     Dizzy Gillespie and Oscar Peterson

b)     Stanley Clarke at Griffith Park

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Love Machinations, or, Macadamia in Academia

"Ground Arrows + Hydrant" by Neil D. Novello (c)

An all-terrain love poem.

Plain and simple.

Believe you me.

Leagues are forming.

The first time our fleshes touched

I told her to take it easy.

Where there’s smoke 

There’s another dream date.

She collapsed laughing,

You are a deep dive.

We kissed.

Lips like loose beets.

And this is where,

Analyzing oral discourse,

Oralizing anal discourse,

We tongued and grooved,

Bodies dropped into the pillowy flatbread

Like a bronze dory and a

Bottle of hand crafted small batch spirits,

Floating to the bottom of the sea.

Between the best sheets you’ve ever known.

Package contents.

Mounting options.

Installation.

© 2021 Randy Stark

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Invitational

"Savior Street" by Neil D. Novello (c)

THIS IMAGE

This image shows
God is holy
And you are sinful.


DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?

If it doesn’t,
Keep staring.


WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW GOD PERSONALLY?

No?


THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU EAT MOLD

Plus chest pains in your feet.


I BROKE THE LAW

But Jesus paid the fine.


OK SO WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS

Your forever and my forever
They’re not the same forevers.


I DON’T KNOW IF YOU KNOW BUT

Out this way, yeah
People die all the time.


A NEW KIND OF SCHADENFRAUDE

It’s not that I’m happy you are suffering,
I’m just glad I’m not alone.


YOU’RE NOT A GOOD PERSON

You’re like the rest of us.


TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR

So long as your doctor has talked to Jesus first.


LEARNING THE TRADE

Toe it in for Jesus.
Tay it up for the Lord.

PEACE

Take some home today.

GOD IS AWSEOME

And thats a garuntee!

 © 2021 Randy Stark

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A Study in Abjection

I LOVE YOUR DRESS

I get quite excited by it.

 

YEAH BUT NO BUT

Smoke responsibly.

 

SO I THINK I HAVE THE SOLUTION

You can go to church.

 

IF YOU SEE MY BABY TELL HER I LOVE HER

I was looking for her.

I called her brother.

I had her brother’s number.

 

NEWS FLASH 

You will not be spared.

 

GLENDALE, LANSING, MEMPHIS, ATLANTIC CITY 

Regardless.

Clean and sanitize

Your home

Today.

 

A SPECIAL WING

In the rock Hall of Fame

For air guitar

Inductees like me.

 

A STUDY IN ABJECTION 

Use and care guide.

 

YOU DID IT BEST

Police.

Freeze.

 

FOLKS HERE SAY 

Being thrifty’s

The way to go.

 

ENDGAME MANIA

Personal spotlight.

Personal pizza.

Breakfast burrito.

Touchdown!!!

 

IT’S OVER TOMORROW 

So, what’s your question?

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A So Nice Place

"Chair & Cone" by Neil D. Novello (c)

WE BE RIGHT WITH YOU OK?

Sit there OK?

Enjoy OK?
How everything tasting OK?
It’s a so nice place.


AESTHETICS

I’d like any defects to be on the inside.
On the bottom if possible.


TAKE THE HUMAN OUT OF HUMANITIES

And what are you left with?


LIVE LOBSTER IS BACK!

All solving levels.


LEGION OF INDECENCY

Yes, and thank you for that question.


IF WE DO

They’ll be on the last aisle,
Straight back and to the left.


WHERE?

Right there.


AND TURMERIC?

A trope if not a meme.


ATTENTION TO DETAIL

It’s infectious.
And there’s no vaccine.


COVID CONSEQUENCE

It’s more difficult to put our heads together.


SECURITY ACADEMY

Join our team.


GRATITUDE

Thank you for giving me advices
When I got mentally ill.


OH YOU KNOW WHAT?

I’m sorry.
I forgot your butter.

 

© 2021 Randy Stark

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