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The Red Maple


In Lieu of an Introduction
. . . he recommended to all those who might be impressed with a sense of their importance to bury a copy or copies of each work properly...


Logorrhea
There’s nothing like obscurity to help a poem fly!


The Passionate Billionaire to His Love
You better go before we have a fight.
(I think that I might kill myself tonight!)


Interrobangs ‽
Ideal punctuation marks for stuff that stuns the eyes!


Jamboree
Enough's a doorpost for a wife.


Prima facie
All that to-ing and that fro-ing,
All that coming and then going!


The House of Being
The bow is fashioned as the wood is bent.


The Sameness of the Same
I was just born lucky, I suppose!


Anyone Smell Burning Paint?
Rejoice, O fond musicians, in your craft!


¡Ay, AI!
This spider's caught in its own web.


A Million Nows
How could you lose me when the time is now?


A Reckoning
I wonder where the others went?


Unto This Last
You should have thought of that before!


All the Rage
Freaked-out jots detest a weighty tittle!


The Fate of Things
Discarding them you must play rough


Algorithm
A citizen-patient in my dream.


Attis: A Christmas Enigma
Those providential tales are neither wrong nor righter.


December
December 22 is Global Orgasm Day


The Deposizione
Great Kostakis came up with rules.


À propos de Nice
Breaking the bank at Monte Carlo,
Muggs my cat would scorn its mice.


A Bag of Hammers
There’s always something—or someone—
to dumb down . . .


Just Right
Past and future live in our minds


Prix Fixe
Many of our customers give it a whirl.


In Brief
Standing at that door, I wait.


The Spirit of the Staircase
Despite what happens, thus, I write.
It helps me pass the time of night.


Why I write the things I call poems
A reconstruction of Hekataios's world in Wikipedia. “A boar was in the mountain and he did many terrible things to the Psophidians.” —Hekataios of Miletus (ca. 550–476 BCE) This is prose that time has turned into poetry. Everything's transforming itself, right under our noses. Boar and PsophidiIans are long gone, yet here they are. In my closet hang neckties and a bespoke suit I'll never wear again. But I don't discard them either. They have their stories, and perhaps s


Ingenium
The sown whirlwind bears no fruit


The Cyclist in the Apple Tree
Grab an umbrella, keep it furled
—even the rain now makes no sense!


God's Hooks
All manner of things might well be well.
But if they’re aren't, how would we tell?


Satan Fakes a Bow
Effecting a more perfect union
Is what it's all about—


Too Fierce to Mention
Some things are just too fierce to mention
But I mention them here anyway!


Nothing New under the Sun
Artificial intelligence is nothing new.
It's natural wisdom that's vanished from view.


The Bagatelle
The sun has spots, a leopard, too.


Pickle Juice
A plurality of congers calls for bouillabaisse!


Acédie
Miracle Whip in the Great Depression!


Sure You Do
Found things have guided my life—


Il ritorno di Edipo in patria
There are a million poets in the United States,
All lined up waiting at the Pearly Gates.


The Right Side of History
Jesting Pilate, it's no joke,
right side up the family yoke!


The Arms Allowed
I might be an idiot, but I’m not a fool!


Mugwump of the Final Hour
You call this “nonsense history”?
And so it is—but made of words, must be!


86'd
You did not promise overmuch, Parent . . .


Buy the Rumor, Sell the News
Don't try to catch a falling knife!


No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
No matter how good you are, you're never good enough.


NoMo SoHo
This is our stop now—the Skivalocene.


Not without Mustard
“Not without mustard, good Lord, not without mustard.”


For the Birds
Once built a mighty tower for the birds.
But coming there, they came up with no words.


Fireside Chat
· Chatbots gather around my knee.
· Hear your loving grandpa’s plea.


O Fortuna, imperatrix mundi
Fortune, the Goliards knew, rules the world.


Spuyten Duyvil
Replacing truth with meretricious farts


The Saints Go Marching In
Just be quite sure that we can say:
“They fake things fairer now today!”
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