June 2012
After Cat
[FOR REFERENCE]
It’s 2012 in Los Angeles, the desert of Fatburgers and termite tents. Of sushi, noodles, ooshie-gooshies and durmbling burbies — regular Twizzlers, strawberry Twizzlers, and the other kind of Twizzlers. And dizzlers. And fizzlers. The Lap Band Commercial is playing at Largo.Hey, mister, are you my cat?
Oh, hi Larry, you say, what time is it? 2:30? That sucks, nowhere...
elvis costello —complicated shadows
What Have You Eaten
I.
What have you eaten?
Hey, what did you eat today?
Was it any good?
II.
Mark Bittman hates pop
He says, “Limit pop for kids”
I say, “Can it, Mark.”
III.
A big Seven Up
Summer day, sweating buckets
Mark, shut up your face.
IV.
Put mayonnaise on
To give your sandwich some slide
No quinoa prison.
V.
What good is summer?
One hundred summers without
A...
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