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don’t Brake for Pedestrians

Karen Robiscoe dba CHARRONs CHATTER
 
promise

or

resolution,

once made

ya’ gotta walk that talk…
 
 
chewing gum–optional

take a couple laps

for lip service,

a ribbon & pledge-free proposition

and putcher

money where your mouth is…

exactly like orthodontia except how it’s completely different

–and other tried and

tired clichés—

get some momentum going, you know, and

if you yourself are cliché tired, why’nt ya g’head

and jump start that

guttermouth

motormouth.

Gas ‘er up.

from idle to devil’s playground in sixty seconds

bearing in mind that this hybrid

vee-hickle

gets wicked

(good)

mileage when

charged

with electric,

use the Ziggurat Lighter for this

runs forever,

and emits

no noxious fumes

whatsoever.

Stairway to Heaven–in 12 Steps

Karen Robiscoe dba CHARRONs CHATTER
 
a Cath’a’holic,

I crave my Christian fix

(massive opiates)

the cross on my back

(blood-thirsty)

so burdensome,
 
 

and the Eucharist

so stingy—

(genuflect as needed)

–it’s crackers!

(I wine)

crackers—

save

holey Jeez…

©Karen Robiscoe

♥ of g•Old

Pduck_rabbitulling adult hood

around baby face,

I remember velvet

teen years,

when I knew heh-v’ry-thing

and life was plush

–totting up triumphs,

and sowing oats instead of

sewing button eyes

back on

and carin’ was only

kidding around…

©Carin’ Robiscoe

Fragments Fragile

use_this_glass
 
if your favorite thing breaks, you

don’t throw it away you

pick up the pieces you

get the
 
 

Krazy Glue you

grab some

Duck Tape you

spackle that sh*t together you

re-think its placement you

put it in appropriate lighting

concealing the cracks

and you

cherish it the more

for its near loss…

©Karen Robiscoe

 

 

the total algorithm

fuh beebs silhouette

She was from Facebook.

Facebook, California–

–a genuine, simulated fashion designer,

and I dug the newstream she ran in…

every group she belonged to rejecting

me as a member, and I liked that, too—

her every past,

original, shared, or

tagged,

& trendier comments

penguin emogeeZ flawlessly executed

& ranch house in Farmville

where she summered

well-plotted.

No philistine, either, she

captioned Monets,

effortlessly

petitioned polar ice

tirelessly–

& uploaded

selflessly

–24/7

proof of:

2, 1, and 0

–a less than

3 heart.

©Karen Robiscoe

 

Keeps my Neck from Unraveling

I’ve retrofitted my brain

‘got my Feng Shui on…

–plugged pot holes in my neural pathways

a bush & two birds

seismic-proofed my cortical bridge

a still rock’s moss

switched out the frontal lobe with the temporal

tree on which limb I reside

and widened all axons…

without permit

–why, what I’ve done with the den-

drites alone should make Better Poems & Gardens!

it wasn’t brain surgery

the removal of head from ass helped proprietary value, and

southern star

my hippo campus is so empty there’s room enough for dorms—

maybe there is—I forget

–plus hippo!

©Karen Robiscoe