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Pavlov’s Box

lionxdog

Like Timmy of TV-land lore

I’ve fallen in a

well

(abyss)

Unlike Timmy,

–of reliable best friend–

Lassie

is dead.

the new Lassie

is a replaceable

Pavlov’s

dog,

and I

–in fact–

might be

that dog.

©Karen Robiscoe

 

A Good Platitude is Everything

 

My

“Once Upon a Time…”

has fallen in the crapper–

My

“Dark and Stormy Night…”

the truer

Ever After–

My

“Sunny Day tomorrow…”

a weatherman prediction–

My

“Humor from the Gallows… “

the truth behind the fiction.

penning gold

prompt: reality, really

that happened to match the DP

of…wait for it…

Adult Visions

o the irony©Karen R

 

Rate of Exchange

Rate of Exchange

I am a gap girl–

a hand-struck

lucky penny

unfound

despite redolent obversity

–collecting

nicks

&

knocks

&

scuff

&

scratch

&

dents

&

dings

from a coin flipped

heads, you lose!

into a grate

that’s ungrateful, despite

well…

being a grate!

beats 2 outta 3 tho

¢

–in cracks I expand–

like tar

like spackle

like a life-preserver

’cause I am crazy amorphous like that

every now and then

my portraiture

peeks

up

&

out

spent but unused

my pretty patina

just vague recall

that I

am

a LUCKY penny

lucky…

¢

every now and then,

my etched silhouette turns,

alloy neck craning

to allow my sightless eyes

to peer from that storm drain…

Gazing at where I might have spent my time

// through a forest of stamping feet //

passing by

unaware.

Soft Cell

star_gazing copy
 
Maybe we are all just part of the Godhead

each one of us—

cells in His body,

the cosmos: His plasmic soup

the planets: His bones

the stars in your eyes: His eyes

all stars, I mean, since He’s built a little differently, I think,
 
 
 

–pulsing with stellar energy & Pearly Gate-orade–

I’ll bet God gets His licks in at the gym!

Maybe His moles are our cancer,

and don’t get me wrong,

moles are lovely—

Marilyn’s & nocturnal, both

(I like ’em anyway, even if they’re more 7-year-scratch than itch, since who’s to gauge beauty, really? Isn’t all Life beautiful? Part of the greater whole, the mole–

part of the Godhead,

but hey,

someone’s got to go.

Cells regenerate to stay dynamic

in all bodies

great and small, and moles are infamously deep cover.

Maybe the Einsteins

Keplers

and Hawkings

are part of the Godhead brain,

and

Van Gogh

and

Mozart

and Debussy…

Dickinson,

Poe

and

Pollack….

maybe they are

part of His

He’art.

©Karen Robiscoe

‘Bellums & Whistles

 

subtlety

substantiates…

within its

~smoke~

B dissipates…

within its con

there dwells a pro,

just as dawn

though dark

hides

sol

Aleph

in the end

it’s innuendo

what is meant

& what is sensed–

through

second-sight

& introspection

–the black

–the white–

–the

grey

connection.

Karen Robiscoe dba CHARRONs CHATTER©Karen Rrrrrrrrrrrr

 

Still Water

mop_and_bucket

so distressed

I’ve cleared my desk

crumpled

~page~

cancelled press

( stuffed )

with missing

2nd-guess

& yes

a mess

is Kafkaesque

as

best

expressions

wish to rest

to nexus

into

next

genus

except when

chest

is so

depressed

a necessary

step

for breath

–to soothe

if not assuage

upset–

is trimming fat

to

where divest.

©Karen Robiscoe