Why I’m Staring Suspiciously at an Appliance
The streetlamp went out, right when I crossed
My laptop froze up, and my work was lost
I just need this bagel, toasted with cheese
Why must tragic things always come in threes?
Posts Tagged ‘light’
See how the darkness overtakes the light
See how the darkness overtakes the light,
A blanket shadowing these balls of dough,
They rise, arise again to higher height.
Some men see plain as all that’s pure and bright, And when an onion drags this taste too low, See how the darkness overtakes the light.
The skillful baker does not feel such fright, And adding flavor helps his crowds to grow, They rise, arise again to higher height.
Some men see plain as all that’s pure and bright, And when an onion drags this taste too low, See how the darkness overtakes the light.
The skillful baker does not feel such fright, And adding flavor helps his crowds to grow, They rise, arise again to higher height.
He forms his seamless rings all through the night,
Too rapt to ever through his lone window
See how the darkness overtakes the light.
At dawn he sets his ovens to ignite, His spirits climbing with the fire’s glow,
At dawn he sets his ovens to ignite, His spirits climbing with the fire’s glow,
They rise, arise again to higher height.
But tired hands turn dials far too tight,
Hot flames upon pale crusts do death bestow;
See how the darkness overtakes the light,
They rise, arise again to higher height.
07
06 2009
Observing the Slow-Motion Fall of a Bagel Into a Pool of Milk
rotating, arcing
against a void, a blankness
a wall
its shiny skin
reflecting light
from a bulb
bending it, turning it
now it is soft
now it is still soft
and now
it is harsher
that bulb must be
a thousand watts
of hot
white
white
and now it is gone
and the light brown circle now oval now circle again is about to reach the surface it is a circle it is an oval and we hold our breath in anticipation
splash!
curving walls of white snake up snake down the ring tosses tilts and tosses some more
but now it rests it floats and a thousand tiny ripples run out from it run away from it
they run until they are gone forever like so many onion-soaked dreams we once had
and now it is gone
and the light brown circle now oval now circle again is about to reach the surface it is a circle it is an oval and we hold our breath in anticipation
splash!
curving walls of white snake up snake down the ring tosses tilts and tosses some more
but now it rests it floats and a thousand tiny ripples run out from it run away from it
they run until they are gone forever like so many onion-soaked dreams we once had
30
03 2009
Drinkin’ Song
I woke up this morning with me head achin’ split,
Oh onion-ee, oh onion-ah, oh onion-i-o
From drinkin’ two too many whiskeys last nit’,
Oh onion-ee, oh onion-ah, oh onion-i-o
The light from the window was awfully brigh’,
Oh onion-ee, oh onion-ah, oh onion-i-o
And it hurt worse me head when I squint shut me eye,
Oh onion-ee, oh onion-ah, oh onion-i-o
So I went to the bathroom where me aspirin are kempt,
Oh onion-ee, oh onion-ah, oh onion-i-o
When I turned o’er the bottle it was completely empt’,
Oh onion-ee, oh onion-ah, oh onion-i-o
So I stumbled out the room and to the stairwell,
Oh onion-ee, oh onion-ah, oh onion-i-o
But me hand missed the railing and downward I fell,
Oh onion-ee, oh onion-ah, oh onion-i-o
End over end I tumbled toward the floor,
Oh onion-ee, oh onion-ah, oh onion-i-o
Then me poor poundin’ head smashed through the kitchen door,
Oh onion-ee, oh onion-ah, oh onion-i-o
Onto the linoleum I did flop,
Oh onion-ee, oh onion-ah, oh onion-i-o
When I heard the toaster above me go pop,
Oh onion-ee, oh onion-ah, oh onion-i-o
And across the sky flew some things that weren’t toast,
Oh onion-ee, oh onion-ah, oh onion-i-o
But two pipin’ hot halves of the food I love most,
Oh bagel-ee, oh bagel-ah, oh bagel-i-o
End over end they dropped right in me mou’,
Oh onion-ee, oh onion-ah, oh onion-i-o
And wouldn’t you know me head feels better now!
Oh onion-ee, oh onion-ah, oh onion-i-o
