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Category: experimental form

Urgent Message When Flashing

It’s power, of a kind, to draw
the attention

ACCIDENT EXIT 93 EXPECT DELAYS

of zombied motorists with a
silent,
amber scream

FLOODING HWY 2 ALT RTE CR KK

to warn of jackknives, pileups, sinkholes,
(perhaps) transdimentional hordes

COFFEE ON CAR ROOF FULL DARK ROAST HELP

on southbound I-85.

As the boundaries of traffic form and
fade within
roving, elongated

GLORIOUS DETOUR RTE 17 EXIT 12

search lights
how bleary and half-dozed must seem

DO NOT IGNORE CHECK ENGN LIGHT ASK UNCLE JACK

the line of urgency at 3:27 AM.

How stippled, how cracked.

DID YOU HEAR THAT

Published in Giant Robot Poems, Vol 1.

My Life As an Adverb

in the beginning was the Word;
it has/will been/be, ever since/more.

some (words) are more
import-
signific-
relev-
ant than others, without
which the story is lost or
meaning less.

some ARE, some DO,
while some ARE/DO both while
never break-
ing
stride.

the others, though,
gild and embellish
are clutter and noise,
momentary-
ily
worthy of a roughshod draft;
unworthy, certain-
ly,
of eternity.

do they know if they
ARE or DO or do they
wait, anxious-
ly,
for the sharp, red pen?

Play-by-Play

Shall we [SPORT]?
What fun!
Catch!
Sorry.
Ha! That’s okay.
My turn!
Whoops! Good throw, though.
Yay!
My bad.
Sorry!
Sorry!
Ye…sorry.
Shall we [MOVIE]?
What fun!