I have a disrespectful child He is so fanciful and wild He is a catastrophe And when he says hello It's like the room begins to glow He makes a big fool of me I can't help the way I feel about the ones I do adore And the things that make me laugh Just make me love them even more So! Though you pretend that you are mean And not the hero of the...Learn More

I was styrofoam Packing peanuts composed my soul Then I saw it — Strawberry Moon! I was pickled fish In the darkness of the wintertime, I was your dish Then I felt it — Strawberry Moon! No way and no how could I break free Before Strawberry moon rose over me Cacti and blackthorn bow and retreat From Strawberry Moon's apogee From Strawberry...Learn More

Feels like a hurricane Is running through my brain Round, round, and round Lights shining signals above me Who am I and who are you? Permanent markers of truth No, no, no Little by little, you judge me Just when I think time is up All my doubt is drowned out By the sound of your footsteps on the pavement On the pavement Only my fingers weep...Learn More

You got so much but you want more I caught your butler hanging round my foyer His white gloves rifflin' my accoutrements — I welted his bum with the shaft of my riding crop! If I was a judge, were I a jury You'd be in the hoosegow, mincing your story To a one-eyed lout with a face like a shillelagh And I'd be kneeling in the nave And here is what...Learn More

I saw xenomorphs in cargo shorts At the Moustache Mercantile Posing with their Yeti coolers and guesstimating How much cubic human they could fit in For the wormhole journey home — Gotta pack gifts for every squid or be burnt alive In the Forge of Zarfan It's not your usual jam No, I'm not extenuating You just asked, so I'm explaining That's why...Learn More