Unrelated Lines
1.
Dogs earn an honest living
barraging us with noise.
Their owner weighs eighty pounds.
Up the street leather leashes
tote her, rolled
like news in wet jaws.
2.
The rain types secrets
embarrassing to Millennials, like
who admits to having owned
a manual?
3.
One can’t expect a relation-
ship when one’s earwax
is wet and the other partner
dry. But was it fun
while it didn’t last?
4.
Tears of relief! a rescue
team arrived trailing
bread-crumbs lost in a cave.
Oh Jesus! like
an unexpected video-call
from your long-dead mother.
5.
Stress breaks the bridge-
struts, destroys my belly
with repeated crossings.
Trucks weigh too much
rumbling like love
over a limited expanse.
2010 - 2019
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