Bob's Grabbag

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Thursday, August 23, 2012

HORROR SHOW: A Poem to Set Your Teeth on Edge

It's feeding time at the Trailside Zoo at Bear Mountain State Park "Hi there, you protected species," said I to the rattlesnake. "Fangs in working order, are they? Venom potent as before? That buzzer on your tail still works?" Darting snaketongue in and out, tasting, sampletesting air, slowly you... Sign in to see full entry.

HORROR SHOW: A Poem to Set Your Teeth on Edge

IT's feeding time at the Trailside Zoo at Bear Mountain State Park "Hi there, you endangered species," said I to the rattlesnake. "Fangs in working order, are they? Venom potent as before? That buzzer on your tail still works?" Darting snaketongue in and out, tasting, sampletesting air. Slowly you... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

MURPHY'S LAW

Here's how it is in Murphy Land where Murphy's Law rules all: buttered bagels land face down, or they don't land at all! Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

NOW AND THEN, A LITTLE ZEN

Close your eyes. Breathe in only through your nose, imagining a thin white mist at bottom of your screen that rises, brightens, fills your sight and lungs! Make it hover there a second, then let it sink and dim its whiteness, turning brown as it descends - then breathe it out your open mouth. REPEAT... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, August 20, 2012

DOUBLE-OH 8 - LICENSE TO SAY NO

World destruction on her mind and used to wearing black, she slipped unnoticed past machine gun guards, barbed wire and the motion sensors to the inner inner sanctum, keeper of her nightmares, atomic Armageddon-Maker... "Stop right there! We shoot to kill! This is Federal Property! Those bolt... Sign in to see full entry.

008 - LICENSE TO SAY NO

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Sunday, August 19, 2012

POETRY ON THE PORCH - Saturday, 18 August

Suffern Poetry had its monthly "open mike" (sans mike) on my back porch last night, the first time we'd held one at someone's house. A really fine everning, with citronella candles, a birch log in the fire basin, a gallon of local wine, starlight, cool weather, no bugs - it couldn't have been... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, August 18, 2012

THAT OTHER WORLD

We all know the three dimensions: height and width and depth, of course. If we didn't, how would we know how much paint we had to buy? Yet I suspect there is a fourth - I've read somewhere it's simply time (Don't try to picture it unless you have a taste for paradox). The nursery you want to paint... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, August 17, 2012

BODLE'S OPERA HOUSE

Come by Bodle's Opera House, but not if you're expecting opera. Come if you're okay with corny, casual, and character. Jarvis Boone's each night's emcee, who greets each late-arriving guest with drum roll on - I kid you not - a little hollow wooden pig. Take a seat and at your place you find a spoon... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 16, 2012

AVOIRDUPOIS

Avoirdupois, you extra bulk, you ugly bulge around my waist, who the hell are you? You never introduced yourself, just moved in, made yourself at home! You betrayed me, found my weak points, led me on to say "Why not", sit back and let things take their course, wheedled me with "Just this once" and... Sign in to see full entry.

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