Let's Dance!

Some total silliness to liven up your Friday...

Some Fucking Haikus

Hello, students. It is well known that Zen Mistress Fireblossom hates haiku. But "hate" is such a strong word. So, she is going to assume the lotus position, clear her mind, and release all negativity. She will meditate, seek oneness, and refer to herself in the third person. Oh my gosh. Look! Haikus!

pink blossom receives
the hummingbird's eager kiss
gets chlamydia

zen master teaches
each lesson sweet as cherries
but still needs night job

house with paper walls
requires a patient artist
frames keep falling

birds like toyotas
fly quickly over the trees
never slowing down

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for dverse form for all, y'all 

Sweet Man

He's a sweet man.
Am I allowed to say that?
He looks like
A little bottle of India ink.

It's a perfect day.
The sky is full of puffy clouds like lazy angels,
And I'd love to lay a sweet slow one on one of 'em.
Am I allowed to say that?

He's a sweet man,
Like clear water rushing over open hands.
He makes me feel peaceful, like my shit-crazy girlfriends never do.
Am I allowed to say that?

He knows I'm the kind of woman who burns the breakfast
And runs off with somebody's sister first chance I get;
But he's balm for the wounded spirit,
And I love the way he smiles when I say that.

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dedicated to N.

Parlor Game

Open this room.
Open this jar.
Come sit cozy
Where the dead things are.

Hush.
Not so loud.
Not so pretty.
Not so proud.

Hideous germ
Infects and wastes.
Shape by the berm
Seeks embrace.

Open this room.
Open this jar.
Let's see how strong
You really are.

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for dverse OLN

GerrrrrrOWWWWwwwwwwrrrr!!!!

Yankee go home!

GO TIGERS!!!

Done, Devil

What have you done, Devil?
Jimmying the front door this time was a cute touch.
Look at my walls, my rugs--
What have you done, Devil?
I suppose you're going to clean this up?

Devil, get behind me.
Rhumba down,
Cha cha back.
Look at all the black heel marks on my precious linoleum--
Look at all your stolen souls, gone amok.
Who is going to control them?

Devil, let me straighten your tie.
If I didn't know better, I might think that you had arrived
A tiny bit high.
Have a cupcake, Devil.
I made them myself, and went to no small trouble.
Of course they're chocolate!
You're such a fuckwit.

Devil, you think you're so wickedly smart--
You smear brimstone on the hearth stone
And tell me it's pop art.
Be glib--
Very nice, very well.
Let me say this in the most loving way:
You don't look so good.
You've let yourself go all to hell.

Til next time, Devil.
Go walk up and down upon the Earth.
Do whatever it is you do,
But for what it's worth,
Pink is the new red, and goes just as nice with classic black.
Oh, don't try to tell me, Devil,
That you never thought of that.

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for dverse poetics

Family Snapshot

"Speak your mime," they said,
so I did,
only to find myself both mute and vilified.

"Open wide," they said,
and sent the carts,
rattling along the darkened tracks like spastics.

At the bottom,
is everything I ever choked back;
milky-eyed, fat-lipped horrors, with folded, featherless wings,
and a knack for surviving on each others' blood.

"Shine your light!" they said,
as burning moths fell from my eyes like splintered bones;
"Fire in the hole!" they cried,
bright with glowing logs inside their own.
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for The Imaginary Garden With Real Toads