Our very blood

People complaining that a product is merely "flavored water."
But everything is flavored water.


I'd like to be one of those brainiacs who revolutionizes the game.
Any game.

Knowing it won't

The ridiculousness of seriousness.

An all-star tribute to the word “daze”

Textbook: Unsolvable Problems

(This banana really tastes like a banana.)

Don’t get back to me. Get back to me.

Quality of light

The way rain changes distance.

Wait'll I get a hold of those molecules.

Take refuge here and there.

You're exaggerating.

(How old is this burrito?)

Go back to where you first thought it

Strange police doings-

This might be a blood-sugar thing.

If it is a fake, it's so beautiful it doesn't matter.

We'd better get cracking on these tic tacs, as they're only good until August of 2007.


(That's for you to know and me to find out.)

Anybody who's everybody

Speak in things that sound like code-
(I have no business here.)

Revel in baglessness.

Dig that drape.

Where are you sitting?

(I was over the impression that we had an agreement.)

Vacation's end

They get points just for heading in the opposite direction on the escalator.

Maybe hearing that song once was enough.

(Photos aren't memories.)

Bare feats

Meaning is an imposition.

Be wary of syllogisms.

Evocative in the way of old area codes-

(Where have all the smirky girls gone?)

Same argument every year

A dog named Naught

Book: "Salt Water Taffy: An Oral History"

I'd be upset if people didn't make fun of my poems.

Pour your water from on high.

(Or did focus lose you?)

Immaterial Girl

New Jerk City

No one does

What a good pillow salesman would say.

He gave us a foul tip.

Don't ask me that.

A cat as "too petty."

At last

"(M)oney wants to be free--that's why it swims out of your pocket."

-from "Sweet and Low" by Rich Cohen

Spending attention

At least our schools had clocks with sweeping second hands.

This day needs yet another name

Making out with memories.

My worldview was shaped by the frozen yogurt dispenser.

Remember when that awning was new

Concerts billed as "An Evening With"

You look smart.

I promise the next one will be better.

Baiting fate.

Sun-blown

Nodding at nothing.

The new tense.

Finally, the protagonist we deserve.

Carve your own little Nietzsche.

I keep forgetting to get

Do I want a bottle of cola

Everycity

A chart tracing the popularity of the nickname "Knuckles" over time.

While you're alive, could you...

(What we're allowed to make fun of)

Know nothing, but know it inside-out