bad to have headaches

on friday nights i need a
martini quite soon

more necessary
than tylenol be
for a headache see
is a martini

haiku
or quatrain
silly jew
or insane

shaken not
stirred
poetry
be
absurd

soon she bombay
soon me tanqueray
later we
lay

hearing teens punk

in this twentyfirst
centchry i
realize johnny's
really rotten

today i was a boy at a baby

shower filled with

women i work with in

cluding one previous en

gagement from a recent mil

lennium and glu

tenous goodies i couldn't

eat along with carniv

erous gush that i chose to

avoid due to veg

ie-ism what

ever i

listened to them ooh and

aaww over all of

these pink and

blue things continu

ing stereotypi

cality aaww nonethe

less i had fun as the

boy one of

three and we'll never have

one of those things

karla and me

his f became a d

via
school's slow au
to
gra
di
ng
sys
tem
then i saw his
smile beneath his
long black
hair and i heard him say
yeeeaaaah like zep
just stair
wayed on the
radio well i saw his
thumbs go up like
this was some amazing vic
t'ry so i felt like
mr. hand hanging
out with jeff spi
coli

rick rizzo rocks

as doth doug
as doth jan
et o dream day e
leventh
ye rocketh me sunday
eve a
lone at the
hideout off
elston where
train tracks doth
echo a
million dream
songs

weddings with a brain

tumor conqueror as a
bride and a
btc in the
crowd has
power has so much
magnetic imagery of
love in the
room that
everybody left glowing
this time it means ok everybody
left glittering
loving
loving
yet
stable

mary's getting married to

night and there'll be
tears and dances and
drinks and
dinners with
strangers and
probably hors d'
oeuvres so we'll
stand and when will we say
hello to someone we don't
know cuz we
won't know
anyone what
ever this wed
ding doth cel
ebrate
love and
life and
life and
love and
loveandlife and
what is more
better to
celebrate

a 90 minute nap on a

friday after
work after a
nother late week a
nother late week a
nother late week in
may it is
grey has a 90 per
cent chance to
put me in a
bad mood when i
wake up for
some bad reason i
feel beat in this
seat typing up
shit on this
macbook so
don't look don't
look see you
didn't that's
ok i wake up sip
by sip with gator
ade and word
by word with
shit

students can teach

teachers more than
teachers can teach
students
sometimes when they
listen when they
listen with some
time

two masala dosas and

papadam and
sweet lassi and
holding your hand on
devon smelling
hyderabad if
only all there weren't
plastic bags and
parking meters and
closed restaurants and
beggars smell these
precious fingers! but
that's what you get in
chicago

one ambulance app

proaches me from the
south i hear
her siren then
one ambulance ap
proaches me from the
west i hear
her siren then
one ambulance ap
proaches me from the
north i hear
her siren then
one helicopter ap
proaches me from a
bove i hear
his rotor blades these
noises all these
noises all these
noises heading
west on foster ave
nue one cop car sans a
siren ap
proaches me what o
what
am i
think
ing

some days

i feel

like a

failure

but i

don't have

time to

ask why

socializing on sunday is a

slithering waste for
it often requires a
shower and wa
king up ear
lier than i
wish and may
be ha
nging with hu
mans i'd rather not
hang with no so
cializing on sunday is diff
icult he said before he sipped
from his first
cup of coffee on
saturday

midmay in chicago

block after block
one family's junk is
another one's
find from the
dusty closets and
basements and
attics to garages on
streets and
alleys to
bags and cars and now
our
own

as i pulled up the dande

lions and killed a few more
ants and karla mowed the
lawn again and we
both blew our noses
as the clouds moved in and
the wind and
the wind and
tom skilling chased
storms and the stu
dents kept complaining
about how warm the room is
all i know here is
spring spring is
here here is
spring o cheers! tom
skilling ee cummings but
not ants

when too many stu

dents fail i ask me why you
such a bad a teacher?

no i.d. necessary at the

hospital hello eric she

says as i walk into the

mri room as i have every

3 months for

how many years and

may i do so until her retire

ment party and be

yond well she came back from

her break as i was

inside the tube with

ice cream for karla just

because just

because and my technician he

told me his 34 year

history from xray to

cat scan to

mri when it be

came when it be
came some

where in the mid-80s just in

time to save my

brain then the nurse took my

blood pressure i

admit i felt my

heartbeat thus ex

plaining that high

second number what

do you expect then

dr. p entered with her

thumbs up with her

thumbs up and i

gave her oliver

sacks musicophilia signed by

me signed by

me after

we discussed brain shape

shaping art brain shape
shaping art what's in the

sky now be

sides papa mama ettie mitch and

more

god

love

love

god

o

thank

you

monday's the rabbi

to heal to

heal and tue

sday's the doc to

heal bronch

itis to

morrow's mri will re

veal the heal

ed brain thanks to

all the above

love

love

and the

lord

our rabbi with his ipad

nigel tufnel with his
foam green fender
6 string bass don't
touch it!  he put it
away and then he
touched me as
we prayed my
mri's on
wednesday i saw my
papa praying with the
rabbi with the
rabbi my
papa praying with the
rabbi as the
marshalls went up to
11

been wearing what i wore

last night
all day
been wearing what i wore
all day
been too tired to get my old
ass off the couch save
to eat save
to shit save
to turn off the cubs game
been
wearing what i wore
last night
all day
been wearing what i wore
all day
my sweatpants a
t-shirt my
green rubber sandals
been
wearing what i wore
last night
all day

art op'nings are ex

hausting.  thus explains writing
this one quick haiku.

the trojan ultra thin

lubricated 12
count box got
stuck in the purchase con
veyor looks like
rubber belt is
this yours too?  she
asks us and with a
smile i say for
now i
took my credit card
out
pressed
her
button
purchase now
purchase now
we
drove
it
home

experimental sound studio unlocked

search for that and
see what you find
is it ess
is it my lover's blog
mykindoftownandaround
or yelp for
hipsters
or reader reader
or this thing
with its new name
cuz i'm sick of
its dumb old one
dumb old one and
here is its
new one:
are you ready?

welcome
to
chamber pot poetry

precertification is

insurance masturba

that's right to

keep the cancer patients up at

night but not their

dicks you see but

they're dicks the

ones who

make decisions 'bout

who may need fore

closure let's mix che

motherapy and e

conomy but is that the

way it's s'poseta

be it ain't social

ism says i says

me just get rid of the

bullshit that's unn

ecessary and let us try to be

saved and not

wait

i've no time fer a

rhyme worked 'til six
thirty the art room was
dirty and didn't get home 'til
seven no heaven seein'
bugs on the front porch
wanted to torch the damn
twits with wings call them
twings well let's
sing now cuz the working
day's over and de
spite the cubs' loss to the
pirates it's not on fire
it's the time for ya
hear me a cold one a
vic
t'ry

byo

orokrat

ik bul

lshi

t whet

ther guv

min

t or

hell

thk

air or

edju

ma

kay

shun or

wha
tevuh

doth giveth

me head

aykes dyeuh

reah y must it be

reah well what

evuh we will con

kuh all those

mudduz wit

reah

luv

bt survivors must have

brainwaveconnections and
those are de
ad
bra
in tu
mor cells see

cuz that's how
they all be

fuck 'em all says i
says she
fuck 'em all says he
says we and if we
don't fuck 'em all what the

hell would a b c be but

no time to talk about 

neg a tiv i ty be
cause

love i say
love i say

love con

quers
all

e

ven the

c

word

*inspired by mary and her email of today

section 512 row 3 wrig

ley field at noon on a

saturday in may with

bill who just called yes

terday eve with an extra ticket and

how could i say no i mean i

was still at work and a

bout to go to temple and 

hadn't had any dinner yet but

the thought of an old

style when it's 70 degrees and

you see lake michigan just past cen

ter field well

how could i say no well

how could i say no well

i didn't and i

didn't we shared our bag of pea

nuts with strangers to the left of us and

strangers to the right and the

cubs won in the bottom of the eighth and

the save came with bases loaded that he

loaded marmol loaded but hey they

won and they won and how could

i say no well yeah we

won