The woman at the next table
passed me the ashtray
with a kind and understanding smile.
I poured myself in with gusto.
I do not care for the one
with the mean grimace and fixed gaze.
Bribed my memory
To serve me well for a while
Let’s see what happens
Refugee bodies
Respectively estimated
Around two hundred
Mass exodus proportions
Rio de Janeiro fishes
Ahead in the polls
Twenty sixteen Olympics
Might be a stinker
Climate change to blame
Too many fish in the sea
Like men
Most worth throwing back
World in terrible chassis
Is there fur will, yes or no?
a bald dog hollered.
Finger shows telling
ghoulish tales of reading
after dark descends
the staircase bearing scissors:
The Barber of Free Will
On days like these…
climb up trees
worship iguana
axolotls go a long way
sometimes wear pyjama
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Always remember…
The sound is always
preferable to the furies
Take it easy my fine fellow.
Let the air breathe you.
Cliché-ville in two hours!
Originality
requires effort not force,
focus not hocus pocus.
Step outside your omphalos, Carlos.
See the world as same as us.