In a Truck Stop off the Highway

a valentine 4 u hauls trailer full of wedding gifts
we'll have so many kids we'll run out of names

Bitterwork

near a sun-weary church
mourning patrons listen
as a haunted old man
chisels drivel
from rotten stone

pound
the reigning muse
hastens a rancorous loathing
'f unbroken rows
'f endless end-rhyme

mad
he hammers away the fondly missed
then cross he
strikes
an emperor morphing a musty wheelbarrow

frost remains dusty on his modern shelf
when bitterwork is done
his fans fabricate a soft-pine marker
...and 'ere he lies

Surfing in Saskatchewan
for Tracy Latimer

drowsy daddy latimer
mechanically flicks the clicker
surfing now a rougher deed

his was daughter
twisted features
creatures from stephen king's weekly execution

and pbs has got
stephen hawking
mocking

god

biography's
grave narrator
peters out
life and times

bizarre
where superdaveosbourne
never dies