Friday, November 24, 2023

Rod Smith

 

Oren Gates

He’s a pepperspray all hairy

Dips of the filth bleat them, go
over-boink, like a lariat

or a test– they fill them, those
nut-brained beamers, & then

they run the light right out–

we’ve packed for a pleading, lean, lost
road

trip.

w/ Snoopy, & that bird.

*

“Junior, stop making that face at the chickens.”


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