The Medulla Review
KJ

the latest coping mechanism

 

oh rolling lover on wheels with her

heart after most perfect efficiency!

you have transmogrified most glee

into concerted attempts at celerity.

 

o Aphrodite! why would you allow

humans to crook their desires like

the spines of sorrowful young men

with their eyes glued to toys deeply

embedded in their tenderest palms?

 

o Death! have you lost your sting?

facebook died a little more today

when some girl chose hara-kiri.

 

the bereaved told the girl's face-

book page how sorry they were

for its loss: the fondest farewell

to a friend i've double-clicked on.

 

i try to imagine myself happy in the

future when another editor sends a

"FU" into my email because he/she


must be streamlining my effort(s) to

remain totally indifferent to his/her

pomp & circumstance with a most

genteel & concise all caps acronym.

 

i’m thinking of joining the mafia;

i'm afraid i won't be hardy enough;

i hear they replaced their initiation

rite of holding a smoldering piece of

 

paper with a spam message the new

initiate has to leave in his inbox until

the Don mails the Mafia's form oath.

Organized crime has gone paperless.

 


Bio:
KJ lives in Orange County.  Mr. Bear, KJ's dog, edits all of his poems.  Right now he is probably about 4 Benadryl into the day, and hoping that some more people will follow his blog: http://illegalfunk.blogspot.com.  The following places have published him: decomp, Rose and Thorn, Prick of the Spindle, Gutter Eloquence, and Sex and Murder.

 

 

 

 

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