justwrite 28 october

gentle ferrets earn demerit badges accidentally the tragedies of quiet politeness the frightless herds of flightless birds absurd in deserving their own rewards the just absorption of pleasure in measured doses the hocus pocus holy moses rollers now appearing live and in driven color with wheels and a rink and two blinks of a slurpee in a kery circle twisted around the walls calling out as cannon balls splash into the middle as belly-floppers squash the whoppers right out of their malt the halting crunches that bunch into teeth subverting the cavities and the depravity of the human condition with vegetables missing glistens in a hard candy coating too remote for television too collision-bent like a bumper car starring a collapsible fender lending tender inches to a life worth speeding for the opening of the cellar door drew barrymore found so appealing like tumbling from a bluesky ceiling and landing in a time warp a golf course and the costume having run its track to field stealing each ounce and individual package of divided rackets candywise speaking heaping brackets around each glowing mound of colors and peanuts and the survey of the day says to stay is too long a measure and the treasure worth seeking is keeping its own counsel at my chamber door unsure whether to knock or to lock from the outside the undecided arrogance of knowing the chance is a choice a boisterous voice like a guatemalan watermelon the scandal of a felon and his too-rich uncle stumping for fools and electing disregard shuffling cards into three hands where the pecan pie can fry its own reward and the napkins the napkins are never enough