100 Affirmations for Positive, Powerful, Proven Self-Improvement (That in...
I am an elite British Commando. I don’t use the special powder, but if I wanted to use the special powder I could. There is nothing missing from me – I am complete. Nothing bad has ever happened to me...
View ArticleYour Momma’s Red Lipstick (a Leonard Cohen song not written by Leonard Cohen...
(Verse 1) I chose hope. I chose love. I never tried to be Peruvian. I’m not trying to be a dove. I drank milk. I ate through tweed. I was so insatiable for want I had forgotten ‘bout the need. I...
View ArticleHusband and Wife Over a Kitchen Table in Nebraska (from the “Bizarro Ted...
Choosing the bills to pay this month, seated side-by-side at their small, wooden kitchen table, covered with a thin blue tablecloth that barely hides the grooves from years of use, the two of them,...
View ArticleA Soft Spot of His Family (from the “Bizarro Ted Kooser” series)
His hands are rough from working the farm, scraping what he can out of the un- forgiving soil. His face - tanned dark from working in the fields every day from sunup to sunset, wrinkles spreading...
View Article[My meat turns into dust as I recline] (from “The Surreal Sonnets” series)
My meat turns into dust as I recline, The ham, the steak, the pork, the chicken too, Not dry as dust, but dust – so white and fine; When I awake, there is a residue. My meat is now a powder on the...
View ArticleThe Look You’re Giving Me (from the “Bizarro Ted Kooser” series)
The look you’re giving me right now, I’ve seen that look many times before. It’s the look Doc Jenkins has when he holds up a new baby girl and hands her to her mother, and the look she has staring into...
View ArticleTell Us About Your RightLite AutoGlass Experience
My windshield had been hit by a random rock on the commute, and after driving around for 2 days watching the crack widen, I finally reconciled myself with the fact that I needed to get it replaced. I...
View ArticleThe Miracle of the Tractor
1And it came that The Master and his followers were walking through farm country. 2They came upon a cornfield and saw a farmer attempting to repair a tractor. 3“Farmer, what is wrong with your...
View ArticleIf You Asked Me (an as yet unrecorded song by “The Nonsensicals”)
(chorus 1) If the very last thing I had on earth was a box of plague I’d give it to you if you asked me to (oooh, oooh) if you asked me (verse 1) If I was a leper and I had leprosy I’d try to stay away...
View ArticleWhy Should I Join a Cannibalistic Death Cult?
So you’re thinking of joining a cannibalistic death cult or maybe your mom or friend is forcing you, either way you’ve come to Cannibalistic Death Cult Ever After, so joining a cannibalistic death cult...
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