Supplication

SupplicationWe need a patron saint for the banana box­es that they pack your gro­ceries in down at Costco,… for boys in back­wards ball caps,… for vel­cro shoes and old men with wrap­around sunglasses.We need a patron saint for poets the ones with­out faith and the ones with scars from teenage acne, … for body oil, … 

Unintentional Poetry

Every now and again I redis­cov­er some long for­got­ten cor­ner of my vasty web empire and have to clean out an over­grown com­ments mod­er­a­tion queue. For a while there was a rash of spam com­ments made up of seem­ing­ly ran­dom bits of strung togeth­er prose. They stopped appear­ing a cou­ple years ago. But I recently …