Meat and Teeth

While playing hide and seek in a disco house of mirrors, a fog rolls in. We proceed with abandon, oregano, and cinnamon. Meat and teeth with a hint of what the hell.

Yes, I pick up sparkle rocks sometimes. I'm minding my own business, cleaning out my life, if only to make more room on deck, and some of the rocks took a form. They said hello. I photo snapped them quickly with little regard to composition and lighting.

They were pleased. They'd never gathered together like this.

I had been thinking of taking them on a picnic at the Fox River in Waterford and releasing them back into the stream. And off my table bench space.

Nope. Not now yet. They glint and wink at me. The limelight becomes them.

What becomes you? Perhaps you might jot some recipes in your cookbook life.

Dedicated to Doctor TOM

 

I woke up with three brand new poems this morning. This first one is for you, Doctor TOM

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As much as I’d love to finish this poem, 

I’ve got work to do in the railyard, 

and a long train is coming.

I’ve seen the poster.

I printed it.

Really.

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Peanuts, popcorn, and penny poems

Dedicated to Doctor TOM

Suppose for a moment 

that your life and times are

represented as a circus train

Suppose, I mean imagine,

souls flocking to see your act

in the park, near the tracks

Suppose I’ve seen the poster, 

announcing the date of your arrival 

in my own home town

Suppose I’m already practicing my 

maneuvers as a sword swallowing, 

clown car, hippo on trapeze 

You are moving through, of course, 

and I’m running away without you 

Away … without. I preposition* you.

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Copyright David L White

12/15/23 . 6:30 am

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Those other two poems I mentioned.

Sometimes the 

morning snuggle is me 

getting up to write 

a chunk of poem, 

and you falling 

back asleep

I came back. 

With a poem.

That’s how I know. 

DLWhite

12/15/23

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The poetry is the dead bits of life, 

stuck on a window screen after 

years of breeze. 

Spider shit, mosquito wings, fly balls, 

and a lightning bug that flicked on and off,

for quite awhile, if you can even believe. 

But there it is 

stuck in the screen 

chunks from the breeze. 

…

DLWhite

12/15/23

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*preposition

Thanks to 

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/preposition

What is an example of a preposition?

The most common prepositions are at, by, for, from, in, of, on, to, and with. Other common prepositions are about, above, across, after, against, along, among, around, because of, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, close to, down, during, except, inside, instead of, into, like, near, off, on top of, onto, out of, outside, over, past, since, through, toward, under, until, up, upon, within, without.

Swami

Poem

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I like prompting biochemical 'feel good' bubbles for myself and others.

I like demonstrating that such acts might be within your reach.

Sunday Scritchies 11/26/23

Bejewled Chess

 When the bejeweled people required my birthdate in order to continue playing, I went to the AppStore and almost cried, looking for some other way to waste my time.

I had not played chess since I was 12 or 13 years old. I downloaded a game and won the very first match at level one in less than a half hour.

White wins.

So much winning.

Ultra-processed people

 It's a food science book. I will not finish it. I will look for
quotes, reviews, and youtube of Chris Van Tulleken, author of Ultra-Processed People.

I spit these mashed potatoes out after the first forking. Glack. AND THEN I found the big label on the bottom of the package.

Mashed potatoes ... right!