What Barthes didn’t observe, to his eternal mortification, was the laundry van that ran him down.

i’ll wager you a quarter to noon
payable at two bits on the buck
to brownies at four o’clock
all shaved and a hair cut
that the tail gunner ain’t worth his weight in salami
when god is my copropilot

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meet constance, one half asian
off half cocked on the go
escallope as a snail at midnight

shell shocked as she sells cockles
as busty as the wind
nailed as the day is long
toothsome to boot
gain root

my firewall was squawking like a chicken
they rounded up a bunch of the homeless
for failing to install fresh batteries in their smoke detectors
lots of work for the monkeys’ uncles

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oddly enough, the oil barons were expert climatologists

Searchers continue to comb the remote Nemiah Valley west of Williams Lake for a mushroom picker who went missing a week ago.