October 2005

On the Web

• Weychert Gone Wild: Sometimes, you just need to dance. Well, I do, anyway.
• Stan & Rob: Champions of Multimedia Design: Bandy provides an intimate glimpse into the lives of Stan and me.
• Occupied: A Jeffrey Stockbridge photo series documenting interiors of dilapidated Philadelphia residences. Some of these are right around the corner from me.
• Dawn of the Knitted Dead: George Romero’s classic characters rendered in yarn.
• Fire Destroys Wallace and Gromit Warehouse… See more →

by the tenth inning
I began to consider
self-immolation

a malediction
placed on the state of Texas:
vegetarians!

dad sighed mawkishly
“my little girl has grown up”
he shook the pimp’s hand

seeing G.I. Jane
emboldened this virago
to stab Ridley Scott

his hair was perfect
but it was widely bruited
that his skin was fake

those silly surgeons
if they were less loquacious
I’d still be alive

“shower-fresh feeling”
never did quite find a home
in his lexicon

go sound the tocsin
our son has escaped his crib
with a taste for blood

the collection plate
fills the bellies of the poor
and keeps me in pelf

his father-in-law
a basketball votary
owns many tube socks

when Jack the Ripper
was described as aberrant
his feelings were hurt

we’ll just set him up
with some kind of sinecure
since he has no legs

the neighborhood watch
keeps this conurbation safe
from flesh-eating slugs

his final moments
were smothered under a pile
of gift shop gewgaws

the crowd’s gaze was fixed
the drama was palpable
fur would fly tonight

laconic response
to a bouquet of roses:
“I’m calling the cops.”

they dread the onus
of college graduation?
oh, they’re art students

the resplendence of
nature is sempiternal
and so is Ric Flair

you strangled my wife
I will not forget this act
of beneficence

October has arrived once again, and as autumn’s chill makes its graceful entrance, a young man’s fancy turns to... the macabre. I’m something of a Halloween fanatic, which is a great comfort when the transition into fall would otherwise find me irritated by the loss of warm temperatures and extended daylight. So, with nature in its gorgeous death throes all around me, I fill my Octobers with all things horrific, and this year, even my… See more →

this inchoate cast
will bear the likeness of Christ
once I get some yarn

effulgent sports cars
the essence of every film
starring Corey Haim