Thursday, March 12, 2015

#EatingOurselves

Some dangerous strains of ‪#‎Escherichia_coli‬ 
Are obtained from eating bovines 
Or hanging out in #Texas too long

Some strains of ‪#‎Salmonella‬ come from eating birds and reptiles 
‪#‎Ebola, however,‬ you get from eating other ‪#‎Primates‬ 
Or from hanging out in ‪#‎Texas‬ for too long.
Are diseases you can get from eating live humans 
Or from hanging out in #Texas too long.

Maybe we humans should be more careful with what we put in their mouths 
Or at least try not to hang out in #Texas for too long.

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

A Summer in Hammond

Six years in asphalt and stucco deserts,
Summer days that were little miracles
Wrought with small glorious adventures of
Puddle jumping in damp concrete channels,
These spawned green slime, tadpoles and you.

Greater adventures ensued the day
when your mother and grandfather reconciled
In the land painted green with ensemble trees
Where silt colored sod flavored rivers
Meets the chilled blue of salted ocean,
Here layed the memories of her first years.

Here ripe black fruit explodes from thick fierce brambles
Splashing your toddler belly with summer’s blood.
Briar scratched arms tattooed with natures wine
Race to fill your lustful little mouth with hordes
of swollen flesh  bursting with sweet tart juice,
the gleeful revelry in air amassed.

Upon the apple wood roasts pink orange fish
And calcium castles that pop to share
Wet grey flesh less their lucent stone,
One missing treasure that could make these days
Last til weeping ceases and joys abound.

Long tendrils of grey green moss wave ghostly
In weathered knotty pine boughs brushed
By salty ocean breezes mulled with fish,
Herald a starlit evening of chat,
As waves of reconciliation wash
Across the shore to sweep away the foot-
prints of familial schism and regret.