christmas pies & such
yes : the
good couch lollipop’s being skippered
by an
idiot : who went to the office party & ate
the swedish
meatballs : who’s now using her
fingers to
lice-comb the snugglie for lint balls :
wanting to
bug-squish-punish all things round :
& fever
weighs down the snugglie’s bell-bottomed
sleeves : too
heavy : throw the pup seal overboard :
& her
pie-crust head bursts from its pasty shell :
a slop
shot : all of jack horner’s proud little plums
sink at
once : a porcelain pocket extravaganza
the atheist superhero
has no
icon : no crimson cape : no saintly
lunchbox of
sacred bones : just the pulse
of his
name on a live contract : promising
to
shoulder : the here & now
Maureen Kingston is an assistant editor at The Centrifugal Eye. Her poems have
appeared or are forthcoming in Big River Poetry
Review, Gargoyle, So to Speak, Stoneboat and Terrain.org.
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