Friday was the day new comics came out Superman Green Lantern and The Flash down to Mr Q’s comic book shop we ten year old kids would all dash while I was reading squatting in the aisle Mr Q would come up behind press himself against me there rubbing his cheek against mine he’d give […]

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for Peter Marks When your blue chip is starting to look much bluer and your speculative has just lost its life and you buying in at the bottom is like trying to catch a falling knife your dollar is more expensive by the hour your gold is getting cheaper by the ounce you’re calling every […]

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William Henry was caught stealing bread from a cart seven years he got transportation to America for the crime of being poor he was shackled to the floor of a British man-o-war transportation to America many a shirtback was ripped for the cat-o-nine whip to the colonies they were shipped transportation to America there indentured […]

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(The Ballad of Harry Power) Gather round me children and hear my tale sit with me for an hour and I’ll tell you the story of the last bushranger by the name of Harry Power. Harry was broad-shouldered in his oilskin coat in his grey beard he looked older with a double-barrelled shotgun in his […]

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Somehow we drifted into this wet place I just couldn’t feel any pain he came and stole her away from me the green-eyed boy of the rain. I wanted to kill him to tear him apart until nothing of him would remain when I thought of him kissing her mouth the green-eyed boy of the […]

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Now I lay me down to sleep eight hours of every night I slip into unconsciousness and skip one third of every day I keep in darkness counting secret sheep a third of life is lost to dreaming turned and dreamless tossed I pray the Lord my soul to keep my sixty year old bones […]

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Why are professional Italians so bitchy to other professional Italians in this town? Who holds the copyright on broken English and why so twitchy aren’t there enough white fedoras to go around? Whenever I run into another rooster cacciatore who earns a crustini peddling Italian caricatura the room seems to shrink I’m reminded of those […]

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Eli Whitney with hammer and tin one night invented the cotton gin inspired he said by barnyard events when a tomcat tried to pull a chicken through the fence. Now a cotton gin’s just a big old box with a wire screen and some wire hooks in one end a cotton boll gets pulled and […]

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Gideon was a Judge of Bible lore whom God commanded: Gideon make thou war! Go and set the Israelites free from their false idolatry and while you’re at it leave a bible in the drawer. There’s a Gideon Bible in my hotel room in this time of great uncertainty and gloom for any sin that […]

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They call me Mr Critical Mr Critical is my name I can find the flaw in a feather the crack in a drop of rain I’ve been granted authority by the Holy Whatchamacallit all you Masters of Shovelling Shit I be the one to haul it and all your Mighty Engines of Wit I be […]

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