Most Who Apply Are Accepted

LILIANA

Came out as a cassowary.

OH AKEEM

Akeem do we have you?

Yes, we have you!

I GUESS JULIA SHE

 

Disappeared at the mercado.

NNEBE 

Speaks fluent Croatian.

AZIZ

He might be a lot of things

But he’s not a liar.

FAN GIRL FUMI

Faced back-to-back knee surgeries.

RESTY TESTY, T.I.O.

View Resty Testy’s profile.

SADIYA

You know.

From services

Sadiya

It’s her birthday.

VICTOR

He is always win

He is always victor.

DARA’S NEW FRIEND

Dara say She exactly like me!

White dad, Thai mom!

SCRIABIN

Leaves a girl real shook.

BARB?

Just a little,

Barbara said.

JUANA JIMENEZ-WATTEAU

Everybody’s favorite dental hygienist

MANDANA

She got hers 

With pineapple in it.

AND THEN WE WENT TO GRANDPA ADISIYAN’S HOUSE

Yeah, you remember.

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Getting Back to Stardom

I know I speak for many when I say 

Yeah, life can be “a demoralized torpor”

It can be a sample platform

Or it can be shucked to order

Or it can be a thriller with chilling implications

Or it can transform your very heart x200.

An app, a hash tab, and a quad cold brew espresso

Style so ill

Rocking marquee slots

Season One’s Augie

Bee of Season Two

Bee as in billions

Billions with a Z.

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

Infrared Sculpt

THE PHOTO OF THE DESERT TORTOISE’S PENIS

Got me to thinking.

NO

I don’t know why.

SPIN THREE TIMES

While you check your phone.

AUSTRIANS WITHOUT UNDERPANTS

Entering their particulars.

Wij gebruiken cookies. 

IT’S FROM “SEINFELD”

The reference.

I LIKE TALKING TO CELESTE

But did I tell you?

CREDIT SCORE 

Credit Score, Credit Score

Won’t you be my Credit Score?

I ALMOST MESSAGED YOU LAST NIGHT

Do micronutrients have superpowers?

IS IT BACKWARDS?

Yeah, the front is all the way to the left.

IN YOUR FACE

Three cars, a house, and two kids

Is more than “picking up extra shifts.”

Next question.

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

 

 

Middle Evil Religious Fanatics

In a land far, far from genders,

In a time without pronouns,

Monks, besides the devil feared

Quietism, like unto fine marzipan,

The spread of marginality,

Spikes in social engagement,

Young angst manifestatti,

Revenge ideators,

Capablanca’s endgame.

“With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws”

Didst the selfsame monks, like unto

Multipurpose durable scouring sponges against

Glutamates,

Pilates,

Prerolls, eighths, and more,

Splash pages,

Extended wheel bases,

GPS, NATO, the Dow. 

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

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Since Silent Spring Got Even Quieter

No ringtone, no vibe, no ding

Anyone can have a bobblehead night

Any day of the week

And the OG is right here in the USA

And tell me that isn’t Karl Marx

Viewing clips of sleeper hits

In the computer lab.

That’s why I was like telling your dad

There are two stairways to the stars

I took the one most tagged

And that has made all the difference.

It wasn’t nothing, but he hasn’t replied.

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

 

OK So It Now Appears

And like I said I mean

For active everyday comfort

I did practically a half ironman before

The avo toast got me higher than a kite

Due to what I buttered it with

Coffee is Italian roast.

November is not really a good time 

For delivery people on skateboards

But I can be armed to the teeth whilst

Checking my sugar

Using harpists’ fingers 

With no strings attached.

Only heavy equipment rests on Sunday

Meet your maker, make your mark

Eucharistic adoration is back

I am but momentarily chill though

Genuflecting to find an outlet 

Is the most genuflecting I do.

I had a deja-vu moment

I texted el presidente 

I demanded extra tofu

Security was summoned

I was arrested for planning my own euthanasia

And spirited to Algiers.

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

 

 

I Don’t Often Share Make-up-Less Photos

DEPRESSION

Yeah so I’m

A moored vessel

In a shipyard of 

Chinless jellyfish.

PET HOTEL

Cage doors creaking. 

IT WAS COLD

You could see your breath.

THE PASSION

I thought I forwarded it.

UTILITY ROOM

Laundry basket green

Rainboots black

Yoga mat purple

LIFE CALENDAR

One best by date, 

One drop dead date.

SEA SEWAGE

Runes inscribed backwards.

LIVING HOPE

Run out of town backwards.

ENDOWED CHAIR

Very well endowed.

This chair is built.

KNEEJERK RXN

It was a reason why I had did that.

STARKOLOGY

Studying what I have did.

IN CONTENTION

My favorite place to be

That, and pussy.

In contention for that pussy!

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com