Saturday, July 4, 2026

Rich Cake as We Speak

Parade pageant cavalcade tattoo
Drum and bugle corps
Great traffic and better click-throughs.

I jumped at every promotion
Which card what activity where
Racket sports, certain crudes.

With infinity my perimeter
Time traveled eight times faster than Flonase
Seamus was my Shohei.

Today I’m not myself but 
Kind of not yet ready
To swipe a totally new look either.

And it’s no time to be out of step
Success only comes to those who
Are not like the wrong door.

I didn’t sign up for it but somehow 
My depression got put on auto-renew
I became an indoor cat after that.

Sadness quarters soldiers in my head
The weight itself unconstitutional
The kind medication don’t wipe away.

The coming true every second of
What I don’t want to come true
At all ever.

In a two birds with one stone kill
You need to be an early bird.
Or asleep like there’s no tomorrow.



Friday, July 3, 2026

Donkey O-Tay

“It’s a crazy world…somewhat of a casino.”
---USA President Donald Trump, April 2026


TRAINS RUNNING DARK

Weather unavailable.


LIAR

Tell us about
Bring us up to date.


TWO SIGNS

Free Books
Please Don’t Take the Crate


RANDY ALLAN POE

Journalist, literary critic, poet, short story writer and novelist,
Orphaned, alienated, romantic, morbid, alcoholic, intellectual, tragic,
And he died young.


NOONER

My housemate and her girlfriend 
Conjugating as only a skank and a b-i-t-c-h
Who met online and were radicalized by lust can.


HOME STAGING

I’ll see myself out.


AUTHORITARIANISM

And the dope needed to deal with it.


CELLOPHANE

A cell phone.



© Copyright 2026 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Setting the Stage

Away, and mock the time with fairest show.
False face must hide what the false heart doth 
    know.


Saturday, June 27, 2026

Points of No Return


BAGGAGE CLAIM

Emma she from Tokyo.
Yvonne she from Madrid.
Sipping iced flat whites.
I remember the airports.
I remember the pussy.


PRIVATE CROSSING

Radicalized and italicized
A fresh take on my oeuvre
A powerful moment
The end of an age
Too many railings
Too much celebrity
If shallowness were depth 
These would be 20K under the sea
20K under the Holy See
If you were baptized Catholic like me.


THE SUMATRANS

Humble and trendy.
Destruction you can trust.
But we suddenly had to like run.


YORICK OF LA FRONTERIZA

The fuck, you’re smarter than this fool
This skull merely a destination sign
Proving you’re going the right way 
But hella smarter and better prepared
Ain’t nothing gonna stop you
You gonna make it.
Or, B, you’re just as lost and fucked as dude here.
Two things can be true at once.


A VAST AND HOLLOW BEACH

Super minus tide
Low gray ceiling
Like a bowling alley
Before the lanes are installed.


(HORN HONKS)

Notice went out today.
Inactive people will be purged.

One good thing about that: 
I’m totally ME coded,

Keeping my profile lit online
Like I’m beginning my Vegas residency.

So while I’d like to die 
With dignity and style 

To self deport in my sleep
I’ve never known when to quit.

And now I can go to Predict-o-cize
And monetize my own demise.


THERE’S NO GOING BACK

Prepare
Find
Consider
Choose
Set
Hire
Begin
Close.



Friday, June 26, 2026

Broke News (with a little help from my friends)

Remains discovered
Siblings arrested
Consumers rethink
Markets rebound
Gridlock grips
Pope declares
Meteorologist warns
Actor stabbed
Housekeeper questioned
Video confirms
Lockdown lifted
Report critiques
Officials accused
Officials convicted
Convictions reversed
Rule spurs
Plan aims
Leaders discuss
Concerns raised
Group calls
Agency offers
Judge orders
Firm sues
Firm handshakes
Thick milkshakes
Strawberry fields forever.



Saturday, June 20, 2026

Sorry You’re Breaking Up Can You Repeat That?

I don’t think I totally
Like remember it myself
But there is a video
Talent density at specific frequencies 
The thermodynamics of dark energy 
It’s a bottomless mimosa 
Of bad chemistry reads
Spectroscopes surfing gravitational waves
Yes you learn to roll all right
Do like everybody does
Like wild canids in clinical trials 
Stabbing, shooting, hit and run
Blessed are the contradiction navigators
Updating their preferences
Finding potential hookups
Fent bent over their phones
Curating figures for which
They shall receive twelve-figure gifts.






Friday, June 19, 2026

Fans of the Brand

I knew them when they rode Metro.
He’s skinny no muscles, she’s charismatic AF,
Beep of microwave vs clang of barbecue.
They only had I want to say 
A dozen followers and maybe two livestreams. 
Help us enhance your experience they asked.

To where now a special demographic category
Has been added to the census: Fans of the Brand.
A place to make memories.
Loquat stars in dark green space?
Tech seep inspired by terror?
Help us build your feed.

From crowded tent to storied venue to
Apocalypse rescheduled, activations launched,
A pod of Baby Hulk-green Buddhas pitching
St. Paul’s Cathedral Resort and Casino.
Blessed are the fans for they shall 
See and be seen.

And by checking the app for a particular
LAND or UNIVERSE
Fans will find happiness, life satisfaction,
And SHOWTIMES FOR CHARACTER APPEARANCES 
By their beloved and iconic favorites, 
A ballet folklorico of triggers and prompts,

Influencers and epic discounts,
KPOP demon hunters and spine specialists,
Sky high anchors and local legends,
Franchise historians and cultural theorists,
All fucking, amidst mounting geopolitical tensions, 
Like non-stop you learn to roll.