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

 

 

Reaching Out to Yvette

Hi Yvette, this is Melody with Fidelity Intake.

Is your face itchy? 

Are your lips burning?

Have you asked yourself

Why is my cart empty?

How come I can never have nice things?

Are you seeking the next great seafood and steak concept place?

Hi Yvette, this is Dayna with Rocky Crest Communications.

Let us build a new feed for you.

We can help your seamless connectivity

To access everything that makes you you.

No one wants their feed to turn into

What yours is turning into.

I mean who wants to work from home in Appalachia?

I can’t hear you. What?

Hi Yvette, this is Crown Prince Yi with Hybrid Angst.

Are you concerned about global threats to democracy and freedom?

Do you know someone who may be?

Were they Mexican like from Mexico?

Hi Yvette, this is Wazeem with Casa de Remedios

Calling to remind you

Keep your relationship status current

Download the one-armed farmer with a broken hoe app

Book your stay

And win a whole month of mood elevating 

Pretend time and sensory play

Explore popular games

With the aesthetics of AI

Take 25 percent off trending tests

When you discover the keys to Christ

Your sinning comes pre-absolved

Many become simply immune

Turn I cant’s into I cans

Learn to flatten the curve  

With deep tissue work arounds 

And post-punk patches

Stir deeply

Whisk well

Roast, toss and season

A generous pinch

We’re pumped

Inspired by world class distinction

We envision

Dazzling blends of gender fluidity

Above all else

We can

And we do

So stop by

Post up

Hop aboard

Have the best day ever

And up to fifty percent more!

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

 

Beneath the Unenvying Moo(n)

Spain France Italy

But maybe not all of them together

John asked the other day

He’s like

& I honestly like

I was like

Turquoise pales in comparison

To the moo(n) this time of year

I think it's interesting too

We’ve been together ten years

So anyway

Back to the Europe trip.

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

 

You Guys Will Know

Is that a wedding or a quinceañera?

Me with perfect Spanish pitch

On quinceañera at least

Properly and politely rewarded 

With quick gorgeous smiles

From the cute and humoring

Young women in shorts and halter tops

When I ask about the ceremony 

At the church on the opposite corner.

Thank you.

Of course.

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

 

That Includes Exotic Sausage and Grilled Tongue

In their real-time behavior

Multiple people within

The meat-eating public has to 

Face the fact that wait a minute

Btich you are fucked, tucked, rucked, bucked

Hucked, mucked, pucked and wucked.

You may be thinking

Wait, what

Obviously like if it’s just

Mi carne es su carne

Hey, same, yeah no

Pick up where you left off.

But hot dogs with sauerkraut are 

Essential to strategically reimagining 

Duck with yellow curry

Even minimal curry

In fact no curry at all

And calling it Coachella.

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

 

Introductions All Around

Had to work 

The day after 

Juneteenth this year

Yes there was definitely that

In-shock factor 

More track ahead

But the engine’s not up to it.

My name is Myssiah

This is my brother Malakye

That’s my autistic brother Mykah

And that’s my dad.

What’s your name?

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

Dope and My Phone and a Cranberry Scone

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT GERMANS

Is they walk fast.

STACKED UNDERGROUND PARKING

Actually I was looking at

The cemetery behind you.

DARING RED CARPET LOOK

Vitamin C arrives in my body on the arm of vodka.

MILITARY NEWS

The Secretary of Defense has been crowned Miss USA.

RUN-ON SENTIENCE

Drunk dialing in my head

Daytripping between my ears

Hoping to make landfall by Saturday noon.

BAKED PSYCHIATRY

A warm hug.

I DON’T REALLY DRINK COFFEE

My blood pressure.

THIS ONE IS CALLED

“Breach of the social contract.”

I go back to court next month.

PLANET EARTH

Patio seating available.

THIS IS A COMEBACK PLACE FOR ME

Is it for you?

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION

Makes my hair stand on end.

WAX

Should have, didn’t,

Would have been a better deal.

I LAUGHED MY ASS OFF

Return service requested.

MY KIDS WALK FAST

Just like Germans.

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

Memoir

Following a career spent 

Capitalist and possibilist

Powered by progressive credit

A division of

Payments over time

No stranger to success

Locking in offers

Dope as fuck

30-year fixed

A set of boar tusks

Always a late bloomer

More often than not

Unfashionably late

Solo but not unaccompanied 

I definitely feel like I was 

Radicalized to where

I literally the week before 

My brain broke

I slammed on the brakes

And threw it into reverse

These days I’m on disability

Getting a little bit of check

Faux Warhol Monroe on the wall

I’m writing like a mad Sumerian

Oh, my phone does it now? 

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

 

His and My's Trip

John Milton and me

Beguiled by fair idolatresses, falling 

To vice industrious 

To behaviors foul

We shared a wall

“If your heart spoke with 

The algorithm assigned to your tongue

I would kiss your feet”

As for nobler deeds 

You know you’re fucked

Before you even board the plane.

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

Inoperable Agog

A rare form to where

I’m seeing something 

I’m saying something 

Clothes on railings

Drying in stages 

Of grief and anger

USA rage room to the planet

Foreskin and seven beers ago 

One subject, college ruled

Family friendly lone gunmen,

Brands with chokeholds on

Price-sensitive consumers

Tentpole blockbusters during 

Improvised explosive device awareness month

Get starred reviews

When in Rome

For mad gladiating

Use code: jointhefun

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

 

Snacks of a Serious Nature

NATURE'S MET GALA

Insects wearing cargo pants.

Owls in their best saris.

MEMORY CARE SAUSAGE MCMUFFIN

 

Take the sausage out and give it to daddy to eat.

INSURANCE

I’m with Absurd.

It’s not in-expensive

But it’s not crazy crazy.

HI-FI

I actually know her real name

But there’s an NDA out on it

At my age.

SALES ASSOCIATE

Kid with green hair 

Green as a python’s gall bladder 

Like a fox run through sauteed spinach.

WHY IS THE REASON SOUTHBOUND TRAINS RUN NORTH?

They put me on hold.

NO STRAW FOR ME

Said the Tin Man.

Ta ta tah ta ta tah

Ta ta tah ta ta tah

YOUR PHONE

Sink your teeth into it.

WINNER OF THE JUNIOR DAIRY GOAT COMPETITION

Her GPA.

It isn’t bad

I mean, it could be better.

I want to let her know I’m really proud.

LIFE IS ALWAYS GOOD

But it just slaps today!

AGENCY AND EVENTUALITY

Wish they all could be Kazakhstani girls.

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

 

The Buzz That Comes with Splashy Kicks

Like I told Karl later I said

I’m really hard on shoes

But these bitches are sturdy.

And they were on sale!

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

 

Breakfast at The Shack

Shack was the answer to a recent crossword clue

Word often used in beach businesses

Outdoor seating next to the slurry sealed parking lot

Packed the place was

With youth, actual and make believe

Mini high-pressure systems 

Careers on auto-save

Talking about

High vectors

Atmospheric rivers and 

Traveling

Overseas

Then Yosemite.

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

 

The Whole Twang

I’ll never forget the time

It was like fucking hot

As she sang with subscriber-only depth

Her make up exploded

Folks laughed

Well I laughed too

But that’s part of her art.

Honestly her whole thing is just

A very like heart-grabbing loyalty program

With hermeneutics and exegesis

For a more screen-balanced life 

She’s not mean but she’s not like super nice

She carries herself like a lower-case f

(Even famous people have trouble finding love.)

Actually it’s more just kind of a 

Progressive messaging symposium

New protocols, free testing

So you can accelerate your productivity

Imagine critical geopolitical windsurfing

While putting your own spin on the aesthetic

While earning points at the same time.

Experience it yourself

The whole twang

Stay eat drink do shop

Save on parts and labor

Save on prescription lenses

Remember you’re in charge

The sparkle in Earth’s mirrored slippers.

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

 

Good Pear Tarts

In dawns thronging

And stark contrast

I stand corrected.

The thing that’s interesting about that

Is a couple things.

One, I am a mixture of 

Active life formula ingredients

In search of a recipe,

Eco-effervescent,

Antioxidant and probiotic.

Two,

I love 

Good

Pear

Tarts.

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

 

Please Be Prepared

As much as I did

Is what I knew

I thought I think 

You need to think

Again 

It’s like

I don’t know

It’s like

Look 

This is a process.

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

 

Any Room for Cream in that Americano?

I saw something, 

Like a child’s first rainbow,

I said something like

They say to do, something like

In the rush to capture carbon

The express has been delayed.

Or, 109 million Germans under Hitler.

333 million USA smart phones under Biden-Harris,

Or, team members are yoked like oxen because

Teams of branded oxen work harder than 

Teams of branded horses or teams of branded cattle 

Or teams of branded mules,

While the fleecier flocks work from home in 

Signature lithium basil rub.

It’s their goldendoodle-labradoodle mix’s world 

But I’m the one who has to go like this?

They’re asking me to join meeting?

To reauthenticate?

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

 

The View from My Alfalfa Romero

Gaining lake enhancement

Along the scenic route to zero.

There are lot of people,

More than I can possibly imagine.

Like I mean 

Without the kids.

The long game.

Who aren’t getting

Enough yellow curry or

Lavender oat milk.

So many y’all people,

So much pent-up demand.

Must I tell you who to vote for, too?

Copyright 2024 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com