Saturday, September 28, 2024

Lines of Scrimmage

Born in a small motel near a busy container port 
Raised on complimentary breakfasts
And premium extra sharp government cheddar
Ankle monitor in my brain
Frown of steel
Jaws like a concrete ravine 
A smoldering a Q-tip in between
Lips like wireless routers
Count the number of legs and divide by four
To determine how many heads I have
Each with two left ears
Pairs of buttery croissants 
Combing the biofueled crosshairs of various feeds.

I fucked up and took the face of God at face value
He and me were tight for a minute
Then God switched up on me crazy
I hate when that fucking shit happens
But no point in getting all 
Bitch ass weepy or trigger happy
Over ditchwater under a bridge to nowhere
It takes titanium-toed socks to fill big shoes
I redeemed myself and now identify as a 
Rushing crown to where everybody’s vying for 
Me, they sing to me each time we meet
Rushing crown, rushing crown
Won’t you be my rushing crown?



 

Friday, September 27, 2024

Frequency + Intensity = Reality

Coming in hot as 
The coolest of the cool
Like to say

War on democracy released to all platforms
Drones and choppers swarm overhead 
Dropping intellectual retardant

Melting granite into magma
Degrading critical thinking skills
Securing destruction of rational thought.




Thursday, September 26, 2024

Focus on Operational Excellence

This is party platter planning season
So stay merchandised
Meat managers must be involved
Meat coffins and meat bunkers must be stocked
Planned spillovers on embryo barges and gamete gondolas
Must not restrict aisle flow
Convenience is key
We must delight the 
Incrementally impulsive
With fulfillment: ambient, chilled and frozen
Cryopreserves are only the beginning
20 percent off makes it even more exciting
Tuesday means triple points.


Saturday, September 21, 2024

Scenes from a One-Track Mind

1.

Dining and Dancing in the Erechtheion
Popular with the marginalized and other
Members of the identity community
Fully in control of their own images.
Legs of the Latina intensively inked.
Is that Manny Machado?
Legs of the Asiatica aglaze.
Do you wrestle?


2.

Rejected by the AI salon
It fell on him like a ton of feathers.
Jesus bit his lip.
Fly dude on the loose intensive.
Incident report? Gratitude journal entry?
He called it the Bible.
A major cultural event.
Free superpower included.


3.

Where’s the little one?
Something about 
We dropped him off
The hissing of the espresso machine 
Drowned out the rest but 
I’d be in shock if like
It was anything other than
The name of the doggie day care.



Thursday, September 19, 2024

And I Thought No, I Thought

What the news said was
Unruly leaf shed.

But it’s five actual parks
To where scientists are concerned.

The Olympics, obviously
Beauty on auto save.

It’s like kind of like
Bodies that reverse climate change.

And I can view all culture
Just by staying tuned.

But then, if you ask me,
I’m wondering if maybe next year

It’ll be a nurse strike, a priest shortage. 
Fitness guru dead, right?

Kind of outside my purview.
I’ll just stay in my lane.


Copyright 2024 Randy Stark



Saturday, September 14, 2024

Social Studies


ALGO SOSPECHOSO

And other particulate matter.


IMPOSTER SYNDROME

I had to use my phone
And Google translate.


TRAFFIC

Free from gluten, lactose 
And artificial preservatives.
Traffic went like
Very very smooth.


LINOLEUM

And who among us hasn’t?


MERCH

Decreases stress.
Fosters a sense of camaraderie.
Heightens focus.
Stimulates creativity.


SHE’S 25

Unique and beautiful
Just like my blog.


INACTIVE DUTY

Icy wastes.


THE DOORS

Screen, Patio, French, and Doggie.


PUDDING RINGS

Available upon request.


MEETING THE MOMENT

Start making pudding rings now.
Trust me, you can’t make enough.


ALWAYS

That’s where you make your money.


 

Thursday, September 12, 2024

Why Holy Cross?

The answer to your question
About her decision is held
Among the three young skaters

A Vishnu
A Valkyrie
A Ganesh

Hopped off the bus
Whap whap whap
Like they were late to the coup

Her first serious boyfriend
That’s a big deal
Leads and speaks all languages

You know what I mean
Ephebic
Byzantine

And Holy Cross is like
Maybe she likes
Smaller schools.


 

 

Saturday, September 7, 2024

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.







Friday, September 6, 2024

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


Thursday, September 5, 2024

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.




Wednesday, September 4, 2024

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. 




Tuesday, September 3, 2024

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.



Monday, September 2, 2024

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.