Lunchtime turnover at Panera

Morning mommies soon
supplanted by suits checking
BlackBerry emails.

Radio interview

You ask, I answer.
Opinions fly. No right, wrong.
It’s all subjective.

Because of the media

based on a poem written by M.

They say I need a
man. Chocolate. But an eye
lash curler’s enough.

original source:

I don’t need chocolate to eat or a man in my life
I just think I do
because of the media
All I really need is my eyelash curler.

Project Runway

Cut pin stitch fabric
stretch confines of clothing to
become catwalk art.

Surviving St. Patrick’s Day

for Cathy

Too sick for green beer
she stayed home, watched bad films of
leprechaun horror.

Channel surfing at 3 am

Late night TV a
wonderland of fast money
junkyard of trashed dreams.

The doctor will be with you shortly

Latex gloves. Cotton
swabs. Antiseptic. What would
MacGyver create?

Facebook

You’re distant but near.
I live through your moods, friends, pix
vicariously.

Other daughter’s boyfriend

Bandana over
his sweet smile, ninja to his
anime girlfriend.

Corey Haim

When Robert Frost wrote
“Nothing gold can stay,” he could
have described child stars.