TEN TWO-LINE POEMS

1001

if I buy new mittens on line

(will I ever have to go outside)

1002

the hardest thing in life

(is figuring out a brain)

1003

without souls

(bodies float like belly-up fish)

1004

even a flimsy clock

(imagines itself going on 4ever)

1005

either way that’s exactly what I meant

(politicians are balloonists)

1006

a fishtank of claws

(bumping in2 each other) 

1007

tombstone wind

(always leaves a few skulls behind)

1008

pinballing underneath florescent lights

(a moth swings toward another web)

1009

you must give everything away

( )

1010

my grandfather was always right

(it’s too late to run when you hear radiation and keep it in your pants)