Fauxku Choo Choo (the play's the thing)

[Keith]

hungrily
trashing
used subway token

Used on the subway
small tokens
taken like sweet sherry

[ellajam]

Used on the subway
small tokens
taken like sweet sherry

Sweet Sherry was scared of the roar,
the steep steps and the sliding door.
Though the train was direct
each day she'd elect
to take buses for two dollars more.

[just mercedes]

though buses made travelin' sweet
she couldn't quite fit on the seat
so she had to stand
and hang by one hand
while passengers stepped on her feet

the reason she had twenty toes
and extra legs no one quite knows
her ma was a drunk
her pappy a skunk
the whole family was quite on the nose

[ChristopherSea]

the reason she had twenty toes
and extra legs no one quite knows
her ma was a drunk
her pappy a skunk
the whole family was quite on the nose

No one knows
why certain cheeses
smell like toes;
are they hand-crafted by monks
or foot-shafted by skunks?

[ellajam]

No one knows
why certain cheeses
smell like toes;
are they hand-crafted by monks
or foot-shafted by skunks?

Hi, Chris

How sweet a slice of moldy cheese,
it's fine blue veins are no disease.
Full flavor wrung
left on the tongue,
to share it kiss me, please.

[ChristopherSea]

How sweet a slice of moldy cheese,
it's fine blue veins are no disease.
Full flavor wrung
left on the tongue,
to share it kiss me, please.

(you asked for it )

Pucker up with fermented breath,
your moistened tongue,
it’s aged aftertaste.
Offer me those casein curds
your special whey.

[ellajam]

Pucker up with fermented breath,
your moistened tongue,
it’s aged aftertaste.
Offer me those casein curds
your special whey.

Begone, you with fermented breath,
those 30-packs will bring on your death.
Steeped in every pore
you can't take much more,
Budweiser's as deadly as meth.

[ChristopherSea]

Begone, you with fermented breath,
those 30-packs will bring on your death.
Steeped in every pore
you can't take much more,
Budweiser's as deadly as meth.

Buddy’s no wiser than old granddad;
they’re wild turkeys and drunk again,
their livers await the pathologist’s jar.

[rayheinrich]

Buddy’s no wiser than old granddad;
they’re wild turkeys and drunk again,
their livers await the pathologist’s jar.

a floor, a foot, a shoe,
(and your sweet breath)
runs wild and unreformed again

[just mercedes]

a floor, a foot, a shoe,
(and your sweet breath)
runs wild and unreformed again


today I bought a scarf
of sinuous black silk
I imagine it knotting
your wrists to my bed
your eyes are back
in my dreams

[ChristopherSea]

today I bought a scarf
of sinuous black silk
I imagine it knotting
your wrists to my bed
your eyes are back
in my dreams

secure again in your
silk scarf’s capture,
taunt me with sharp pricks
of your eager quill;
tattoo dark desires
in my soft places.

[ellajam]

heartbeats
the resonating tattoo
of life

shell to ear
whooshing pulse
familiar song

[just mercedes]

antique radio
only picks up old songs
memory music

in the ballroom mirror
shadows move -
ghosts

[rayheinrich]

in the ballroom mirror
shadows move -
ghosts


ghosts of unbearable lightness
i
in your mirror
you
in mine

[ChristopherSea]

ghosts of unbearable lightness
i
in your mirror
you
in mine

the unbearable mass
of Ursa Major
dwarfs vistas of spiral galaxies

[ChristopherSea]

hidden in the woods
the suspense became
unbearable

lost in a forest
the Master of Suspense
was known as ‘Afraid Woodcock’

[rayheinrich]

lost in a forest
the Master of Suspense
was known as ‘Afraid Woodcock’


The lodger took 39 steps, he knew the lady who vanished, suspected her beyond a shadow of a doubt,
but was spellbound; this notorious stranger rode on a train to murder, was seen darkly through a rear window
just long enough to catch the thief, the murderer, before the vertigo set in, his mind somehow knew to point
north by northwest, to follow that lady, her psychotic birds crying Marnie!

[ambrosial revelation]

The lodger took 39 steps, he knew the lady who vanished, suspected her beyond a shadow of a doubt, 
but was spellbound; this notorious stranger rode on a train to murder, was seen darkly through a rear window 
just long enough to catch the thief, the murderer, before the vertigo set in, his mind somehow knew to point 
north by northwest, to follow that lady, her psychotic birds crying Marnie!

Wanted: Psychotic Lady Lodger
'for ti go' share flat with notorious thief
and his estranged bird Marnie.
Must not mind being trained to murder.
Apply in person 39 North Northwest Point

[just mercedes]

there was a hitch
he just couldn't climb the tree
vertigo....

Rebecca waits for him
spellbound at Jamaica Inn
behind a torn curtain

[ambrosial revelation]

Rebecca waits for him

spellbound at Jamaica Inn
behind a torn curtain

That 'Butler O.'
is bound to spell 'trouble',
'trouble' and 'blue rot'.
It's curtains for us.