Friday, December 25, 2020

If I Do Run Away ...

 

but the weed

is just a weed while

resentments are

ideas gone to seed

https://www.instagram.com/giganticjet/


Friday, December 11, 2020

The Biggest Obstacle Now ...

 



CM Evans likes to climb trees and sing songs. https://twitter.com/Acanthotelson

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

There's ....

 



a person who might not be

the tallest or the strongest

the cleverest or cruel

rather the best for now

wrought from faith and hope

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Be Your Best

 


Save the endangered slithy toves! https://twitter.com/Acanthotelson

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

It Is All Your Fault

 


I, Vitelli, dei Romani sono belli. https://twitter.com/Acanthotelson

Friday, October 23, 2020

 


I Like Those Movies

 


“…the sun is shining strongly though a gap in the clouds. The sun shines over a wall of mist, then it is gone. I think about being a ghost, and what it would be like to haunt this building. I’ve worked here a long time, and now I am just visiting, like a ghost.”

Sunday, February 03, 2008



https://twitter.com/Acanthotelson

Look I Promise

 


sometimes the gate we go through
is a locked door or a broken promise
the highest path can include


Wednesday, October 7, 2020

In Every Big Disaster

 

i think it is enough
i have today and tomorrow
in the middle i have dreams
surprising dreams

https://twitter.com/Acanthotelson

Sunday, September 6, 2020

I Tried Ordering Happiness...

 


but i will be valiant in poems
and not give up happiness
because it is happiness
because i am happy


https://twitter.com/Acanthotelson


Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Clogs and Bell Bottoms

 


frustrated when circumstances come to fruition
like clapping your hands and being upset
at the echoes

or

deciding to be in a mood
like choosing a hat or pants or jacket
and saying this is who i am

https://twitter.com/Acanthotelson

Friday, August 14, 2020

In the Name of Love

 

if i keep caring i might discover
today is not broken nor yesterday
nor tomorrow

https://twitter.com/Acanthotelson


Wednesday, August 5, 2020

What Keeps Me Up at Night is Me Being Up All Night



few people do it
hire an inspector
to check their singing
magic house

https://twitter.com/Acanthotelson

Sunday, July 26, 2020

Friday, July 24, 2020

I'm a Food Scientist


eat better

i drip fried chicken for blood
and have candybar thoughts

by 10:03

i've saved then lost then saved
myself thought me

suddenly in sharp focus
the thinker

like a robber
caught in light

a bit of a monster

but wanting to be nice

https://twitter.com/Acanthotelson

Sunday, July 19, 2020

I will show you



where does
invented dread
come from?

from the one
who dreads.

https://twitter.com/Acanthotelson

Saturday, July 11, 2020

I Believe in Long Awkward Silences For You



I saw a frog and I listened to it.

It said, "MOOP."

"You should be croaking." I said.

The frog said, "MOOP."

"CROAK." I said.

The frog said, "MOOP."

I made a note to tell someone what I have seen and heard, if I saw a certain person (or persons).

Don't Fear the Reaper



one ton of happiness
is very light

one ounce of misery
unbearable

https://twitter.com/Acanthotelson

Thursday, July 9, 2020

I Will Never Let You Ruin This Beautiful Day


all trees have plans
to put roots through
our corpses


https://twitter.com/Acanthotelson

Saturday, June 27, 2020

Betrayed


“Birds fly in my windows, and tell me things. The little darlings.” he said to me.

https://twitter.com/Acanthotelson

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

It Was a Beautiful Evening Full of Whimsy and Dreams Until You Said I Farted.


There is a bag of it here somewhere. Where did it go? The village took it away. https://twitter.com/Acanthotelson

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

I Wasn't Sure Black Holes Existed


i go back and read
about the shortened lives
of those who loved and wrote

for one
after a lingering
yet graceful death
gloriously he was burned
in a an iron machine on a shore
as a great storm came in

https://twitter.com/Acanthotelson

Monday, May 25, 2020

Be Careful When You Play on the Rocket Slide



All complaints must be submitted in writing, and can take up to 90 days to respond. https://twitter.com/Acanthotelson

Sunday, May 3, 2020

Thursday, April 16, 2020

She Said She Was Cursed


"Never get a mime talking. He won't stop." -- Marcel Marceau

Knitting for Me

"When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics." -- Voltaire, plus https://twitter.com/Acanthotelson

Monday, April 13, 2020

I'd Be a Liar


4. The weather in England is pissy and rainy. In France, the weather is pissy, rainy, sunny, and full of the French. The sun in Italy is harsh and unavoidable.

5. https://twitter.com/Acanthotelson

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Sunday, April 5, 2020

Banana Bread


Which reminds me of a dream I had last night. There was some kind of problem, and the solution for it was quite simple and sane:

1. Dress up like a banana
2. Eat bananas

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Teflon and Teffles

Teffles has a twin brother, Truffle. That's the Norse god of fungus. They have a cousin named Raffle, she's the goddess of chance. https://twitter.com/home