Like a potbellied sandwich Found in a neighborhood sandwich shop I’m hot and gooey Swiss-cheesy Filled with red and green hot peppers I come with or without mustard On wheat or white Thinly or thickly sliced Can I change the world? The potbellied sandwich can! He is a man with a plan. Am I a […]
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Triplets Tamara MCPOEMWe named them: Fuchsia, Turquoise, and Black Ivory.The moment they were fertilized, before they had even become fetuses,everything about them had been genetically determined.How do you speak about losing three babies? Technically they weren’tbabies, but blobs—fertilized eggs that had turned from two cells, to fourcells, […]
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! PROMPT — If only … If he hadn’t stolen my hard drive and then blackmailed me,we would still be together.If he hadn’t lied about it,minimizing it,we would still be together.If we hadn’t argued at “Prep and Pastry” about Homecoming,I would have been with him in Mississippi […]
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! The Club Members may include husbands, children, mothers, grandmothers, friends,and they may also include arms, legs, a torso, a foot.All members can be dismembered.All memories of the dismembermentmust be forgotten.To survive is to disremember.To never forget is not always an optionfor us souls who never forget.Instead we must […]
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! I told you I would name a poem After you As we did laps around the Safeway Shopping plaza Passing the Dollar Store Passing KonaBerry Frozen Yogurt, The Irish Pub You made references About the poems I could write About us on this night Walgreens was closed […]
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! “An extremely credible source has called my office and told me that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is a fraud” “Arianna Huffington is unattractive, both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man he made a good decision” “You know, it […]
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Liposuction:1. Stomach: lower, upper, waist, mons … (sp?)2. Back: flanks3. Legs: knees (around tops, sides), (calves?), inner thighs, outer thighs, love handles, front things, back thighs4. Neck: lower, around jawbones Nose job:1. Straighten nose: off-center2. Bump off top3. Smaller at bridge4. Smaller bulge5. Slightly upward6. Height and […]
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Time Would have died to be a ballerina Schedules Pima Community College classes for son who will be 18 soon Wears green and black striped socks Helicopters hover overhead (even on Wednesday nights) Eats first Whataburger hamburger Meets a Bangladeshi boy Considers law school Gets super fat […]
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Tamara MC—Poetry I’m nobody, who are you?— Emily Dickinson Diss-HER-tation speaking: I am a collage. I am a woven fabric. I am past. I am present. I am future. I am a scrapbook. I am a note. I am a list. I am an altar. * I repeat […]