Bee line

Bees bundled in paper shawls manufacture sap used to mend tears their own diligence makes in the bustle of morning headlines.

Breaking news

When I write a poem, I have it read on the evening news. Sometimes the news preempts my poem. Like that time the anchorman's microphone threw itself from a second-story window. Deprived of his resonant voice, he reported the tragedy in mime, and my poem had to wait until after midnight, when it was read by a spokesman for a used-car dealership.

Uses for nudists

Nudists are useful in a range of industrial situations. They are soluble in water and dematerialize when wrapped in shawls. When heated they swell, and if the heating is continued, they froth, until eventually only a shower of heirlooms remains.

A word of advice for beginners

In order to hypnotize an individual it is essential first to gain the attention of the person concerned.

Segue

A trickle of solvents slurs the void while passwords mutter in the gloom, damaged irreparably by segues. Refugees, breastfed on Sterno, veto vocal arrangements made to correct Mother’s flatware.

It was cool

the first scene was film at my friends house down the street there was camera crew and i seen the actors it was cool seeing everything being made i remember they did a driving scene and when the director said cut and they stop the car my neighbors dad came out brought out a piece a paper ask the actors and the car for there autograph and they gave it to him

Tumultuous effort

Each new impression of stems and roots, small discontinuous bodies and parts of ancient fans, abandoned channels, flats, meadows and human relics first deposited by water and subsequently reworked by wind, destroys in part the tumultuous efforts of its predecessor, a piece of paper.