Lessons In Brevity

 Lesson 1: Rabbit Punch 

I punch you in the face
Everyone knows I kicked your ass
But superficial wounds heal....quickly

I punch you in the kidney
And the effect lasts much longer
Blood in the urine, hitch in your....giddyup

I punch you with my words
And you run screaming my name
The world listens and you make me....famous


Lesson 2: The Flood

In the face of the flood
Only two male poets could be found
And ushered to the ark

They pretended to write beauty
But did they know of such things
Never having given birth

The world did the best they could
In light of the circumstances
After all, stars are beautiful too

Then she was born.....


Lesson 3: Review Senryu

review drips butter
on your firm, well rounded ass
slip, slap and giggle


Lesson 4: The Wolf

I take my steaming supper on a granite shelf
The same one your grandma kept her clown collection on

I invited you to join me but you insisted that you were a vegetarian

Last week I saw you eat a chicken feathers and all, still warm

Lying only prolongs the inevitable, two kids and an old woman

Tomorrow I dine by candlelight, on your still twitching carcass

Not the way I wanted to dine together sweetheart

But your coldness makes you.... the fourth pig

© 2010 Crowley