cartoons for creatures who can't draw

I. The camel in the needle's eye

     sometimes through the door, a moose

Please announce yourself to the receptionist.
She'll notice your antlers immediately
and escort you to Pete's pristine cubicle.
If by chance she misses them,
you can bray at these gothic columns
until echoes fill the room,
which happens with incredible dispatch,
and brings prissy Huguenots who'll wave
every manner of banner and scream
about what's best and proper etiquette.
You can act surprised and point
to your jewel encrusted crown.
Then the big guy'll decide if some mistake's been made.
And if that is the case, he'll cancel the parade.


II. The sad end of the albino lounge moth

The albino lounge moth kept running
into bright orange and mostly blue
signposts (painted by pigmy giants who'd
left leatherette barstools
spinning in a dervish hurry;
left quart cans of latex open to the air).

And every time he lit on one wet
pigment mottled his wings 'til he
looked like a jazz-crazed bumble-bee
and the danger at each warning seemed
less real and less weighty,
each splash of color dismissed another care.

When strangely, to his surprise, the paint can
lid he staggered onto - wouldn't let him go.


III. "Oh Joy! A Playmate!"

      wishing I was Mel

So then the mouse
up & says, "Look,
whiskers, there's nothing
in your vocabulary
that even comes close to
anything in mine.
'Specially 'bout sustenance
& soul & silly things
like where & when & how to sleep.
So don't come here wanting
to play some lethal game
of hide & seek. Okay?
Oh, by the way, have you met
the yard's great black dane?
Hey Spike!"


IV. little chicken and the insanity defense

everyone's said for years
it's not that she's so weird
it's that everytime she passes
friendly ground she sends out sparks
& they've watched her natter on of how
no one knows a goddamn thing
& on and on of how it's always her
that's wrongly banished to the dark

besides, all she really said was
the world was failing all her tests
something fell from somewhere
it was blue and caused a briuse
surely psyches small and fragile
can be coaxed to understanding
strange things happen to most everyone
and we all know what it is to lose

one's head at an inauspicious minute
see the universe come crashing .. BANG
all of us can be forgiving can't we
even generous to one so meek and pure
now she knows the consequence of panic
can be counted on to just keep calm
and of course now she takes her medication
perhaps one day we'll find a cure


-beau blue