Day: June 24, 2023

wakes up hungrywakes up hungry

she lives in the kitchen paints her face
with paste she scrapes from cans sleeps on the floor in front of her stove

wakes up hungry stuffs her lovers into sausage skins
fries them up for breakfast they sizzle in her cast-iron pan

she turns up the heat her lovers pop and spatter spots on the walls
spots on the crystal she takes and shatters with her hands

fragments and blood with fragments drop into her mixing bowl
she makes her hands into fists grinds the glass

into a hash the color of what she’s hungry for
cooks everything until it’s done takes her meal hot

sopping up the drippings with gingerbread men
she breaks and blackens for toast

(Copyright 2023 by Tetman Callis.)

bossboss

please don’t stand so close to me, boss
not only are you attractive in your own right
you remind me rather much of someone with whom i was once
and not sufficiently long enough ago
a little too much involved with for comfort
either mine or hers
or for that matter either of our spouses
and i see by your listing in the office directory, boss
you have what is these days referred to as a significant other

please, boss
you’re standing too close, and i am sitting down

my attraction to you is not what we would refer to as platonic
you have a way of leaning over a desk which i have noticed

(Copyright 2023 by Tetman Callis.)

“I have a uniquely German capacity to vacillate between sentimentality and coldness.” – Tina Fey, Bossypants