1

INSANE PROP

He doesn't like our kind

He told our attorney

At a meet where he offered

$110,000 for our 1 acre

Arroyo trailer trash land

We still live here

The music sunlight makes

On Maria's forehead is

My frequent escape hatch

A cottonwood tree is the last mirror

I'll ever see

A voice underground says

Sit here with me

I'm dead I want you to know

What it's like down here

I think I've been there before

I'll listen

I think I'll go again

 © JOHN KNOLL

2

COW CANDY

Razors came yellow with thumbs

I want to bore you

With dried muffins of symbolist flour

If I say

Cow candy

Think

Communist hamburger

If I say

sunshine

Hear Mozart

Mexican food can't be faked

(German accent)

Basic black nylons on ordinary legs

make a stop sign glow

Confucius say:

If wife is having a bad baking day

don't buy her an apron