This week’s assortment!

5737.
That recurring nightmare?
I make it happen.
My methods remain my own. Please no questions.

5738.
You promised me
The financial consultant would vaccinate us
against an infection of Angry Creditors

5739.
a computer translating pencil marks
ancient pictographs! it thought, what a discovery!
But no, it was just a first-grader’s handwriting

5740.
yeah it’s me
along with my six million problems.
Generosity is what holds society together.
I think it’s my duty to share.

 
5741.
I attend an evening soiree
full of faces I’ve known for years –
another PTA meeting in the school cafeteria

5742.
acres of psychedelic pink cardboard roses
fizz and nose-tickle scent
I sneezed. The vampire turned his head.

5743.
Good morning Mr. Stevens
I said to my granddaughter’s paper doll
a stout man wearing glasses and a Hawaiian shirt
lounging against my kitchen counter

5744.
so it’s come to this
here we are hiding in the silverware drawer. Quick,
someone’s coming. Throw me the pickle fork. En garde!

5745.
There is no such necklace
not now not at seven o’clock not ever.
I tell you, I bought you a bathrobe for your birthday.
That’s it.

 
5746.
watching as the extremely competent Dr. Cluck
stapled and repaired our stubborn Grandma
the Angel of Death realized
he’d be driving home an empty bus this time

5747.
according to your father,
a fashion plate of the 1970’s if there ever was one
a baby blue tux flatters just about anyone

5748.
the guy
taking in the odors of dinner at the BBQ shack –
how I wish that were me right now

5749.
I fell asleep
the fluctuations and the forgetting
embedded in my dreams

5750.
the shy zipper
crouched down
behind the pillow piping

 
5751.
she swims three miles upriver
holding the pizza box in her teeth
and you forget to tip her?
Get your suit on. You can still catch her.

5752.
The dinosaur made short work of your grandmother
or so he thought
Now he’s headed for the dentist
and she’s wearing his teeth around her neck

5753.
a pitter a platter
a whole lot of splatter
the cat trips Mom bringing in the dish of spaghetti