I’m on a roll, but not a bagel. I’m not empty in the middle.
I’m an actor with a role, and a role model. 
I’m the hay I roll in, and the dough to make hay.




I’m in the bad habit of making bad puns from the signs that I see.
Kristina says, with patient forbearance, “Do another one, Dad. Entertain us.”
“I’m just reading the signs,” I say, and make another pun.
I say, “Is that enough?”
She says, “Oh God, please yes!”




The times are tough, the economy is bad.
People coming out of COSTCO are pushing carts only half full.


Trump is trying to explain things he doesn't understand to people who don't understand anything.


People get paid to answer questions.
Maybe I could get a job.





	Parting is such sweet sorrow

Don’t go!
I have to.
Take me with you!
I can’t.
Don’t come back!
I won’t.
Good bye.
You too.




The casino billboard says
Nobody does _____ like we do.
Trump stole it from them
who said it first. 




I keep reading the same signs
and interpreting them differently.




I’m a walking blog
speaking oracular.




I’ve graduated from simile
to metaphor.
So should we all.




Truck sign says Everest
and shows a poodle




No truck
just the cab
and the driver
hauling emptiness




Juneteenth
again




a vowel and a consonant
walked into a bar
got together
and made a word
that’s all there is to it




How can we forget
what we remember?

Easily.




It’s bad
but not the worst yet.
I can still see
the faces in the passing cars.




	Free Speech Law

I’m allowed
to be loud
I’m no minion
I have my own opinion
I speak truth
even from my long lost youth
my saber is my tooth
as I bite the neck forsooth




Rolling Hills Casino
it’s my current favorite
and I’ve never been there




Sign: Winners
	   Exit now

I’m staying on the road




The difference between
this and that
is two letters each




--We know how your mind works!
--I wish yours would.




Chaz taped the crack
in the windshield
It’ll hold
for now




Passing a field.
A horse or a cow?
What does it matter?




Aren’t we all?
Some of us are.




The truck says Altitude
and they spelled it correctly




Cuttin’ it close.
Is that a shaving metaphor
or the executioner?




Sometimes
I can’t stand being so happy
but I can get used to it
with a little help
from my friends




Why am I
so self-obsessed?
Who else
Have I got?




	TRUMP SPEAKS OUT

Let’s see now:
if I only target
blue democrat cities
because they’re my enemies
then I can skip my red cities
where the crime is


I’m rudderless
like a politician
looking for a cause
without a direction


You wrote me a speech
with big words I don’t use
to prove 
I can almost read
Forget whatever they mean


I don’t permit myself
to know
I’m the worst thing
I’ve ever seen
because my mirror lies


when you need money
talk to the people
who have it


The options
are rapidly diminishing
I call that progress




Enough with the Trump




Sign:
Move over or slow

That confuses me
because slow is
exactly when
you need to move over
one of the few times
it’s right
to move to the right




Hear it is again
passed back and forth
the poor couple sharing
one hearing aid
not sure in the room
who said what to whom




I’m a hot mess of goo
like a teething baby
goo goo
whatcha gonna do
when they come for you?




I’m tired of Trump
and I’m sick of him too
I can be and do two
things at once
can’t you?




I drink mostly water
just not enough




we pay government
to do the jobs
that need doing

cut the money
and you cut government
to the quick

what the hell
do you think
government is for?

Not to richer the rich.




`	Give a hoot

the big boot
in front of the OK Corral
don’t shoot
I know who
to give the boot




I used to could
probably still can
and can find out
if so




to court
is to try
to seduce

what are those Supreme Courters
trying to do
to us?




when I sit too long
in the seat of the car
and look through the window
like a pickle in glass
jarred by the sour
ways of the world
take me out quick
before I go bad
and sour turns bitter
and I’m sliced
on a plate
hors d’oeuvre
for the lunch
of the rich
to munch me down
like a son of a bitch




It’s not that I look
for these things to say
it’s that
they’re there