Some Music

Some music is coffee
Don't talk to me before I have it

Some music is wine
But pair it properly

Some music is beer
I want it straight off the tap

Some music is cola
Effervescent adolescence

Some music is milk
I feel it in my bones

Some music is scotch
An acquired taste

Some music is iced tea
Could I get a refill?

Some music is bottled water
A prepackaged scam

Some music is bourbon
Smooth as a summer breeze

Music is water
Most of my life is covered with it

UP A CRITIQUE

Critics critiquing
Critics' critiques.

RECITE

Quiet reading can skip over
Things that the tongue would trip over.

ON TURNING ANOTHER YEAR OLDER

Birthdays must come
And they must go,
Which one's the existential
Oh, no?!

ECCL 4:6

One open hand in silence
Covers two fists in violence.

READER RESPONSE

Those epic works are such a scam.
Read one? I couldn’t give a damn.
I think I’ll stick to the epigram.

FOUR SEASONS

In spring love is the call.
Summer echoes lust.
Then fall is my fall.
And winter is my dust.