Tender Noodles
WAITING FOR THE SHUTTLE
Manny, Moe & Jack & Kate & Consuelo.
Pep Boys and Girls.
BLURRING THE LINE
You boundary destroyer you!
AN UNAUTHORIZED GUIDE
For sensitive people with sore eyes.
SNIPERS IN HOUSE COATS
Day/night, sweet/sour.
SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT
Across from the cemetery.
I’VE ALWAYS BEEN AFRAID OF TRYING GRITS
Eggrolled the pilot.
½ IN LOVE W/EASEFUL DEATH?
Try totally.
Head over heels.
CAUGHT
Kite string.
Fishing line.
HOW TO BE POPULAR
Eliminate belly fat.
DAD MADE US PROMISE
To spread his ashes at Nude Beach.
A REGIMENT OF SNEEZE GUARDS
Protecting the Portuguese monastery in Angola.
THE LIFE YOU CRAVE
Pull it low and tight across your seven of hearts.
PLANET HOPPING
Save up to 47%.
BOMB ASS
I love love love it.
THREE SOLSTICES
Original.
Suprema.
Deluxe.
A BIOSEMIOTICIAN NAMED ANEESA
You know how people walk with their elbows?
MARVELOUS OF STRENGTH
Etiquette and archery and coding.
FOR PEOPLE WHO
Which I am one of them.
BEE NOSE DIVES INTO CONCRETE PATIO
Buzzed flying is drunk flying.
PAIN IS SATAN
Hella paid.
CAPTAIN O’COFFEE
Hair surfing at Crested Butte.
BETWEEN WORCESTER AND SPRINGFIELD
Farm to table.
Cradle to grave.
Put some shorts on, honey.
IAINT IAINT IAINT
Agitated jay.
WOVEN HOME
Sometimes the koto must stay on mute.
MINI BAR WITH STROBE LIGHT FRONT
I think you need a beer.
SO UH IT MEANS UM
We really need to have that conversation.
Feeling a Certain Type of Way
YOU KNOW IT’S INTERESTING
The psychiatrist’s office is on the second floor.
Above the liquor store
And cannabis dispensary
And donut shop.
WE ALL FELT A LITTLE BIT LIKE
How crazy is this?
THAT’S SO FUNNY
In fact now that I think about it.
OF COURSE THIS
This bad boy.
SO IT WAS JUST
I don’t know.
BIGGER THAN YOU WOULD THINK
In a franchise way.
EXACTLY
But here’s the thing.
HOW DID I DEAL WITH THAT?
I dealt with that by being like I love you.
PART OF ME HOPED FOR
Five-year zero-percent financing.
HE’S LIKE
Oh man.
AND ANOTHER PART OF ME
Wanted the chocolate swirl.
YOU JUST HAVE TO KIND OF SIT BACK
Shooting subconscious rapids.
Right?
OH NO
No no.
It’s just the one.
THEY SAY
You know.
AND AT THE END OF THE DAY
Fingers crossed.
Ornithology
MINERVA SAID STICK IT IN
The refrigerator.
So I stuck it in
The refrigerator.
BRABANTIO WAXED RATHER WROTH
Worried about missing rewards points.
JUN AND I AND TUNDE
Had more uncles than you can imagine.
URGENTLY PAGING
Natalie Steel.
IS ZOLTAN THE SINGLE BLENDED MOCHA?
You’re the single blended mocha.
UBERING OVER
Cousin Birch and Aunt Kinzie.
EVERYBODY WAS THERE
Marque and Esmeralda and everybody.
CHERRY
Everybody loves them some you.
I CALLED FATOUMA
I’m like Fatouma I’m not going to be in today.
VLAD
Invented an ecofriendly herbicide.
AND I EVEN TOLD ANGELIKA
I said ask Juan Carlos about that.
WELL I’D ALWAYS HEARD
It was Louie.
ME AND VLAD
We’re old friends but.
HEY HEY BUT ANYWAY SO
Minerva Rivera.
If you’re reading this.
NO NOT CHIO
That guy in the corner.
He’s notorious.
RED AND YELLOW BLACK AND WHITE
They are precious in my sight.
Randy wuvs da widdle burdies of the world.
Although his sequences and verses find themselves in the poetry section, Randy Stark’s work might not be poetry in the usual sense of the word. These statements guide his writing: 1. As simple as possible, and then simpler. 2. “In every case the effect must be vivid, instantaneous and unmistakable.