Supplementary Challenge

Your body will steal
silver metals from your bones.
You must win them back.

Arthritis

Tom blew out his knees
after a lovely dinner.
Tom's knees are candles.

...

The path is empty.
Mercury is retrograde.
Something might happen.

...

Precise clarity
or clear precision? I still
struggles with these, too.

“Ma’am, we’re going to do this one more time, and then I’m going to treat you as though you were not here...”

Dark forest of law;
nameless immigrants vanish,
standing still as trees.

Look at it go

To aid Mexico,
Google expands flu mapping;
iris wilts in spring.

Non-performance-based

Layoffs this morning.
Fall for the leafy shakes of
meritocracy.

Rite now

Spring would understand
if I ran out / the nasal
passages of man

...

The improbable
falsely validates thinking
irrationally.

300 seasons

Enormous apples
odd thoughts, tow trucks, ripe summer
squash you with haiku

...

Again and again
and again and again and
again and again.

Snack Dragon Taco

When Spring stops being
a fickle bitch, we will be
open on Mondays.

...

How much do we know
of each other? Most females
have a clitoris.

Midtown east, lunchtime.

People offended
by rain: rain drops offended
by reflective panes.

Bailout Agency

Branded horoscopes
invite engagement engine,
wizardly finance.

What exactly are you saying?

The words of neighbors:
change flung at facial features.
We have homeless ears.

...

Concerning the church
and technology / questions
a'rise on Sunday.

Finally

It's not what's inside
anymore / than what's outside(?);
it's all between you.

Ghost writer

Paper factories
exhaust more than winter steam;
they eat babies, too.

...

In his Fall garden
heads dangle from bulbs. How did
your father escape?

Internet dating

No one wants to
grow old; date a gentleman
sporting a ball cap.

You're reaching, G.W.

I invent peanut
pills for headaches; I am George
Washington Carver?

Trimming service

The CO2 death
of the 6 o' clock subway;
plants root silently

The Slumlord disappointment

He won't let us up
after all these years. The lift
is down for repairs.

Teen heartthrob

High cholesterol
causes plaque in arteries
sooner than you think.

Then

After the collapse:
corporate aftermath; what
will the numbers do?

Now

The figures all work
out in metrics, collecting
their unemployment

...

You in the woods wave
a sign of caution; of trees
and bodies crossing.