4 poems || Hugh Tribbey

KITTENS PETITION CONGRESS

Kittens petition Congress for better cheeseburgers.

Kittens get video makeovers, bringing cute to a whole new level.

A Congressional baseball game frees kittens.

Readers sound off on kittens.

For free online cat games, 12-year-old girls throw kittens to their deaths.

A flapper kills a kitten in a fit of rage.

Firefighters play kitten ball for exercise.

Congress should regulate violent games.

Congress rescues a deadline from a 38-mile car ride in a wheel well.

Cats hate Congress even more.

Teen cats pass a bill to end the shutdown.

NYPD shoots a Guardsman who threw a kitten in front of a car.

CONFEDERATE ICE QUEEN

Yellow Dun Avero

challenges the Memphis Queen

of the 24-hour front desk

to a horse game.

Aboriginal access to engineering

proves cold enough for thick ice.

Poised and cool

the Queen of the Modern Soap Opera

cuts Lee’s supply lines.

The Ice Queen was King Hussein’s friend

many years ago.

The Snow Queen and the Pea are

too hot for Swamp Gas.

With their Black Label and white lies, 

the Feds investigate Redneck Day.

Incapable of breaking sea ice

with the warm air of June 1860,

a Civil War buff  in Houston

joins Seward on the River Queen.  

BAD ENTITY

Bad Entity rolls ambiguity (read as immaculate non-urban drum majors).

Unexcelled refinement necks with evasion to eliminate the luster of attached labels.

Under novocaine events blur eurhythmic, a blintz twilight.

Drug legislation is one tent—redistributing dog emotions, encouraging reports, and shooting wimp alligators.

Enema acts lurk.

TIN LACK

tin lack below tail of peso.

outside wimp crunch but lack sorties, stilts

as tin smote below rollers and spores and lobster

suck between blunder, princess simper and squander wimp.

and blunder smote on top of peso of gorilla through spores

but rollers flack in slice, handcream squander out

handcream.  suck through crud, lube glorify amid peso.

lurk within princess, rollers swish, glorify under Islamization

and over lube, lube crow outside stilts.

spores simper out of Islamization as lobster, smote beside lube

but sweep beyond slice, graphite jimmies under graphite.

stilts simper on top of piss as squander out crud.

spores crunch beside lobster.  lurk beside graphite and

lurk blunder over crud, crud suck as if tin.