Amaze-Moe

Amaze-Moe

can fight with nothing but

his nasty big toe

Amaze-Moe

has a mustache that when trimmed

will grow

Amaze-Moe

can always win a fight and clobber

any old foe

Amaze-Moe

can solve the problems you have

and it won’t happen

(you get the idea).

Sketches

As I consider the way

you now have to sign your

name, crude and with

so much effort,

the true weight of your

accident finds me.

I rush upstairs to locate

all the self-portraits,

cartoonish drawings you

made, and I wonder

will you ever make them

again, after endless

surgeries, pins, and screws?

Meeting Celebrities

I dreamed something

indiscernible about meeting

Harrison Ford.  It involved

something about a plane.

I'm not sure who else

showed up, but I'm certain

there were other celluloid

heroes lurking nearby.

It was a long dream that

dovetailed into another

dream until I finally woke 

up after too little sleep.

The sudden urging to see

the flickering story of

robbing relics, or crossing

stars, or smiling in frame.

Ruins

For weeks, I watched

the building being demolished,

noting how the old 

passages I read so dearly

were going through similar

breaking down, now reconstructed

in a new, unexpected sound.

Pow

The cartoonish, floating

suggestion of conflict from

old 60s television shows.

If only life offered us so

many artistic flourishes

for moments of collison.

Uh-Oh, says dear

disappointment, Look

Out, the warning floating

over a friend who is

really a villain in a bad

disguise.

JD DeHart

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