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Thirty Channels at Eleven O’clock in the Evening



Steamy flesh of the sultry tears where the emotions breathe swiftly

Mind controllers have white words on a black background

Suits and ties feel dead inside to live lives vicariously through poets

Horses in the city stampede over Lebanese Falafel stands

Tsunami pours over the Hitachi building while yuppies are on their lunchbreak

Muscles and sweat look more aggressive if a bloody fist breaks someone’s nose

Bogie hit a birdie on the third hole

Souls in the hole take control while smoking fat bowls

Shadows of his curly mustache are seen through the window

Many people’s clothes do not match when they think they look fine

He would love to die in an avalanche while snowboarding and playing guitar

She wanted to tie me up with her scarves and lick ice cream off my unit

La hermana spoke with a sexy accent since she was from Argentina

The roaches of fire burn and crawl over the flesh of senior citizens who are pro-lifers

Lawyers make the money off the victims who need it most

Soak the memories in a sponge and squeeze the excess water out

People without legs will walk over you in your dreams

Splitting the sky with the revelations of mankind produce the future while killing it

Simultaneously

If trees could talk they would make humans feel sinfully guilty

Lipids in her cheek made her look like a chipmunk

Racism would kill us all if the world was black and white

Koala bears tumble down grassy hills and roll into the lake when humans turn away

Many people would rather live their lives in a fictional world

This glass world is infinitely shattering at a sluggish speed

Bridges of words are the only poetic connections for some who read Sartre

He looked directly up at the sun as he walked alone in the vast desert

Policemen would not have jobs if it were not for criminals

A bald man should not wear a toupee

As our lives spin in circles of absurdity, we still have nonsense to fall back on



--Todd E. Jones

November 17, 1997