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| slantwords.com/07_06_09.html | This is the third intervention / we have had for his drinking problem, / if he could just stop eating everyone and listen. |
| slantwords.com/07_07_08.html | You tell me koi fish only get as big as their pond. / I tell you my heart is only as big as your two cupped hands / pressed against my chest. |
| slantwords.com/07_09_09.html | And there we were, / looking out across the rise and fall of the ocean, / moments before she pushed me in. |
| slantwords.com/07_10_08.html | Every parking garage I walk past / reminds me of so many low budget zombie films / and a few pornos. |
| I hope you realize / just how stupid you all look / when you try to dance like us. | |
| Every time I look up at those buildings / I wish I was Spiderman or Batman / Just so I could watch you in the shower. | |
| slantwords.com/07_13_09.html | At the time, / he seemed like a fair trade / for ultimate nachos and a chicken burrito. |
| slantwords.com/07_14_08.html | He thought the clouds meant something, / but really the sky was just having / a bit of diarrhea that day. |
| slantwords.com/07_16_09.html | He spent year after year / flipping each cube / to find the perfect thing to say to her. |
| slantwords.com/07_17_08.html | Buzz felt gypped. The pamphlet distinctly said / hot chicks and wild parties, / but nothing about certain death in a sand storm on mars. |
| In the future poetry will only be in museums / piles of similes and metaphors / and we won't bother to pay the $13.50 to get in. | |
| Sometimes I think / if I had known she was going to be this high maintenance / I would have turned her into firewood years ago. | |
| slantwords.com/07_20_09.html | And this is where / we buried your father / until he apologizes for telling me I look fat. |
| slantwords.com/07_21_08.html | Wishes aren't supposed to be bought or sold, / but believe it or not / pennies don't go far in the wishing world. |
| slantwords.com/07_23_09.html | After eight successful games of parachute / the stranded survivors / began to play Lord of the Flies. |
| slantwords.com/07_24_08.html | After Captain Kirk retired, / he spent his days dreaming of green women / and feeding space squirrels in the park. |
| Being known as nature's French tickler / has its advantages / and disadvantages. | |
| They say she can make all your dreams come true / or rob you blind, / but all lady luck ever gave me was syphilis. | |
| slantwords.com/07_27_09.html | Everyone said that living near it / would cause health problems, but they / are all jealous now that my kid has superpowers. |
| slantwords.com/07_28_08.html | By the time we got the futon there / it was already too late. / What the fuck am I going to sit on now? |
| slantwords.com/07_30_09.html | He wasn't sure where in the world / Carmen Sandiego was, but he knew / she had a shitload of frequent flyer miles. |
| slantwords.com/07_31_08.html | I would make you breakfast, / but I don't own any pots or pans / or even live here for that matter. |
| I remember it all like it was yesterday / that big black piano, / my tiny white fingers. | |
| I had one chance to make the ransom call / but I chickened out / and decided to keep you forever. | |
| slantwords.com/08_03_09.html | Ever since Betty ran off with that shark / Frank became an avid fisherman, / quietly wondering what she saw in that sea dog. |
| slantwords.com/08_04_08.html | Well, it's not my fault you can't read a map / and now we are completely lost. / Well, it's not my fault you were adopted. |
| slantwords.com/08_06_09.html | And that's how they found your father / in the bushes, with a raccoon, a bottle / of gin, and a smile as big as the moon. |
| slantwords.com/08_07_08.html | When the highway split / he tossed a coin and hoped / for the road leading home. |
| She wanted to use our real names, / but that took all of the fun out of it for me / so I decided not to pay her. | |
| They say all that sparkles is not gold / especially when the dog / gets into the glitter again. | |