precedence planning
m me
meg mega pri prince princess MEGA-PRINCESS
cinderella
I’ll trip you & break your hip
snowwhite
I’ll melt your snow
pocahontas
I’ll unfeather you
lea
I’ll unbraid your bun
still I
bend to the queen
i god
save Victoria
beware
beware of the Mega-Princess
daddy
dotting when I crankied awake
a
princess gets a prince:
to meet the prince
to crown princess
to move-in to a castle
to
live princessly ever after
pity
I’m princess not Queen
I claim
more than commoners
I don’t
do that
i can’t
serve myself
I will
be served:
carry
me down 23-stair-stories
when there’s a 3 a.m.
fire alarm
I’d rather burn than walk
ambulance
me to the ball
when my heart stops
I’d
rather die than waiting room wait
I
poison the queen
QUEEN
QUee Que Qu q
the truth grows up and sideways
the hyperion sequoia sempervirens California
tree grows 316 feet up
the graviplant German tree grows 140
centimeters sideways
one day the horizontal trees will grow to
the vertical trees and
make a trunk bridge over the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans
not today
today the up and down trees reach for the
sun-rays
today the side-by-side trees recline into
hammock lies
the
history of one self-endangered species
cave
you with a wood club
pump
breast milk for a paystub
march
of the male monarchs
sweat
life by check marks
rise
republic
spit
transmits plague in public
curve a
vertebra planting a field
bile
launches through a windshield
curl of
the dictator moustache
Sylvester
urine suffering succotash
harvest
a field ride a tractor
uranium
blood nuclear reactor
watch
drive-in-movie from outer space
race to
end the human tear race
if the
earth loves itself, the earth won’t need humans
i’ve
fallen in love with how humans origin about me
2,000
years humans still arguing big bank / evolution
hmm the
debate is over
i was
there
i won’t
tell
i’ve
fallen in love with my tectonic plates falling and rising
one
high-tide a Pacific ocean wave surface
next
low-tide a Hawaii island
next
tsunami a volcano island
my
atmospheres never fit for more than 10,000 years
i’ve
fallen in love with blue whales on my blue planet
can’t
do a country blue
still
hoping one revolution will
rotate
me to the blues
can’t
cry or feel sad
i’ve
fallen in love with one ozone hole
at my
pole winds are heaters
am 1
side / pm 1 side
next
rotation earth catapults
out of
the ozone and takes Jupiter as a lover
the
ghost answers
who
ghosted ghosts say boo?
musta
been Casper who gots better things to do than boo you
who
ghosted humans come from ash?
musta
been tokin’ a lot of trash
who
ghosted humans won’t return to ash?
musta
been Dante who loves to dance limbo
who
ghosted you don’t have to be dead to be a ghost?
musta
been your facebook un-friended friend
Robert Fleming lives in Lewes, DE. Published in United States,
Canada, and Australia. Member of the Rehoboth Beach, Eastern Shore, and Horror
Writer’s Association. 2022 winner of San Gabriel Valley CA broadside-1 poem,
2021 winner of Best of Mad Swirl poetry and nominated for Pushcart Prize by
Ethel Zine and FailBetter and double nominated for best of the net by Devil’s
Party Press. Robert’s writing is a mix of Robert Frost and Dr. Seuss.
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