Movie
by Pat A Physics
When you have gone to the movie almost every day for a year, and the concessions girl
knows your first name, that’s when it’s time to consider your career. Ask her on a …

Dirty Drink
by Pat A Physics
Everyone was shouting for me to ride the pony, but I was too
busy with my new found elixir. I had handed all of my money
to this small Asian princess and had …

White Vest
by Pat A Physics
The vest felt tight on my back.  I wanted to take it off, but for some reason, I knew
that my guts would fall out if I took it off at this …

Flying T-shirt
by Pat A Physics
Thrust pack bent up stair castle without limitation for pond scum
you are adding up your tolls in a vat of preserved air particles.
Labels are peeling off by themselves in your underwear …

Stained Felt Mat
by Pat A Physics
Bright felt was spread along the dashboard.  It was there so that it would not get so hot
that Bunny couldn’t steer her car.  There were mascara prints on the felt …

Radical Buzz
by Pat A Physics
Come melt with me in the knife rays of the mid-afternoon scream
because you are all frozen, muted into a sheet of language when
you should be sheets of music on fire in …

Last Night on Earth
by Pat A Physics
You were laughing with your hair in your face, and I felt quite handsome
in my pressed suit. Walking aimlessly in our party clothes, we danced
for an interval. …

Rectangular District
by Pat A Physics
Drowsy thoughts of wind socks whipping.
Aerial photos from magazine clipping…
Driving the plane with only one knee
on a trip to merry mountain-scape
crinkled into distant shadow dappled cirrus
clouds fallen like your stomach feels.
When …

Review of “Kick That Habit” by Peter Liechti (Originally released in 1989)
by Pat A Physics
I saw this movie at Cinematexas while I was a sophmore at UT in 1999. I was turned on to …

Do Not Pass
by Pat A Physics
There’s nothing worn out about these shoes except that they break
with the bending and stooping of my endless hours in the hot tent
and the granules of sand lodged through out …

Salad Days
by Pat A Physics
I freed up some time so that we could talk. This involved letting
a hot air balloon drift unhindered into the swirling, misty sky and
hitting my true love in the nose, …

Hush
by Pat A Physics
Before you start making your noise and walking your way, know
that the spirits of your relatives are tracking your every move.
You knew they were there long ago. It was this distant …

The Rain Water
by Pat A Physics
And smiting my parented foe with attendence
on the subject of most tearful past-tense elections,
the professor of polls and abacus briquettes
seething in his striking tree hutch apparatus
chewing the figs he purloined …

Plasticized Snoot
by pat a physics
If you take me apart piece by piece,
arrange my spine not in a linear pattern,
but circular. You can spell things out
with my bones, paint with my blood,
and use tendons to …

The Company Picnic
by pat a physics
The freezedry technique they used was quite convenient for someone who
would jacknife around the globe.  And the selection of foods they offered
might razzledazzle even the taste makers who discredit this …

one hundred and first
by pat a physics
Appealing light was making its way through my room.
The quality spoke to me, and told me everything I know.
That there was a snag in the way things are run …

all bets are off
by pat a physics
It stirred something deep within the snowman version of me
to see you at work, pissed, with too much mascara on
while everyone was at the barn, drinking and dancing.
Thrusting a …

Old Burber Greaves
Written by Sam, Pat, Gene, and Rosemary by playing writing roulette on 12/28/09.
Tori Amos was sick. She had a light heart that whimpered when
squeezed. Lenny Kravitz held her hand gently. …

As Cool As I Could
by pat a physics
Both pans were precariously leaning toward the edge of the counter
when I noticed the phone ringing.  My dead wife would tell you
that I always answer the phone, even …

The Launderer
by pat a physics
At night, when I hold the bag over my shoulder,
I need to put it down because it is bulging with clothes.
Make it all evaporate, turn the clothes into air.
Gloves into snow …

unfair mousse
by pat a physics
Hair can tell you most of what you want to know.  Thomas Gluckford’s head
was a gray fan in the back and a slick, sewer rat in front.  Tom smelled worse
than the …

finding gene
by pat a physics
Where did Gene Wilder go? Is he in a suburban neighborhood making cocktails and flirting with the Golden Girls? I miss him. He is a beacon of truth. …

Pentagonal Radiance
by pat a physics
I was in the middle of eating a tall dessert in the lap of the laughing people
when my candlesticks were firmly stuck in the ground
for the drunken, frolicking big wigs to …

Melted Candy
by pat a physics
Today she was swirling a mixture of cognac and twilight
her skin shone like a seal
she asked us undo-able favors in the darkened foyer
while her pets went ballistic.
Her eyes were a child-actors …

The Octopus and the Ultra-Perm
by pat a physics
Grace. The tinkling of silverware is the dinner bell of my
universe. My subscription to your thoughts needs to be renewed
here at the table. False alarms …

Country Drive
by pataphysics
A thin wire fence was barely perceptible in the dark when
we pulled the car to the side of the road. I switched off the
headlights and listened to the rest of the music. …

Big Anthony
by pataphysics
A word bubble came out of a lamp post giving me directions on
where to get a good beer in town. Thanking the lamp post was
arduous. I had to sketch a thank …

25 Lighters
by pat a physics
My poor neighbor died yesterday from a heart attack and
I couldn’t stop myself from trespassing in his yard.  He
had all of these trees that were shooting out of these
chickenwire stone enclosures …

Oh! Head of Heads
by pat a physics
A gigantic head was looking at me today. There was no body,
only a head. The head was Hispanic and in pain. I wish I could
have thought …

Pie
by pataphysics
You are probably wondering about the clown nose. Well, I have my clowny side, you see. I’m not always a serious guy. Don’t say that you have seen this before. …