I should also say that I telephoned Representative Weiner’s DC office and urged him to fight for his seat. After watching this hilariously ordinary exchange, though, I don’t know. I sort of feel like I want more imaginative sex talk from our leaders.

Thanks to everyone who played this round of Everyone’s Favorite Online Collaborative Poetry Game™ – Exquisite Corpse: woofpup, wescobear, guiser1, badgerpdx, charliebearnj

Homemade cherry preserves
in a peanut butter jar
sit alone on the counter,
dazzling and daring,
longing to kiss the morning toast.

Smoke from Auntie Catherine’s tiparillo
hangs in the air.
She sits alone, with the faint smell of bleach and pectin.

A slice of watermelon pickle
received in a jar from Felicity
sits dribblingly on a sun-parched tongue.

Haverford!
Only four short stops from Pennsylvania Station
But now so long ago.

Thanks to everyone who played this round of Everyone’s Favorite Online Collaborative Poetry Game™ – Exquisite Corpse: rootbeer1, badgerpdx, phredd, charliebearnj, broduke2000, and furrbear (x3)

Rain, rain, go away
The cherry blossoms fallen
Bees don’t fly when wet

Showers make nightfall
the cherry blossoms fallen
Our blanket is made

Forgot the Beano
The Cherry blossoms: fallen
in pink disarray

I threw him into my shower
His Cherry blossoms: Fallen
It was his first experience with me.

supine, cheek exposed
the cherry blossoms, fallen
burning passion sated

only memories remain
the cherry blossoms, fallen
shower removes all sign

reach out, pull love near
the cherry blossoms, fallen
splendid smile of bliss

Thanks to everyone who played this round of Everybody’s Favorite Online Collaborative Poetry Game™ – Exquisite Corpse: bearginner, labeartorycub!

Green eyes
stare at me
through
the rising steam
of morning coffee

why so early?
they seem to ask
it’s cold outside
and the bed’s still warm

We retreat
To snuggling
and let the coffee steam
Dissipate

Thanks to everyone who played this round of Everybody’s Favorite Online Collaborative Poetry Game™ – Exquisite Corpse: Ed and Franco, and Lauren Weber!

Ginger and spice make
Warm Gingerbread Men Baking
The house fills with scent

Wizened old woman
Warm Gingerbread Men Baking
Fancy one, Hansel?

Needs and desires
Warm gingerbread men baking
Satisfy my mouth

Everybody’s Favorite Online Collaborative Poetry Game™ – Exquisite Corpse! Ed and Brother Duke.

Spent like a jack o’lantern,
sitting too long on the porch,
collapsing.

remembering remnants of times,
not so long past;
and of loves fading away.

I once had a candle,
And gold macrame,
But now I’m an exquisite corpse,
By the way.

Thanks to all who played this round of Everybody’s Favorite Online Collaborative Poetry Game™ – Exquisite Corpse:

chuck, Ed, phreddd, dre, broduke, and Mike.

Hidden Sunshine, like a shuttered window pane,
Behind clouds, expansive and black
where waits, love’s exquisite joy
the garden, to those who seek such a thing, most visible
If only day was night, like Tarzan when he found his Jane
We embrace among rustling branches.

Thanks to everyone who played this round of Everybody’s Favorite Online Collaborative Poetry Game™ – Exquisite Corpse: chuck (harley), guiser1, and charliebearnj.

We got another good group of contributors to Everyone’s Favorite Online Collaborative Poetry Game™ – Exquisite Corpse: from livejournal,

wescobear

Below His Waistline
Tangled Curly Golden Hair
Beckons Attention

pgdudda

Smooth long razor strokes
Tangled curly golden hair
A weekend’s keepsake

mark_monroe

Salt and Bleach and Sweat,
Tangled Curly Golden Hair;
He Forgets My Name.

badgerpdx

From where comes this here
Tangled Curly Golden Hair
One labradoodle.

and from Facebook:

Steven Szydelko at 5:50pm July 6

Countless Teenage Walls
Tangled Curly Golden Hair
Rest In Peace Farrah

John Hitchings at 2:25pm July 6

Reached Into His Jeans
Tangled Curly Golden Hair
Could Not Find Much Else

Thank you to everyone who played Everybody’s Favorite Online Collaborative Poetry Game™ – Exquisite Corpse: from Livejournal: steven_homer, askaniascendant, and from Facebook: Robert Ruiz, Erica Bearden, John Clizbe, and Steven Szydelko.

Fur, belly and beard
A bear cub flashes his smile
And thus I am his.

Blue eyes shine like light
A Bear Cub Flashes His Smile,
The Flirting begins…

A Sea of Faces
A Bear Cub Flashes His Smile
Dentist Hands Him Card

A toothless grin
A bear Cub Flashes His smile
Cheeks flush pink

Shirtless Fur Ocean
A Bear Cub Flashes His Smile
Lazy Bear Begins

Gray Hair Gets Noticed
A Bear Cub Flashes His Smile
Where Did The Time Go

Thanks to everyone who played this round of Everyone’s Favorite Online Collaborative Poetry Game™ – Exquisite Corpse: Gord R Reece (gordreece), charliebearnj, allanh.

Passing their time
under lumpy gay covers.

I want to fill you up
on savory imperfection

on candied yams of desire
and mashed potatoes of lust.

I want to cover you in raisins
and turn you into trail mix.

Thanks to everyone who played this round of Everyone’s Favorite Online Collaborative Poetry Game™ – Exquisite Corpse: Steve (rootbeer1) and Jack (qbear)

I told the waitress:
Cherry soda a-blossoming.
So she shook the can.

Made an ice cream float.
Cherry soda a-blossoming.
What a mess to clean!