Tonight's Poet Corner: Hitched Abridging

Hitched Abridging
by Belinda Roddie


hitched abridging misfits
sitting at a turntable
drinking coffee from a funnel
tumbling through wordplay
a tinkerbelle-like mannequin
is playing with a toy ball
that bounces on the finish line
of g.i. joe toys' marathon

disenchanted souvenirs of
old forgotten juveneers
(a cross of buccaneers and
juveniles, if you don't get it)
but the pictures in their heads are much more
vivid when they talk about them
not when they pick up a paintbrush
'cause the apricot tones are too dull

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