Romantic comedy

I peel back some skin in search of text

But never mind, it’s only flesh

Signifying flesh

While mulling a ban on lab grown meat

Each word needs only one syllable 

and you can fill in the rest “I see where you are going with this”

“I’m going to stop you there”

Exiled at home

Keeping an empty inbox since 19**

Wink wink whisk whisk

What is the sound of an asterisk

One of the founders, emeritus

When in Rome

Like you’ve actually been to Rome

And you know what actual Romans actually do

On the Palatine wall after hours

There are fossils and graffiti

Bones, shells, tusks

Let me know when you’ve sorted

The alphabet on the refrigerator in the dark

If you speak my name aloud

Three times in the mirror

I’m listening

In a booth under the stairs

With an evolutionary predisposition to baby wails

And fingernails on blackboard

I’ve been learning to replace my silence lessons

With a standard distribution

It gets easier till it gets harder

And then when the edifice tumbles

Will it be ruin or accident

Archeologists meet cute