"Unless"

The sweet pepperbrush shrub

Prized for its late-Summer blooms

Impresses blokes at your yacht club

   (unless they prefer the legumes).

November 4, 2026

"Chick"

When you play the bass pizzicato

Because you forgot the bow at home

You might find yourself inamorato

With the chick who came all the way from Rome.

 

November 4, 2026

"Murderess"

Murderess at the wheel

   (don't tell me she didn't know)

Though she had sex appeal

   (all died under duress).

November 4, 2026

"No"

Unless a song

   mentions Mexico

      it's got no place

         to go.

November 4, 2026

"Versus"

This is a spiritual battle

Not people versus people

So let your guardian angel

Guide you from the steeple.

November 2, 2026

"Destroys"

Truth has all power 

Getting back to it

Destroys all.

November 2, 2026

"Apology"

I had my own mythology

Heroes and demigods

I say this without apology

For my surreptitious nods.

November 1, 2026