Category: Visual Arts

Comix

Sunday Comics

Oh my God you take the biscuit, treating me this way! Expecting me to treat you well no matter what you say. How can I turn the other cheek? It’s black and bruised and torn! I’ve been waiting since the day that I was born…Take the Sunday Comics and fill them up some way.

Comix

Sunday Comics

You wore white, smiling as you took my hand. So removed, you read Sunday Comics in France. Minutes passed with shallow words, years have passed and still the hurt — I can see you now, smiling as I pulled away.

Comix

Sunday Comics

Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration, but we know all Sunday Comicses are fake. Daddy only stares into the distance, there’s only so much more that he can take. (Many miles away something crawls from the slime at the bottom of a dark Scottish lake.)

Comix

Sunday Comics

Time pterodactyls over all the way I see, I notice fractals, clover, honey bee, that’s why I kinda cackle, it be funny, see, haha. I can’t imagine the hood in harmony, I mean, how can I read the Sunday Comics if he don’t read.

Comix

Sunday Comics

‘Sposed to get up for work and ride on through, but last week he paid me with a IOU. I get to work at 9, if he don’t pay me by 5, I’mma burn the place down by 5:02. Cause when we give ’em all of our Sunday Comics, they stack chips on the knot, we get pissed on a lot; we need a twist on the plot…