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A comic from Mike Allen
Creative Non-Fiction
by Gary Reddin
Keeping time
to the malicious
beating of a
dead horse.
Did you wash your mouth with acid?
The Old
Gods dance in
children’s heads at
Sunday school.
Your father knows
only that the sun has risen,
not where it may have
been last night.
Preying Mantis?
No,
Praying mantis.
Do you even know how to cook?
Spare the rod
spoil the child
–
Why would you do that?
I don’t want to know.
The schism is in
your brothers head.
We go to rivers floating like sailors!
The monsters in the
forest have made their
way into your heart
where they creep
like killers.
Losing faith
in the
plaster saints.
Pastor?
Yes,
Past her.
We will fall from the mountains again!
Spoil the meat
spare the child.
Presque Vu
by Gary Reddin
Something lingered on his tongue for a moment,
but he could not place the taste of the words.
A COMICAL LOOK:
“‘Life’s got reckoning to do’” by Mike Allen & James Coburn
NonDoc’s 2015 Sunday Funday series by Mike Allen, et al
Sunday Funday 12/20: A ‘tremendous opportunity,’ if you have the money
Sunday Funday 12/12: Don’t fear the weeper
Sunday Funday 12/5: The price of safety at home
Sunday Funday 11/29: Jesus and Vermin Supreme
A somber Sunday Funday 11/22: Requiem for Paris
Sunday Funday 11/15: Lady and the app
Sunday Funday 11/8: Pyramids and riverbanks
Sunday Funday 11/1: Bacon to be Born Again
Sunday Funday 10/25: ‘Words’ for the King of the Fall
Sunday Funday 10/18: We died happy, offline
Sunday Funday 10/11: ‘Seeing life in all its folly’
Sunday Funday 10/4: Land and time not in my backyard
Sunday Funday 9/27: New definitions, baseball and Short Order Poems
Sunday Funday 9/20: With others ‘losing,’ Trump says, ‘Hadouken!’
Sunday Funday 9/13: Kanye West and a man who smells
Introducing Sunday Funday from Mike Allen
