Two-Stroke Sonata

Skeletal neck is

enveloped in veridian dyed cloth

Mr. Remora drove a rusty motorcycle, a

'66 Sears Allstate 250,

listened to sentimental waltzes on homemade acetate, lived in a cabin made from freight pallets covered in metal sheets from a local newspaper.

Dead tree borrows leaves from circumambient flora

Mr. Remora had no children. When he heard that the Department of Agriculture, Markets and Food was subsidizing low-income earners to neuter pets,

he rode to the vet on his Allstate in a strategically altered dog costume,

presented food stamps as proof

of eligibility, and was promptly sterilized.

Lonely tree streaks gray ink over

watercolor wash of green