balloon dopes in jackboots

don’t tarry
or
sweet potatoes and garlic will grow
tentacles

secure all winners in the ballroom dormitory
high holy window-dressers forecasted

run away from winters and bamboo truncheons
please be sure to jump the jaguars jouncing jaffas

balm your balustrades
winnow your winnings
no person or dormouse allowed inside
after the show starts

a winkle nominated for the department of education
we’ve only just begun

we will fill you with cotton candy
we wil flounce about like maniacs

be afraid
be very afraid

What I’m Reading:

“In my long life of 82 years … there has hardly been a day when I felt more sad,” says Fraser Stoddart, a Nobel laureate who left the United States last year and is now chair of chemistry at the University of Hong Kong. “I’ve witnessed something that I feel is extremely bad, not just for the United States, but for all of us in the world.”

— Jeff Tollefson / “‘We need to be ready for a new world’: scientists globally react to Trump election win” / Nature