As I look out of our front window, I see what remains of our late autumn garden. The quivering, pendulous poblano peppers hang from their branches like dark bats dangling from the ceiling of a cave.
Okay, Baboons, come up with some similes and other metaphors.
Trail Baboon 
The green leaves on the branches outside my window are wet and drooping down as if they know their days are numbered.
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i came gown with the crud for my daughters family weekend
on the way over my nose began dripping like a leaky kitchen faucet
saturday i recognized the foot on my chest syndrome that sounds my get to the medicine cabinet alarm
we went to whole foods and i got my meds
sunday on the way home i did the dead guy in the back seat imitation i am so good at on the rare occasion i get sick
in my bed healing up i am doing a sweat ball imitation my comgortor weighs and extra 12 pounds in the morning
sleep is a distant friend awaiting a return when the turbulent storm has passed
meanwhile a shell of a human being has fingers that tap tap tap at this miniature keyboard like a wren pecking at crumbs on the sidewalk
ahh life is one big minestrone filled with peas and tomatoes corn and potatoes you get to add spice and ingredients as you go
sometimes of your choosing sometimes as a reaction to the gods of destiny
curse you zuess make me whole again
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No chicken soup? Hope you’re better in no time, tim.
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he’s vegetarian.
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Looking at that bat, you must have some seriously hot peppers!
I have no poetry in me.
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The peppers aren’t that hot, they just look like hanging bats. They seemed to have all set at the top of the plant, so I had to stake up the plants so they wouldn’t tip over.
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so nice to have you back mig
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The kohlrabi look like space ships.
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“Close encounters of the kohlrabi kind”… (not mine)
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I, too, am home sick today with fever and chills. The cat curls up next to me like a grey puddle of warmth and purring.
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mine harassed me saying mee me as i curled tighter into my protectionist realm of semi neuroned tossing like a collander of wilted spinach
i see you’re moving me me me earlier eould say
hemingway at debbie’s feet bonnie at my side bala on the floor jumping up at the invitation to join the protoplasm in blob on the king size rest spot only job lurch back down upon first impulse of a twitch by another member of the menagerie
when i wake after8 hours of tossing and emitting bad kharma juice i realize ballpeen hammers had been in bed beating on me silently while i wasn’t looking
curse you zuess
then i go to pick up my friend wiley
whitley was a big time technical engineer with detroit devised and gm until his accident
he is ok but different
forgets what he was starting his sentence about who was the person in his vivid recollection
brain trauma
my balloeens wil be done soon
wiley will be happy but lees than whole from this day forward
i can’t bitch
i really cant
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Bonnie? Have you acquired a new pet?
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no and i don’t have a new spell checker either
i feel so punk i’m not proof reading at all
in order of their appearance
ernie (me me)
hemmingway
bonnie (alias bonnie)
nala
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Spellcheck doesn’t like Vinnie, I’m guessing.
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Where is Chris in Owatonna? I know from Castle Danger that he’s fond of metaphors. Come on, Chris, here’s your chance, have at it.
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Stems like dead weeds
Grasses snarled in the fences like wicked fingers clawing for life
Onions grasping for life like someone grasping for life
and i rip them out anyway like someone who wants an onion
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pearl white red yellow
i love onions
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Spanish green Vidalia…
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My personal favorite is “Onions grasping for life like someone grasping for life”, Ben.
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The Senate bill went down in flames like the Hindenburg.
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impeach mc cain blared the gong in the fog
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Was away all day – my brain is as agile as a person walking through hip-deep snow..
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjNgn4r6SOA
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