To the Clock

Deep fried kitchen mice
a delicacy to refried roosters.
Frying is the steam oyster's
way of dealing with the flue.

Whip the orange peels mercilessly
for they know how to fabricate metal
but won't paint the trees.
This angers the Tibetan meatloaf.

Blow away the wrinkles
with your gravy-powered whale.
Shredded fish don't matter
when the chive gnome lights his torch.

Burn the cold ice's grasp
when it does reach for the sign.
The sign, it sings, with fiery depression
for the owl does not see the cactus.

Fireside raft tag the smiling cantaloupes, for they do no harm,
otherwise, flee the oncoming turtle
destroy the soup, and all things sour,
for the memories will eat your taco

-The Painted Mushroom