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Under the Mattress |
I
A touring stand-up told me
check under the hotel mattress
“Comics, bar band musicians, traveling salesmen, speakers at tradeshows -
leave stuff for the next guy”
In the very center
where the housekeeping doesn’t look
when tightening the sheets
To date:
a great deal of pornography including a polaroid of a man with a glassy eyed exotic dancer
and a cookie monster puppet
a comedian’s promotional headshot (he may have masturbated to his own image)
a flattened joint in a Ziploc bag,
a pizza flyer with a rave review on a Post-it note
a paranormal magazine about Bigfoot and UFOs
(these last three may be realted in their way)
II
He also told me
look in the bedside Gideon-placed Bible
To date I have found nothing in these
Except once, written in the inside cover,
with careful penmanship trying to approximate the type print was
“This is a work of fiction,
any similarities to persons living or dead is purely coincidental”
Read more of Ben Shakey online at http://readanexcerpt.blogspot.com/