The Tyrannical Burden of Enjoyment

Enjoy fully each day, each minute, each second,
an adage whose burden I never did reckon

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She’s Got It All Wrong

“Eat when you’re hungry, stop when you’re full.”
What my mom says is clearly to blame.

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Semantic Mismatch

Being pregnant
but growing old,

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Facelifts (after Milton Friedman)

A wrinkling face is our tocsin.
Time will march on.

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Inadvertent Success

“Close companions think correspondingly….
My latest frill grabbing secret….

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Freudian Translation

Perhaps trying to inspire compliance among
Amerikaner and other English-reading types,

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A Stretch into Metaphoric Meaning

Socks are very malleable, n’est-ce pas?
Two minutes on the body turns them

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