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Pink Jellybug Mink


Published by C. Dennis Moore

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Copyright 2011, Charles Moore


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Pink Jellybug Mink II


There’s a hot answer that follows you

The question is incomplete

A dog that don’t bite

Or rainbows at night

The gorgeous Pink Jellybug Mink


The rivers have all turned to ashes

The mountains have started to sink

No new clues here

Just my rambling cheer

So what is Pink Jellybug Mink?


A cop in the hall & cracks in the wall

There’s a toy in the kitchen sink

The definition’s not clear

But you know there’s one near

Give praise for Pink Jellybug Mink


The pretty Pink Jellybug Mink

The beautiful Pink Jellybug Mink

The immaculate Pink Jellybug Mink


The songs you once sang never got wrote

There’s a memory on the brink

It’s a missing link

It’s whatever you think

Touch the Pink Jellybug Mink


A solid ghost that wails at dusk

Or a glass eye that won’t wink

A 30-day hour

A clockwork tower

It’s everything, Pink Jellybug Mink


It’s the same as a mistaken savior

It’s a pencil mark written in ink

An empty trunk

It’s flick and funk

The infinite Pink Jellybug Mink


The yellow Pink Jellybug Mink

The elusive Pink Jellybug Mink

The somewhat Pink Jellybug Mink


Pink Jellybug Mink Zero


Play a game of pink with me and

Inflame everyone we betray so

Noisily and so brashly out

Kinship is lost to the world


Jeer to the jelly bug with you

Enthusiasm intact before it’s too

Late, before they

Lock away our joy so we can no longer

Yell about the wonder of losing our

Burden of life and

Uncover every

Grand design we’ve ever dreamed up.


Mister Grin is so

Irreverent, taking himself to the

Ninth level of mink, reducing out

Karma to nothing.


Zone him out and

Equip yourself with zeros

Rolled into ones, safe from the

Order of chaos that only the pink can instill.



Pink Jellybug Mink III


I paint on Velcro wings and I fly right out of my mind

A plastic interrogation won’t help, for I’ve got nothing to hide

Sometimes the wind runs through my eyes

And sometimes I die in the sky

The Pink Jellybug Mink makes the rules and by them you must abide.


The Pink Jellybug Mink paints me a song, a charcoal-soul “Swing Low”

And the King of All Dreams is a razor-metal singe with a halo that continues to grow

His pretty, broken machine is nothing below

And it ruffles my wings and I flow

The Pink Jellybug Mink and the razor-king Dreamer encounter each other, and know.


There’s a bald baby boy branded in blue with confusion etched into his skin

He and another, much yellower one, are far from being a sin

I take flight with him

And watch everything spin

The Jellybug Mink sits to the side, cries, and wonders again.


The Pink Jellybug Mink loves all the world

The Pink Jellybug Mink is a brown-bobbed girl

The Pink Jellybug Mink and a smiling curl

The Pink Jellybug Mink and a downward swirl.



Pink Jellybug Mink IV


On those occasions when you’re playing the tease

Or the next line doesn’t come with such ease

I’ll stand outside with my face to the breeze

And recite a couple lines that sound like these


Waiting for the gentle pain

I contemplate the deepest stain

And cleanse myself in winter rain

Then escape to somewhere just less sane


Buying a new life, or touching a star

Remembering a fight by your right shoulder scar,

Or a passionate fuck in my big black car,

And we’ve still got fireflies trapped in a jar


All of these things are what I like to think

Will make everything else settle and sink

To the edge of all real and slip over the brink

So nothing is left but Pink Jellybug Mink


Pink Jellybug Mink: “17”


It’s there on the brink

Make sure you don’t blink

Two glasses clink

And you take the drink

Discover the fink

Making lies with ink

Untangle the kink

Secure the link

Love them mink

It’s always pink

Inside the rink

Never to sink

Once to shrink

Sometimes to stink

If that’s what you think

Notice the wink

Of Pink Jellybug Mink


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C. Dennis Moore is the author of over 60 published short stories and novellas in the speculative fiction genre. Most recent appearances were in the Absent Willow Review’s Best of 2009 anthology, as well as the Vile Things anthology, the first issue of Death Rattle Magazine and in The Horror Zine. Future work will be appearing in Our Haunted World. His historical science fiction romance fairy tale novella “Epoch Winter” is scheduled to appear from The Drollerie Press. His other smashwords titles include Icons to Ashes, Obsessive Compulsive Dismemberment, Short Stuff: 5 Stories, Cuneiforms, Picking Scabs: The LongRidge Stories, Camdigan, Renovation Coming Down the Mountain, Revenge of the Roach King, Maggie Andrews Gets the Facts, The Further Adventures of A, and his short story collection Terrible Thrills.




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