Creative Solution
A doctor from South Aldersgate,
when asked why he never does date,
said, "Dating’s a pain,
and so I’ll refrain.
Besides, I can make my own mate."
despite some warnings
he started the new device
and
dental mishap
vampire faces centuries
of just blood pudding
at his sentencing
vampire grows even paler -
life without parole
mining rights sold
the full moon becomes
only a crescent
Halloween costume -
werewolf considers options
but full moon decides
time travel mishap -
alternative history
no longer fiction
she suddenly recognized
the werewolf's cologne.
Prolific Stephen King
can make horror out of anything.
His wife fears what he'd do
if he tried to barbecue.
apocalypse comes -
our final embrace will last
an eternity
through the rubble
a three-legged dog carries
a tibia
robot's Valentine
card bears the image of a
mechanical heart
supernova -
on some planet are wise ones
following its light?
Life form,
so alien
people run from it in
terror, is itself so aghast
it flees.
on the asteroid
slow dancing
in fading Earthlight
trying to recall
the species at the cantina -
pregnancy test
alien banquet -
host's toothy smile reveals bits
of missing crewman
two moons
rise above the
lunatic asylum
inspiring the Martian inmates
to howl
snow on snow on snow –
spring on the new colony
still two years away
the calculations
off by a decimal point -
debris field explained
researcher turns on
interdimensional door -
Who’s that knocking?
blind date takes
unexpected turn
her tattoos move
watching as the clone
learns to ride a bicycle -
sense of déjà vu
A doctor from South Aldersgate (limerick) Weird Tales August/September 2006
alien banquet - Random Planets 2019
apocalypse comes – Scifaikuest AUG 2021 PRINT
at his sentencing - Scifaikuest November 2023
blind date takes - Scifaikuest November 2023
Clouds shrouding (saturne) - Scifaikuest February 2023
Halloween costume (werewolf) – Scifaikuest online, February 2023
Last words (saturne) - Scifaikuest February 2023
“life form” (cinquain) in Scifaikuest May 2018
mining rights sold” Random Planets 2019
mining rights sold Rochester Area Haiku Group 2020 Members’ Anthology
mirror with a painting (vampire teen) – Failed Haiku Volume 7 Issue 74 (February 2022)
New colonist (saturne) - Scifaikuest February 2023
on the asteroid - Scifaikuest February 2019
researcher turns on - Scifaikuest November 2023
Robot’s valentine - Scifaikuest, February 2017
snow on snow on snow – Scifaikuest AUG 2021 ONLINE
Supernova - Scifaikuest – online – February 2017
the calculations Scifaikuest AUG 2021 ONLINE
The thirsting (saturne) - Scifaikuest February 2023
through the rubble - Scifaikuest AUG 2021 PRINT
time travel mishap – Scifaikuest online, February 2023
trying to recall - Skifaikuest February 2019
trying to recall – Failed Haiku Volume 7 Issue 74 (February 2022)
two moons (cinquain) – Random Planets 2019
watching as the clone – Failed Haiku Volume 7 Issue 74 (February 2022)
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