Paul Handley

Monsters

Monster means like all get-out.
Giving one hundred and ten percent.

Monster Mash set an early and
insurmountable bar for Dr. Demento

Monster announces itself with a gleam.

Monster trucks are beloved by children.

Monster drinks can cause caffeine rage.

Monster pull-see truck above.

Monsters are misunderstood with formless souls
that are roasted molten and twisted by suspicion.

Monsters create heroes by defeat.

Monster can be innuendo.
My hoover is a monster.

Monster flattery-you were a monster out there.

Monster describes all people in certain criminal categories regardless
or in spite of a horrific upbringing or dashed mental status.

Monsters are the Other. 
Everyone else.

Monsters are little mischievous kids.

Monsters are Gulliver in Lilliput.
Monsters are created by a pain in the gulliver.

Monsters are handsome people that are disfigured
by an accident or style choices.

I’m going to go monster on you or I am afflicted by monster have yet to be defined

Monster elite like vampires have box seats
at the theatre, while Gorgons are shunned
partly due to disbelief there is more than one.

Monsters are not aliens. 
Or are they? Perhaps,
it depends on time of residence on earth.
Let’s go with half a decade.

A monster can be a prototype of the future.
An evolution jumper that we
recognize as a present threat.