Famous people die in threes.
Bacon grease goes in a coffee can under the sink.
Dogs should be free to roam all over.
Everything happens for a reason.
Throwing nail polish remover on the shower wall
and lighting it is safe because you can just
turn the shower on and the whoosh of blue flame
is totally worth the risk. Snow days are for science
experiments like turning marshmallows into
Styrofoam in the microwave. I don’t have an accent.
Styrofoam in the microwave won’t catch fire.
But if it does, it’s not radioactive.
Everything in the Bible is literally true
except for the parts that aren’t.
Being a latchkey kid’s not so bad.
This dance routine to Ray Conniff’s Christmas album
would make me famous if anyone saw.
Lying awake in a quiet house and knowing
beyond any doubt the Lord has returned
and I’ve been left behind—that’s just logic at work.
Eating Ding Dongs in secret, the calories don’t count.

Marnie Bullock Dresser lives in Spring Green with her husband and three cats. She taught for a very long time until they closed her sweet little UW-Richland campus. In retirement, she writes, serves as a caregiver for her mother, and hunts for that next loadbearing hyperfixation.