Roger Palmer : Works on paper : Works on paper 2000 to Present

Roger Palmer

Works on paper 2000 to Present

Her least favorite had been mummified with her, and as the reanimation ceremony got under way, she was afraid the animal would wake up hungry before she did.

Self-portrait as a train station.

When your friend cannot swim and he notices you have wings.

Monster had often come to the county fair, stomped and collected a few flat cars, ate some circus animals, slapped open a house or two, and negotiated some respect. The year he was greeted by a wrecking ball of smoke and its companion fires. The cows in red gaffer tape made up to look like elephants with radiator hose trunks was the end game for any self respecting old school monster. The humans had grown enough monster on their own, in little puzzle pieces in their DNA. I parked my vehicle a mile back, I did not want to watch monster crying close up.

Hunters skull stuck to foot.

War between the milk maids and the dicks.

The sea congealed and brought her young and began to eat us.

Predatory birds with blue snakes in sharp air.

The extinct Rift Crows were skilled at startling the extinct Rift Possums into playing dead at their most out of balance moments, to get the easy feast below.

If we taught monkeys to butcher their own chickens would they then have souls like ours.

A blind monkey learns braille the very hardest way.

When the last of a species cups its balls and screams maybe we ought to sing along.

Wild west on the digital sea is circling a salty idea abut nearly nothing at all.

$When the fractured sky falls in on the two hemispheres of your deteriorating brain, rest assured among the last things to leave will be the memories of your dead cats.$

Vampire elephant.

Those who watch another kill.

Giants turn over houses to kill the people inside.

The Devil went out stomping barefoot with a flashlight so Shep shot him in the foot.

Artillery toad battalion.

Assassins in the bamboo drop from cocoons with sharp sticks but get carry permits for really bad ideas that are far sharper.

The nature of the fall from grace, adventurous turtle, secular bird.

A cat will make do!

Gunner town was a mix of hedge fund managers on the run, and dead shot high wire assassins in magnetic boots. If your cash runs away with the circus, you will be on a wanted poster, not a hedge fun manager.

Gunner town detail.

Dancing puppet fight stick.

The great leaders training camp had few survivors, but it had a very nice cemetery and no warning about the graduation drop off.

Giants are an easy target in a civil war.

Fruit for killers. The fruit of the coffin tree tasted like rigor mortis, crisp with a hint of things to come.

Fishing for guns at the fair.

The only evidence of ancient aliens visiting earth was a fall of giant coprolites that only stank when it rained.

An ambulatory turd teaching his off spring to be just as big a shit as he is.

Crispy cowboy, crispy sheep, crispy little Bo Peep begin to believe in global warming.

Cat and dog argue about who is better suited to joust the loud pink windmills and the cat lost.

Camping on the edge of the great big eye.

Carrying the dead cook while starving.

A heavily armed Red Cross might be anti venom to trickle down economics.

Blood clot furniture should be very stick in wet weather.

Bad men, nasty lawyers, stale bread, drawn with a wine cork.

Wine cork brush for bad men drawing.

Boots on the ground of the town.

Bad men grow on trees and when ripe drop with a double thumbs up.

Big egg little egg, hatchery with a meal plan

Big dogs ask a little dog to go down a hole with eyes in it.

A wartime eye stalks domestic eyes regurgitated during peacetime.

When assholes force you to go to sea with your last bananas.

You are crawling blindfolded down a ladder to your grave when you discover some asshole has planted cactus along the way.

When you are in something else's aquarium.

When buzzards cannot eat their own.

They fed their own kind to him and he liked to savor the hands because he could taste what they had touched and the freedom of where they had been.

Caged rapist in hell visited by a woman.

New mastodon drawn with a toy truck and a stick. What if the things we extirpated came back, and a grand death needs a shoe shine and we are slaves to the idea of reparations.

Dealer ship for porta jail with salesmen out front.

A rehabilitation center for giant night feeding insects was a hard sell in suburban neighborhoods.

Green peas and ham.

The siamese twins who fought on different sides of the civil war at the same time, were not buried with the rest of the war dead.

Why dogs are afraid of sonic booms that wake the dead.

Old erector set in a box, 'the crawling carnival of life

The fat cat bus had a flat, and because of the fire we were loath to help them change the tire.

Confusion one second before mindless rage.

Possum drawn with a stick

The small animal tannery at the headwaters of the Squirrel River was a sad visit for historically illiterate rodents who did not believe in the holocaust, and had been told that some of them had been happy slaves when owned by more self-important mammals.

During childhood their different taste in toys should have warned them that their marriage might end on a vacation.

Suicide by hypothermia

A radio controlled misogyny toy.

A dog haunted by the ghost of a cat

Gut boy slept fitfully in the wilderness

Its scary when gut boy has to pick a hole for the night

Pensive racist

Halo or zero

Zombie Ostritch

Why drop bombs on people in their houses when you can drop people on their houses?

Sunrise at Burrowville

Old money

"You are so beautiful," senile dad said to the haystack, so the boys bought it and put it next to his bed. It was a raw love affair with the straw till he died. They had never known their mother and when they burned that dirty blonde hay, they cried.

The ice spider would leave her den to savor the first snow flurry.

Humans may become extinct, but the military industrial complex will still be run by deranged rats who cannot drive heavy equipment safely.

Kissing a zombie dog for votes.

Casket Squirrel

Dreaming of hats.

It is traditional in America that failed politicians must eat their ambitious dreams alone, one bloody splinter at a time. A meal with lots of fiber keeps the digestive tract of a democracy working freely.

The first roosters over Niagara falls were not chicken.

Sue snapped while testing a spray called 'Confession' and had to be taken off the floor.

If guns grew on trees and monkeys shot them the world would be a more dangerous place.

Bat dogs blind at birth follow their noses into dark places

The four left foot clan were inbred but they were proud enough to not wear shoes at funerals.

Purgatory Falls Overlook

She knew about death and scrambled eggs, but plucking before killing was torture, so she took her egg and ran for it.

Often Sue wondered if the possum shot the rapids that day

Big rascals little rascals

Indie crematory with driving circle and murals.

Freedom is a flightless bird wild in the streets.

The monastery of the wooden cat. In silence they carved wooden cats, out of the wood of no, into the wood of yes.

The really fast chickens would race to the top of the hill at sunset

Places where they hang you for singing off key with your dog.

Monster returns home after a hard days work

even after the prosthetic tail cat could not get over her depression

The rooster got drunk the sea got rough and the hen went below and laid an egg

Road toy

Death and his son Mort, throw snowballs at people on a bridge.

When a piece blows off the roof of your dreams even the holes in your socks can run away

Hiss like a silk sheet bite like the devils babies two red hot eyes

Featherless chickens at a nudist colony

Truck Bomb Family

The muscle that they used to propel their young into the sea was prized as a great delicacy

Falling green piano.

Artillery in the wilderness.

Pinata

After their town was rebuit they constructed a monument to their artillery men who had so thoroughly destroyed the town next door

Nervous zombie runs out of dog bones.

Creationism gets examined by dogs.

Devil girl would not be invited to read poetry to the sons and mothers club ever again.

Shy dog swims the stream.

Swimming the bar.

Dog on the rocks.

The dog butchers dog.

Dog in the ice.

Puppies in the bamboo.

Things that fall sometimes return fat and wooden like the leaves of rightwing trees.

Standing in the river, a new Department of Homeland Security Lighthouse reapeated endlessly "You cannot walk on water" "You cannot walk on water"

Catchers mitt, a carnivorous underwater plant.

They put a dead man next to the sprinkler and his head grew roots but he did not produce flowers the first year.

Bonsai, ambition.

The scent of a crazy monkey is not unlike the scent of a crazy man.

After the war, in the two caves on the two humps of Camel Back Gorge, the two great leaders were sentenced to a life of thoughtful isolation by their tribes. The rain forest below contained a small cemetary for previous great leaders. When the balls of wet fog rolled down the mountain they had to wait for the moment to shout an insult, spit, or waggle a wild middle finger at their neighbor. After many years they began to worry that the other one would die first.

The poultry spider suffered from terrible insomnia if there was not at least one living chicken in its web.

I went down to the clearing in the island that was nothing, the palmetto and the sand two hundred pounds of drunk monkey, there are these places.

After torturing the two revolutionary roosters the Blue Boy Brigage decided to blow up the whole hen house.

Well, they began to bleed themselves, with blood parties, at bleeder sing a longs, at vampire bar hop nights, and soon some of them were pale, tired, and dizzy. Painting their houses with home grown red, many died, fell off ladders, drained their pets, and still could not get enough to paint all the houses.

The smell of his burning tank would form the plate upon which all other smells were served for the rest of his life.

Bomber

War dogs leave the home.

Out of the gate they were puppies but Tuco knew if he did not stop the dogs of war now, they would grow into hounds.

Two gentlemen walk their cannon.

Screaming inside our caves we cowered inside the drug we needed to cure our vertigo to keep killing those rats on the other wall. A brother fell into the fields below. A plant grows inside his body, that will flower bright red, as I will flower for my kid.

Crematory Garden For Dogs

The streets got a lot quieter when they taught the smart cannon to hunt certain kinds of music.

A soapbox on a tank explains the collateral damage to the town clown.

Peg Leg Chicken Yard

Slow Battle Field

Flying Squirrel Falls

Artillery takes a bath.

After he had saved the boy from drowning in the river they rewarded him with exotic fruit and even the flesh of other apes, some he knew, and many were strangers

Blue Moth At Home

Primitive cruise missle tests.

Tail Tale

Portective coloration and mimicry

My foot, monkey foot, crow foot, and I am still no angel

Opossum alarm clock

Country cannon.

Human cannon ball mold.

Confused dog and man.

Trying to sleep while death eats.

Camping to avoid the holy spirit.

One dog left in charge of another while a man pees.

Boom Boom

When televisions discuss their civil rights.

The bag men return home.

Learning is like knowing what you want from asassins, teaching is like shooting at the soul while it crawls toward safe stupidity.

The stick hat and gun game.

The last word

When the troglodytes visit

Sleeping in

Coffin pig.

Broken glass tree.

When you lose your dog.

Ball with tail.

He would ask the block if it missed the wall and talk of travel just before bed, his friend was square but reliable.

Goatzilla.

Jacks

Premeditation

Only ever knew that one damn duck, but I said hello hundreds of times.

Social skill, finger someone else.

Grilled briefcase.

The Cactus was born without spines, fat leaves filled with water that would weep from tear ducts where the spines would have been. It was a crying cactus unable to break the skin, a small rainforest of simple grief.

The genetic memory of mammoths.

Meat ball rack.

Bob smells his bait, hears fish jump, adjusts his world view.

Auto feeder for the cat.

Stuffed love birds are popular with the dead.

Short chicken, tall chicken

A home with wine and bats.

In dog light.

Underwater jackset.

Fox with egg.

Woman releases a butterfly into the arms of a cat.

After the wreck, they visited the insides of a man.

Duck shootout.

Warming it all a little too close to the fire.

When dinner explodes.

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