Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for March 12, 2025

Back to square one.

He’s a nervous wrecktangle.

A real square.

“As long as you got the curves, baby, I got the angles.” — Wolfman Jack

He’ like a total square man.

Nah. He’s just been studying art with Yayoi Kusama.

Just a bit of a nerd.

HE’S A BOUT 2 GET BENT!

He was framed!

He seems to have a wall on the outside.

Maybe he’s (actually) a plant (cell).

Like me, he’s a square.

Being a square is SO 1960s-ish.

Yeah, stop picking on the squares, you bullies!

Just organized!

He needs to come out of his pellicle.

I picture him as a wall hanging.

Eventually he’ll learn to think outside the box.

He’s always been wound too tight…

He’s so square, baby she don’t care.

He was caught between a slide and a cover slip . . .

Is that Sharon’s date or an hors d’oeuvre on a snack cracker?

He’s not a natural in these circumstances

Hard to tell. Amoeba yes, amoeba no.