Taking what life throws at me one pitch at a time
Take a peek at the beak to tell a crow from a raven forevermore
It's Monday morning
So time to get your crow on
My fine haiku peeps
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fresh wind is welcome
under the blankets after
night chill hot air fill
be careful with whom
you #associate with in
waxing fascist times
Chill of a night kill
Watch Associate eat crow
Wash it down with bile
we were magical
things when held in each others
fierce fiery gaze
We rolled in the mud
Then we rolled in the clover
Fun wash once over
once reached for the stars
now only low hanging fruit
culture warfare fare
divide to conquer current
collapsing constellation
another day to
inflict my predilection
for snark on the world
a sudden bout of
boisterous behavior ends
a long-term friendship
Talking head pungent
Sold this President
Smile indecent
Bought by Pepsodent
Current resident
Not a proper gent
Everywhere he went
His welcome was spent
With loud vile vent
With no precedent
Opinions for rent
For ratings percent
Zero
The numerical expression
Of the answer to the question:
"Can absence be present
And nothingness exist?"
Contrarian stand
Refuse to rotate my tires
I'll die on that hill
If you scooch over
I'll rotate just a little
We'll have something there
I know where to go
When feeling parched and lonely
Next morning more so
A librarian
Can be most contrarian
Because they read books
Karmic justice will
gestate in it's own time
No need to push it
Karmic justice will gestate
Eventually
You were my first draft
Left glorious and unscathed
That was our #moment
Then the real world rushed in
Forcing revisions on us
Before it's too late
Send for ale and fresh horses
Siege necessities
plastic surgery
botox filler fakery
like peas in a pod
You became my poetry
Fortuitously or ill-fated
Left glorious and unscathed
You were only my first draft
The time it takes to
Send the moment to my brain
Seems to take longer
nothing more useless
than unasked for advice, won't
listen or follow
Profound formula
X-rays times Y-rays equal
Ludicrous thought rays
this ain't gunna be
no sprint, it's a cross country
long haul muddy slog
mosquitos plotting
no more cold night genocide
electro warfare
activate the larvae guard
bug zapper suicide charge
Each choice. Each moment.
Molds a moment of its own.
Shape-shifting streaming.
I sat down to read
Then I forgot to get up
Kept turning the page
creepy orange radish
wants to turnip the grief on
non-elite parsnips
dementia leads us
waist deep in the big muddy
with unclear vision
Went to see a snow leopard
At the Lincoln Park Zoo
Instead I saw no leopard
However the zoo
Was filthy with wild life
i.e. children
Enormity is
Established after two steps
Off the bluff of time
the best thing about
haiku is it lets me be
briefly brief in brief
river mouth lined with
withered reeds as rising sea
levels force the brine
further up the river flow
changing the ecosystem
mental cough known as
a scoff will expectorate
airborne balderdash
Can you tell a story in 15 words using the following words in it somewhere:
EXERCISE
NEIGHBOUR
TROLL
I exercise my troll neighbour daily. He chases me across the bridge to a train.
When I close my eyes
I dream of weeks spent on small
seconds of screen time
where humans abide
the hill will endure us in
spite of our follies
on the precipice
of a gulch there was a #glitch
stopped us with a gulp
Social distancing
On Social Media brings
Quiet quietude
stand back and watch me
ruin seventeen syllables
tangle mangle coup
such things cannot be
sufficiently despised is
the correct response
to corrupt actions taken
by despotic land grabbers
nineteen eighties greed
bonfire of the vanities
compared to today's
narcissistic avarice blaze
was a prescient flickering
Sealed maritime doom
For many wayward sailors
Elkie the Selkie
End morning mind defragmentation 08:34 AM
A Scroll Threw Life 