Taking what life throws at me one pitch at a time
Rhythm stick no more
Hit me with your haiku stick
That's how I roll now
Living on mountains
Foreign to me as desert
Shore dweller for life
test the tensile strength
of a spring that will become
a long hot summer
Oh Joy, I have an incoming call from scam likely.
Sometimes it's just kind
To not bother to rewind
Random access life
found out it's okay
to pack bear spray when I tour
national treasures
back to the snake oil
no hand washing, germs, or cures
bad humours abound
if you were of troubled mind
it was strait in the jacket
Mother was forty.
Father was fifty when I
was born. The caboose.
He worked on railroad.
All the livelong day. Math says
I was his present.
Gift given on his
fiftieth birthday. That was
my moms family joke.
Siblings said I was
left on doorstep by gypsies.
Children seen. Not heard.
Not the center of
anyone's universe then
Except for grandma
Mother went to work
At factory down the street
Never felt neglect
Nor did I feel poor
Hungarian grandmother
watched over me well.
Six of us lived in
Two bedroom home. One bathroom
One tub. No shower.
Time dragged at young age
Yet house cleared out soon enough
Siblings move on out.
Leaving me alone
Youngest still fifty years on
Still not seen or heard
Reductionist sweep
Objects are objectionable
Disturb resting dust
poised on the tip of
sparrow beak berry resigns
to skin break juice fateLike a splinter under a fingernail
The news covers what people say
I watch to see what public figures do
More often it is what they don't do
Usually it's what they said they'd do
Unfortunately some times they do do
What they said and now we seen
What they done
It ain't purty
words splinter into
bytes then spew into the maw
of quantum a.i.
Due to budget cuts
no clamp. Learn to bleed slower
or you'll just bleed out.
As the solstice nears
Defrosted winter grove weeps
Hydrangea blooms
a sunbeam razor
the right tool for the right job
would have been better
than a chainsaw, but got merged
under by corporate raiders
LOMBRD
loads of money but right dicks
Susie Dent - Countdown
"Reflective morality
A cruel action will be repaid with cruelty
A kind one with kindness"
The Ministry of Time
Kailiane Bradley
The world is as it always has been
The perfect blend of awful and wonderful.
Waiting for that final straw
That breaks the camels back
Is just like waiting for Godot
transparency for
some means swatting every fly
on the wall to quash
Every clueless sap
Taken in by con artists
Saps our common strength
Elon Musk's actions embody the most heinous class warfare examples possible.
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
Penetration tool
A drill can build or destroy
Favorite weapon as
slasher film backup or for
environmental rapists
Senator Slug fell in line
To kiss the befouled ring
To follow the slimy trails
Left by lobbiest #Nudibranch
Money, power, social bling
Gold encrusted shells
Now hunker on the back bench
Like big ol' nasty snails
Chick Diakon played by
Bud Abbott when he and Lou
Met with Frankenstein
Words that land fallow
Often come from a callow
Self centered fellow
Fellowship
Don't need a quorum
Predation of predators
now make all the rules
takes lots of restraint
from all of us to start to
scale back the hate
it was none to bright
of me to stay all night
in bone chilling sleet
I saw no future.
Groomed to be up to my butt
in Nam rice paddies
1-H to 1-A
Random sequence number was
seventy six. Yikes
Lucky me. The draft
stopped a year hence thanks to those
that went before me
Memorial Day / Decoration Day for you Civil War Vets out there 02:48 PM
In early May of this year my father would have been 119. Passed away long ago in his late 70s. One of my favorite memories was when the Right Wing became NAZI curious ala Blues Brother's Movie era. Some of those knuckle heads set up a little podium in a park I was playing tennis in. My friends and I went over and mocked them mercilessly until they went away. Although they tried their typical intimidation cosplay, even the Chicago Police didn't have much use for these miscreants then. Eventually they went back to the rock they crawled out from under. I told my dad, a WWII vet, when I went home and all he said was, " I wish I knew. I'd have got my gun and shot them."
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