my guts strung out: Two Haiku

Father

For that moment I
held on to a fair-the-well,
watching you lay brick.

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Of Self

Sometimes in falling
against his pebbled road sits
a toad needing kissed.

I asked for two lumps! - S

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Alice Walker - The Color Purple

Hear the loud alarum bells-
Brazen Bells!
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!

Poe- The Bells

There was a wet sort of explosion,
audible for several miles.

Edward Gorey- The Beastly Baby

Have you ever felt like a wounded cow
halfway between an oven and a pasture?
walking in a trance toward a pregnant
seventeen-year-old housewife's
two-day-old cookbook?

Richard Brautigan- Rommel Drives on Deep
into Egypt, Have you ever felt like a wounded cow

Incumbent on him then was a decency, or perhaps still, a way in which be to awakened upon himself_ and he saw himself thinking without the thought and it became so. ~ S

Short changed by the Lord,
and as dumb as a jack ass. ~ from 'Being There'

Wandering dews, by the flower are caressed. - Slumber my Darling, by Stephen Foster

"...death be all that we can rightly depend on." - Dracula, Stoker.

my guts strung out

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Two Haiku

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