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Hope, Faith and Love with Basho (Haiku)
Hope’s a luxury Expensive commodity A gamble I lose. Faith is loud but blind Screams Her strict demands and cries When I prove brittle. Love drives hooks through flesh Hangs you from the Wailing Wall: Willing sacrifice.
MoreOh Danny Boy in the ‘loin
Oh Danny Boy, the Pipe the Pipe is calling From the heart of Geary all the way to The Powell Station steps. Summer is knocking and all your friends Are crying, and those not dead Will be a-dying yet. I hear your name drift in through my window Some man is calling for you out […]
MoreStrange incense and burnt offerings
In my evening phone call to the outer-limits, dialing into disaster somewhere on the road with my favorite death-partier and sometime partner in destruction, I got accused. I was accused, fairly or not, of pretending that I was better than him. That I was a fake, pretending that I’m not the trash that I clearly […]
MoreBiohazards with Basho
Mushrooms, mustard greens Berries, broccoli and fish: Radioactive. When the rice glows green Just grind it up into flour Hide it in sembe. Tepco don’t care much For human life, health or love: Ten thousand year fix. Notes Sembe are Japanese rice crackers. Rice can be ground up, made into flour and repackaged, thus hiding […]
MoreThe day the Earth betrayed her
The day the rain came had started like any other. The kettle was put on the stove, the gas lit with a long match as the starter had died years ago. Water boiled like water boils, slowly, watched and then whistling loudly. Two Janat teabags put into a single large mug without a handle and […]
MoreFilth and Desecration. Basho hates me! (Haiku Series)
Piss soaked pants on wall, Grey men’s size large, drip stinking. Is he now naked? Blake’s Satanic Mills Seem innocent in compare: Everything got worse. Poets, Shaman, Priests, Scientists, teachers unleashed: Who will stop the rot?
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