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Write some fallen leaves / without overly detailed imagery / and place them
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Nov 13, 2021
Afterglow
Momentary lapses of shyness within pretentiousness the size of a non-la-hat / offering shade from the sweltering sun, / confused the boy still residing beneath an
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Aug 2, 2012
An Ode to Ezra Pound - musical accompinament performed by audio-visual hallucinations.
Through past/present/future, the Imagist Express still clatters, bending time, space, / and everything else that truly matters. / The eclectic, mingled aroma
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Apr 1, 2010
Autobahn
Rapid Eye Movements / cruise down the Autobahn, / driving dreams of soldiers
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Apr 1, 2010
Chrome
Husks of graffiti-covered factories / melt into the industrial wasteland / like dried-out scarab beetles clinging to the Sphinx.
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Nov 12, 2021
Closer
The sky resembles the robin's eggshells / scattered across the ground, / a blue so seemingly infinite yet fragile,
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May 24, 2012
Confessions of Mass ****** Genocide, and Non-Consensual Mass Suicide and Euthanasia severely lacking in Proper Informed Consent
It's a downer to express the largest-scale tragedy of my lifetime / over and over again. / I've combed through 10,014 medical malpractice reports of young people who had been strong and without complication up until receiving the one-eyed technocratic snake bite that supposedly has nothing to do with their suspicious deaths,
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Nov 16, 2021
COVID-19 tanka: 001
people wait in line / to receive injections: / lumps of curdled cream
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Apr 16, 2022
Haibun 004: Break down
This was meant to be a haibun. After the / first sentence, I folded the list of rules into a sparrow. I go for a walk, / pass by the place where people write haiku
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Nov 12, 2021
honking recedes (haiku)
honking recedes - / last shadows of geese / bend on the frost
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Jul 29, 2012
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