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Oct 2017 · 330
The Persistence of Godzilla
Joseph Reilly Oct 2017
Godzilla still lives
Deep in our bent fantasies
AND we dare not smile

This has had a fairly interesting existence.  It started on Godzilla Haiku.  It has now been picked up on Sadanduseless.com.  At any rate, I wrote this and now it is home.
Joseph Reilly Mar 2015
There is no hope here
no one gets out alive
straight, bisexual, or queer
all must perform the dirt dive

We apparently come from nothing
and make ourselves up
as we go along    sauntering
through the tulips    draining the cup

If there is meaning here
which is far from certain
it lasts only as long as we're
on the live side of the curtain

So,

Remembered for a thousand  years
or in the oubliette next Tuesday
ask Alexander if he really cares
ask Milton"What do the snake say?"
Joseph Reilly Mar 2015
Slobbering Morons;
Imbecilic Outliers;
Republicans All
Dec 2014 · 532
Indignity in Indiana
Joseph Reilly Dec 2014
Green is the color of my true love's hair,
Emerald green to match her skin.
Blue are her teeth and red her eyes,
Gray is the blood that gurgles within,
As the world on its axis
and my true love on her toes
Do spin
Dec 2014 · 529
Godzilla's night off
Joseph Reilly Dec 2014
Voracious hunger
Reptilian inclination
Cold Kirin on tap
May 2013 · 3.7k
3 haiku in honor of Godzilla
Joseph Reilly May 2013
Cherry blossom time
thirty stories in the air
delicious people

Melted trains and tracks
resembling grilled cheese dribbling
down leathery hide

Steel Lego towers
tingling anticipation
tasty high tension
These have been salvaged from the defunct "Godzilla Haiku" site.
Nov 2012 · 2.9k
Godzilla Comes
Joseph Reilly Nov 2012
Footstep earthquakes are
Walking toward Tokyo
Charting his progress
Joseph Reilly Nov 2012
There are those who laugh
Because they have not yet heard the terrible news
and
there are those who laugh because they have
All who enter the world, between our mothers' legs
or
McDuffed into an obstetrician's hands
are fated to leave it in a box
or perhaps
in a puff of smoke
we hold these truths to be self-evident,so,
off to work or, off to party, no great difference.
So, you go to work, I'm headed for the bar
This got misposted , as noted above.  Also, I have reworked it a little.
Oct 2012 · 2.4k
Godzilla Agonistes
Joseph Reilly Oct 2012
Tokyo burns bright
fault lines gaping asunder
So much still to do
Oct 2012 · 657
Labor Intensive
Joseph Reilly Oct 2012
Resistance is futile.
Your fate is concrete.
Just like Jimmy Hoffa
Sep 2012 · 870
Drunk at dawn
Joseph Reilly Sep 2012
Whiskey cask sits on floor
cask grows lighter
eyes focus no more

— The End —