18 Haikus
potentially useful
It’s impossible
Once you really get going
To know how to stop
40 million meals
In the garbage disposals
Come and scoop them out
Life is difficult
Five syllables at a time
Or even seven
Hey everybody
My name is Avril Lavigne
Thanks for being here
I must keep writing
Otherwise bad things happen
Just ask my parents
Born into a world
That prizes vulgarity
I learned to speak loud
Love comes covered up
In all kinds of disguises
Just like Scooby-Doo
Self-imposed strictures
Can create sensual forms
See: women’s bound feet
I can always put
A positive spin on things
I just don’t want to
A lipsticked pitbull
Wagging her tail and licking
My face forever
Slowly but surely
We’ll lose the ability
To form sentences
It’s okay to pine
For impossibilities
That’s what pining’s for
The world gets quiet
For one second every day
It’s how we stay sane
Occasional joy
Rising from the depths of dread
Make sure to observe it
Time has been attacked
Haikus must be modernized:
Cut a syllable
Bananas and books
And other tangible things
I don’t want to lose
Rodney Dangerfield:
I get no respect either
Salam alaykum
I believe in you
As you read this on your phone
We want the same things