The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

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Playin' the Poem Card on a Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

 

 

 

 

Here's this week's heap of haikus:

 

 

I often wonder
what cows in fields must think when
men on bikes ride by.

 

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Elements of style,
Hallmarks of erudition ...
Shut up, already.

 

 

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An Un-Salacious Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

We're royally screwed;
The Queen's alive, Prince is dead ...
Stephen King's okay.

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A Well-Deserved Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

 

 

Here's this week's heap of haikus:

 

Bring your broken-ness
to the altar of repairs ...
Hallelujah, fixed.

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On-this-day-ku:


When Titanic sank ...
Young Leo DiCaprio's
heart did not go on.

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A Fastidious Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

Never a doubt 'bout
that Okie from Muskogee ...
Merle was a badass.

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Coming and Going on a Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

He's close enough to
stare, and old enough to know
what's worth staring at.

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A Really Good Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

 

 

 

 

Here's this week's heap of haikus:

 

 

 

The Easter Bunny
scared her so much, she went to
church without a peep.

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A Theatrical Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

 

The curtain rises on this week's heap of haikus:

 

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A Primarily Trump Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

 

 

 

 

Here's this place for Politics's weekly heap of haikus:

 

 

 

He is short-fingered
and a Vulgarian ... The
Odious Don Drumpf.

 

 


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Marching Forth on a Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

 

 

 

Here's this week's heap of haikus:

 

 

 

The world passes by.
I look out my window and
imagine stories.

 

 

 

 

 

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Where-ever I go,
I feel I am at home, which
is embarassing.

 

 

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A Flattering Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

An over-dose of
an antidote, will become
a poison itself

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