MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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A Drizzily Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon
By MrSmith1 on Fri, 10/11/2013 - 3:06pm |
Here's this week's heap of haikus:
A sleeping dog guards
the pumpkin harvest while the
leaves sneak from the trees.
(The rest of the photographs on this page were taken by my collaborator, Tom Contrino.)
Red and white onions,
Forced together by fate ... and
Color blind grocers.
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Living on the streets,
I slip into a dream world
to escape my life.
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Pulsating rhythms,
Echoing through Central Park,
The joy of bongos.
or:
What did Mantle's knees,
and a drummer's fingertips,
have in common? Tape!
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How do you get to
High Street Rehab? You inhale ...
(It makes sense to me.)
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I locked my bike up
when I got to the market ...
Good thing I wore shoes.
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Stiff and discarded,
old paintbrushes wait, hope and
pray for turpentine.
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Though his hand was out,
his spirit needed kindness
even more than cash.
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A Mannequin Zoo;
Please Do Not Feed the Housewives ...
(and if they move, run!)
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Sure, she stares blankly,
and she has no fashion sense,
but she listens well.
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I whispered to her,
'What is a nice girl like you,
Doing behind bars?'
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Confused park benches
still wonder why people look
for seats on buses.
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What sub-species of
human fakes a service dog?
I'm too blind to see.
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Willows in the wind,
gently swaying back and forth,
like sleepy dancers.
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He tried to please her,
he tried to reason with her,
she tried his patience.
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double haiku:
He wrestles demons,
which doesn’t pay as well as
praying with angels …
But ... it’s a living.
And the fact is, he prefers
headlocks to halos.
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Cunning conundrums,
thoroughly mixed metaphors ...
twisted conclusions.
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The bejeweled collar
he wears, undercuts his claim
he wants to be free.
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When it's dinnertime
in the cannibal village,
stupid shows up first.
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Soft hands on rough stone,
grasping for crevices, will
soon form calluses.
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"I 'felt' it was true" ...
has been the rationale for
most of our blunders.
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Let me ask you this ...
If it is all in God's hands,
why is He all thumbs?
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Finally, just for fun, check out my old pal Davis Cone's paintings in this article on The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/09/davis-cone_n_4064988.html?utm_hp_ref=arts
Have a great week.
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Comments
I can't explain this
But manikins freak me out
Is this nuts or what?
It is not like they
Intentionally scare me
They have no spirit
Manikins aren't dead
You must have first lived before
You can in fact die?
by Richard Day on Sat, 10/12/2013 - 3:24pm
As some 'doll' once said,
"It's not the man in my life ...
it's the manikin."
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Having no spirit
does not mean you aren't alive ...
look at Dick Cheney.
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by MrSmith1 on Sat, 10/12/2013 - 4:44pm
Mephistopheles
works in middle management:
A doll drives his car.
Tea Party Death Wish:
I will witness your demise:
Pass the nachos, please.
Stupid called for help
and then shot the intruders.
He wears his own chains.
by moat on Sat, 10/12/2013 - 6:06pm
Don't be so silly
Dolls cannot drive on the roads
They're there for the ride!
by Richard Day on Sat, 10/12/2013 - 6:48pm
The chauffeur is real
but the passenger is not?
Two dolls in a car.
by moat on Sat, 10/12/2013 - 7:12pm
Don't be so silly?
Let me sew this one one right up ...
You're in the wrong thread.
I'm not needling,
I'm tailoring my post and
laughing in stitches.
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by MrSmith1 on Sat, 10/12/2013 - 8:53pm
Tea Party Health Care:
We got the Rapture and the
Emergency Room.
by Oxy Mora on Sat, 10/12/2013 - 6:50pm
Socks on before shoes.
The safe ones laugh at the damm'd.
Laughing last is hate.
by moat on Sat, 10/12/2013 - 7:22pm
I like that.
by Oxy Mora on Sat, 10/12/2013 - 8:24pm
Please prioritize;
carts go before horses and
socks on before shoes.
by MrSmith1 on Sat, 10/12/2013 - 8:24pm
Good one Oxy!
Tea Party Health Care;
Give me my gun and I'll give
myself a flu shot.
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by MrSmith1 on Sat, 10/12/2013 - 8:15pm
Thanks, Smith.
Give me my rifle
And I'll shoot up some health care
and a few mandates.
by Oxy Mora on Sat, 10/12/2013 - 8:30pm
re-write:
Tea Party Health Care;
Don't take away my gun, 'cuz
I need a flu shot.
by MrSmith1 on Sat, 10/12/2013 - 8:43pm
Excellent! Nice to keep the 'stupid' theme going from last week. lol
Tea Party Death Wish;
Who knew that holding your breath
would turn Congress blue?
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by MrSmith1 on Sat, 10/12/2013 - 8:08pm