13 HAIKU

All the naked women

turned out to be

Barbies on the kitchen floor

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The spider grins

when something crashes its web

and breaks its connections

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A crystal airway

blocked by a hot dog

collapsed the operation

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Alone time

in December

is somber

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She slinked

into her boudoir

to barf

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The hearty handshakes

at the coming together

of cardiac techs

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My friend Gray Ball is gone

his walkie-talkie—channel 6

dead for now

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These logs know the drill

blaze—shine—radiate for the

span of my desire

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My only message

is slow down

the way you chew

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The awful moment

when you must abandon

what you’ve been staring at

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There’s your current words

then there’s the brute blur

of their birth shape

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My To Do list

has just one thing on it:

make a To Do list

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You get to pick

when the eager beaver

meets the mountain lion

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