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December 09, 2008
7 haiku 109
epitapdancing,
eysenck's personality,
sight's epiphany
i have drooled poems
with suspect autopilot
lighted upon me
reductio ad
epigramophonetics
dippy's epistle
wash, wash and dry, wash
and dry, wash and dry, wash and
dry, wash and dry, dry
epithetic heat,
a red epistaxis sans
representation
content follows form,
the appearance of order,
a phlegmatic sham
apolitics by
epithelium balloons
this is called ballast
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December 08, 2008
7 haiku 108
I have a beard now,
say, three quarters of the time,
but not on purpose.
It's funny but true.
I always feel clean shaven
though I rarely am.
It's like housecleaning.
You don't notice the carpet
until you vacuum.
It's like debt payment.
It's an ongoing process
not designed to end.
In college I tried
a number of facial hair
configurations.
It's unclear still which,
if any of them, looked good.
Arguably, one.
Just when I begin
to question the importance,
I look like my dad.
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December 07, 2008
7 haiku 107
With the second sheet,
try to loosen the approach.
Think a little less.
They are there to help,
so don't sweat the simple rules.
Keep your pen moving.
This sheet is its own.
Set the other one aside.
Do not recreate.
Find a new object.
Trace its outline carefully.
The story will come.
Objects continue.
They naturally follow.
Let them also come.
Remember the trick:
When the paper has no lines,
draw them on by hand.
There are some who say
making one's own is cheating.
Ignore them and work.
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November 09, 2008
7 haiku 106
showering again
swallowing mild sedatives
staying up all night
staring at the screen
pulling gently on the cord
fingering the stick
inverting the days
clipping toenails with scissors
staring through the bars
heating the iron
gobbling the carb-free breakfast
writing recipes
chipping a front tooth
starting awake sitting up
finding canaries
hiding pseudonyms
inventing compulsive tasks
biding time from time
huffing ammonia
lacking a true escape plan
packing carefully
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November 07, 2008
7 haiku 105
(The most exciting,
always assumed by design.
Assumed perfection.)
(There are accidents
happening on a level
below the lowest.)
(It's hard to believe
at that place, they say only
"margin" of error.)
(If devices could
count the number of mistakes,
we'd have given up.)
(If we could even
record the errors we'd have
run clean out of tape.)
(These are things we know
we can't even know about
lest we stop knowing.)
(I am a student
of the school of Pretending
This Is Not the Case.)
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November 06, 2008
7 haiku 104
I believe in dust
and serpents and volcanoes
and baskets of rocks
and dogs and ice cubes
and skeletons and asphalt
and jack-o-lanterns
and incense and lye
and tuning forks and Santa
and witches and ponds
and salad and frogs
and parchment and fallen trees
and art-for-art's-sake
and oregano
and dust bunnies and bike racks
and lighter fluid
and coed hayrides
and the invisible death
and baseball diamonds
and cotton and wool
and flame retardant costumes
and medium strings.
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November 05, 2008
7 haiku 103
for Morissette
legions of molten
hearted college aged women
now grown, now doctors
it's never about
some "she" going down on you
in a theater
a gruff baseball bat
and the entitlement that
becomes the smart ones
still on occasion
one will appear who's sincere
having scruffed your flaw
this now well trodden
line item literary
term use rebuttal
asked if irony
is ironically misused
for irony's sake
one hopes for not "yes,"
but "I don't know" followed by
a bucket of slime
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November 04, 2008
7 haiku 102
Ames told stories and
Ames rarely worked too hard and
Ames peed on the herbs.
Some skinny freakish
floppy titted trailer trash
twenty or forty.
Filling bags with dirt,
filling dirt with Styrofoam,
barrows of dirtbags.
Eating my sandwich,
the Mexicans and me sat
trying to converse.
Bounced a nickel so,
you could get those things to ping
and defy physics.
Giant skeleton,
a basil stuffed dinosaur
made me choke and gag.
That first summertime,
rides in Krishna's smelly van,
the mornings crunchy.
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The City of Portland Water Bureau left a note on my door. Says I better take a shower tonight cause they are shutting off my water at 8 AM.
November 03, 2008
7 haiku 101
Today I started
practicing writing smaller
and more legibly.
When paper is scarce
or limited to Post-its®
I will be okay.
I will not create
new abbreviations, nor
adopt the old ones.
I will not renounce
the art of writing longhand
to reduce my font.
I will also work
on putting the lowercase
letters back in there.
I will never take
line items out of a plan
to reduce plan size.
Now my agenda
almost fits on one square inch
of brown masking tape.
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November 02, 2008
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My biggest external backup drive is getting a workout today. Been defragmenting for the better part of 6 hours. 75% done.
7 haiku 100
had a cheap futon
had a telephone table
had a big oak desk
had a cordless phone
had that alarm clock ten years
still have one like it
had a cheap floor lamp
had another cheap floor lamp
had a cheap desk lamp
had pink index cards
had The Screenwriter's Bible
had scenes and outlines
had small ice cube trays
had a decent apartment
did have roaches though
had a faux routine
had a favorite diner
had a "usual"
had a flower shop
had an express train nearby
had a corner store
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November 01, 2008
7 haiku 99
O unfortunate!
& though you are waterproof —
not from inside out!
O big laptop bag
& I put a travel mug
in the big pocket
O & I was sure
I drank my morning coffee
completely dry up
& O & woe &
when I got home the dampness
hang in the bathroom!
& the inside smells
musty now like the inside
of the hardest sneeze
O big laptop bag
& enzymes in a bottle
position nozzle
O, & luckily
PDA & headphones &
laptop all survived
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