week 38: the firestarter

curly blonde ringlets
she'll burn it all down, baby
commands it: back off

haiku kitty's response to week 37:

robbee:
"Take my cookies and
take my drink - but have pity
leave me the cat's food "

robbers:
" Listen to this fool!
Crazy old man! But why not?
Catch! Here's your cat food!

cat:
" I see you've brought food
and none too soon -- for tonight
I would have killed you "

special thanks to haiku kitty :)

week 37: in response to the police blotter account of teens vs. man with cookies, drink and cat food

teens:
we needed some "food"
so we got a "gun," for fun,
stole not all, but some

robbee:
they took my cookies!
they took my drink! what am i
to eat: my cat's food?

cat:
meow, crunch, crunch, crunch
i was hungry, now i'm not
crunch, crunch, crunch, meow

week 36: begone from my brain elvis c!

echoing refrain
ev'ry day i write the book
it's too damn catchy

bureau burning, 1992

embers glowed, windows
of a sideways building, razed
for our amusement

week 35: this makes it significantly more difficult to type

i wove my fingers
basket-like, some warp, some weft:
procrastination