haikouldn’t ask it of you

“Read my poem? Please?”
In real life I’d get blank stares.
Here, you’re back for more.

Dubious milestone

Just over five months
This one four hundred fifty
Art or wasted time?

I’ve lied to you

A haiku a day?
Not quite. Some days the tap runs,
some days it’s bone dry.

Spring in the air

Mud has a smell that’s
like waking up to coffee.
You know you’re alive.

March 20

The equinox means
equal night and day worldwide
yin and yang of light.

Ides of March

‘Beware!’ Caesar was
told. Like teens in horror films
he didn’t listen.

In like a lion, out like a lamb

What’s that mean? That spring’s
a dominatrix, whipping
March ’til it submits?

Obama’s turban

Headgear gone wild I
tip my hat to idiots
who have flipped their lids.

Tina Fey’s new black

Reclaiming the word,
she grabs the bitch by the horns
and makes us all proud.

Last lines

for jem who says, “it’s your last lines that get me everytime.

I’d like to think of
myself as the O. Henry
of the haiku form.