Like a hick I tilt my
head to see the top and
ponder tossed pennies.
Empire State Building – at the base
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Like a hick I tilt my
head to see the top and
ponder tossed pennies.
Like a hick I tilt my
head to see the top and
ponder tossed pennies.
In the skyscraper
canyons, light outlines moving
shapes sipping Starbucks.
Flushing Meadows Park
once a site of hope. There, a
globe pledged future peace.
‘Beware!’ Caesar was
told. Like teens in horror films
he didn’t listen.
What’s that mean? That spring’s
a dominatrix, whipping
March ’til it submits?
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.
Secretive. Works for
the CIA. Won’t say where
it’s been for four years.