One Liner

Hanging from the hillside is a cow soon to be tipped God is watching

History of mankind is a history of horrors Ba Humbug

Just a casual reminder that fish and guests stink after three days

Poster child for perpetual irritation a long-tailed macaque

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Le Mot Juste

Flinging craziness, a coin soared random
In the midst of a crowd, I exclaimed:

Which way? Which way?
Seven roads surfaced at once,

Seven paths in captivating sum.
In moonlight, heavenly-sevenly;

All but southwest, in moonlight…
Fragments of the crowd scurried

Peculiar, whistling, hundred-petalled,
Discretely going off in directions

Which way? Which way?
An intense rushing aloud:

How sure are you of this path?
Or just about any road would do?

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Time Out Of Time

sometimes The crickets parted in a passing dance

sometimes You rearranged darling regrets

sometimes At one fell swoop

sometimes Guillotines rained out panorama

sometimes This origami heart roamed stranger fiction

sometimes We gathered storm in the vagaries of chance

sometimes Love was never any eager

sometimes Only an epic way of being alone

sometimes You rested on piercing envy

sometimes Light was a hot small breath

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