Determinedly lo-fi comics
Fundraisers Redux last week you were for sick kids’ hospital but now your shirt colour’s changed blue for the children now yellow for amnesty international clipboards unchanging ambushing pedestrians your scam fools no-one Appropriate Clothing (a two stanza experience) baby doll type shirts are for babies and for dolls you’re clearly neither hooker at the … Read More “Downtown Haikus 2: Haiku Harder” »
Today I will be tackling the rigidly enforced rhythm of haiku. I would like to share a series of haiku (haikus? haikai? anyway, more than one) on the general theme of people I see near my office. Sick Kids’ Hospital Fundraisers Oh, you fundraisers Standing in the rain with your Clipboards, pens and vests Everyone … Read More “Further Poetry” »
Inspired by Anthony’s work and to a lesser extent by the poem he originally read, I submit for your perusal: Thirteen Ways of Looking at My Living Room I Seating for five, Six if two are good friends This is the living room. II The bookshelves rest against the walls Like trees that have been … Read More “Poem” »