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Part One

HAIKU AND TANKA

LIFE AND HUMAN AFFAIRS

WIDOW:

A new sun will rise—

Green grass will push through the snow;

That spring won't return.

COLLISION:

Hot steel fingernails

Screeching across the blackboard

Of darkness. Silence.

MY COUNTRY:

The waterfall roars

Its mighty choral . . . each drop

Beats its own rhythm.

WRINKLES:

Pretty lady hurt . . .

No one taught her to cope with

Her mirror's insults.

GOSSIP:

The mountain is made

Out of the lowly molehill

When dirt is added.

HOPE:

When the day shall come

That I cannot love something,

My pen will be dry.

POLITICS:

Murderous lions

Leave to the waiting jackals

Scraps of alibis.

INGRATE:

Take none for granted!

They will forget easily

The moment they teethe.

HISTORY:

Yesterday is mute—

Today's ears stuffed with cotton.

Tomorrow is blind.

EGO HOMUNCULUS:

Your family tree . . .

Imposing as a redwood.

You didn't plant it.

SKID ROW:

He sits on the curb

Sobbing beside his dead friend,

An empty bottle.

GHETTO:

Pity the garden—

The brutality of weeds

Engulfs the city.

RESTLESSNESS:

What we truly want