failed poet haiku

fiery red evening sky on the beach

waves are such an ancient sound

what did my big toe strike

a stone?  a small crab?

i don't know 

i don't  know

& how now goes the next line?

wherever the wind takes me

it's a hot thursday summer nite & you wanna trip like i do to 'white rabbit' performed by elephant revival. feed your head!

 

cayucos: rocket launch

 

cayucos: a local about to get booped

 

word on the street

 

cayucos: venus & the pacific

 

cayucos: sunset

 

quote unquote

i am somehow less interested in the weight & convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived & died in cotton fields & sweatshops.  

--stephen jay gould

screenplay haiku

fade in

 ext. backyard garden.  hot summer morning

middle-aged guy drinking coffee & doomscrolling

whoosh!  past his ear

'holy shit that's a big bug of the apocalypse!'

pensive, he watches its flight over the fence

then goes back to doomscrolling

fade out

it's friday nite, summertime, the delta breeze kicked on, & you feel like a 'star star' by the rolling stones!

 

california state fair haiku

ah!  that summer evening delta breeze

blowing over the tarmac

the noise of rollercoasters & penned cows

how i love them 

me at this age 

& in pictures i stand in the frame

with my buddha belly at center

who is this old fat man in the picture

who am i

where is this place

i am lost 

i am lost

where i search

i am found again

at the CA State Fair: sunset

 

at the CA State Fair: monorail

 

at the CA State Fair: elvis juggles on a unicycle

 

at the CA State Fair: keep me hanging on

 

at the CA State Fair: go low & slow

 

at the CA State Fair: every day is Halloween

 

at the CA State Fair: this is a dark ride