Haiku U

[Tzara]

You don't fool me, Sir.
I know when you've only seen
the movie. It's Shine.

Hey. Kubrick or King?
There a difference? Well, baseball,
guitars, steadicam.

 

[clutching_calliope]

The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen

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[Tzara]

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Agatha Christie

So, like, who did it?
Not her, not he, not those guys.
Poirot thinks it's me.

 

[Tzara]

Also see: eyes wide
shut versus those who prefer
to keep the lights on.

Doing it in masks
is pretty kinky. He finds,
though, that home is best.

 

[Tzara]

The Cherry Orchard: Anton Chekhov

Oh, the pretty trees!
But we owe much money. Shit.

Worry.
.........Sold.
................Gone.
........................End.

 

[darkerdreamer]

A Modest Proposal[...] by Jonathan Swift

Sick of being poor?
Irish folks have lots of kids...
sell them for dinner!

( Happy Belated St. Patrick's all )

 

[Tzara]

The Collector: John Fowles

Miranda's downstairs.
Nice girl. I think I'll keep her.

........Like in the back yard.

 

[Tzara]

Nothing Natural: Jenny Diski

Fuck her in the arse.
Beat her. She really likes it.
Just end it badly.

 

[Tzara]

Applied Cryptography: Bruce Schneier

Transformative fun-
ctions, in great detail explained.
Encrypt this, baby!

 

[Tzara]

L'Image: Jean de Berg

It is very short.
Claire, Anne, Jean—their whips and chains.
It's twisted at end.

 

[Tzara]

L'Image: Jean de Berg (alternate mix)

It's still very short.
Claire, Anne, Jean—images, comprends?
Ms. Sontag liked it.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy

Anthropomorphic.
Elephants never forget
victimization.

 

[clutching_calliope]

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[GuiltyPleasure]

Very nice (and a good book, too)

Thanks C_C. I just finished "The Romantic" and loved that too. She's a versatile writer, fer sure.



P.S. Is anyone inspired by these Haikus to read a particular book?

 

[Tzara]

The Wall: Jean-Paul Sartre

The joke: he's not shot.
Next, flying statues. Eve's tired.
Three more—all absurd.

 

[Tzara]

Naïve. Super: Erland Loe

Ball. Hammer and peg.
Kid friend. Girl friend. Then, New York.
Gets no time from Paul.

 

[Tzara]

Ararat: Louise Glück

Mum. Dad. Her dead Sis.
Another Sis. Her own son.

Unhappy.
.......................Poems.

 

[clutching_calliope]

The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

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[GuiltyPleasure]

The Favourite Game by Leonard Cohen

Cohen reflecting.
The sexual butterfly,
restless romantic.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

She waits while he comes
and goes and comes again. Wait,
now where did he go?
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I've just started this book - so far so good. Imaginative premise.

 

[Tzara]

She waits while he comes
and goes and comes again. Wait,
now where did he go?
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Not surprisingly, that is almost also dead on for the late Mr. Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five:

Billy's here, then there.
Trapped in Dresden, or a zoo.
Ooh! Montana's hot.

 

[vanslyker]

tombstone haiku

"I was just starting to get the hang of it"
"and then I had to leave"
my friend KV

 

[clutching_calliope]

H.P. and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling

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