Haiku Train

[Travis]

Maid Carla, depressed
and way out of sorts, shouted
this - Haiku? Boo hoo!

[Lake]

This Haiku boohoos
into the deep dusk. Master
Basho shakes his head.

[barrie]

Basho shakes his head
dropping dandruff phrases.
Some sound like bullfrog.

[Lake]

Some sound like bullfrog
from the bottom of the pond.
Sakura plunges.

[barrie]

Sakura plunges
mouthfirst into the sake
sense evaporates

[Lake]

Sense evaporates,
feeling distills to a void.
A smiling flower.

[camus]

A smiling flower
portentous whore for the bees
choose carrots instead

[Lake]

choose carrots instead
of sticks? that won't guarantee
a preferred result

[Oskar]

a preferred result -
anticoagulated
carrot for the Count

[barrie]

Carrot for the Count?
Vegetarianism
plaguing the undead!

[Danté]

Plauguing the undead!
my mind a wandering thus
will find my desires.

[kozmikdave]

... will find my desires,
... will discover the truth,
... and pigs will fly south.

[Oskar]

... and pigs will fly south
as Victor Laszlo flies north
and Bogart looks on

[barrie]

..and Bogart looks on,
then speaks in a Bogart voice,
"Play it again, Stan."

[Oskar]

"Play it again, 'Stan" -
music from Istanbul not
Constantinople

[barrie]

Constantinople
or Konstantinopolis -
it's all Greek to me.

[Lake]

It's all Greek to me
like tadpoles swim in the book.
Show me how to catch.

[kozmikdave]

Show me how to catch
butterflies in long sweep nets -
start my collection.

[Kilravluis]

start my collection
build it up slowly from scratch
it's a flea circus

[Lake]

It’s a flea circus
not a flea market where you
find valuables.

[juliadebeauvoir]

Find valuables,
and then instantly lose them.
Very scatter-brained.

[barrie]

Very scatter-brained
he became, after treatment
from an old twelve-bore

[Lake]

From an old twelve-bore?
It’s Greek to me. I just know
twelve in a dozen.

[barrie]

Twelve in a dozen -
but in a baker's dozen
twelve becomes thirteen.

[Lake]

twelve becomes thirteen –
unlucky number. Why not
choose foot-long hot dog?