Haiku Train

[Jester]

you know who to trust
but that girl with that bust is
such a distraction

[barrie]

such a distraction
is known as a red herring
a fishy smoke screen

[camus]

a fishy smoke screen
denies the curls of woodbines
from a fifties past

[barrie]

from a fifties past
towards a fifties future
in forty four years

[twoleftfeet]

In forty four years
we can watch England screw up
Eleven World Cups

[barrie]

eleven world cups
will come and go talking of
Michelangelo

[juliadebeauvoir]

Michaelangelo,
forever trapped by a Pope,
just wanted to sculpt.

[barrie]

Just wanted to sculpt.
Alas, we can never have
all that we wish for.

[twoleftfeet]

All that we wish for -
"Give the lamp a rub, Jeanie -
No don't plug it in!"

[barrie]

"No, don't plug it in,
you might get a nasty shock,
your hands are still wet."

[Jester]

your hands are still wet
from the driving sweat dripping
swift through the rain roof

[barrie]

Swift through the rain roof
and swallow through the sun roof,
look - a house martin!

[Jester]

Look - a house, Martin.
Can't see shacks for sheds round here -
wouldn't you agree?

[barrie]

"Wouldn't you agree?"
Are you asking me questions?
Ask me some answers.

[Jester]

Ask me some answers
and I'll tell you some half-truths,
some half-lies as well

[twoleftfeet]

Ask me some answers
Ask Jeeves who murdered Bertie
Was it the butler?

Sugar!!

[Jester]

Was it the butler?
Don't like licorice allsorts
but wouldn't kill one

[twoleftfeet]

but wouldn't kill one
-Bassets are endangered since
they fled to Worcester

[Jester]

they fled to Worcester,
Labrador too, anywhere
except Dalmatia.

[twoleftfeet]

Except Dalmatia
- the place where Long John Silver
picked up the Black Spot

[barrie]

Picked up the Black Spot
and infected Ben Gunn's cheese,
the grey-bearded loon.

[Jester]

the grey-bearded loon
sang a sea faring tune - eight
pieces to the bar

[barrie]

pieces to the bar;
so sixteen bars to the blues
or it could be twelve.

[Jester]

or it could be twelve
or four in the key of E
with a Cheshire grin

[barrie]

With a Cheshire grin,
an even cheesier smile,
Tony lied again.