Haiku Train

[Jester]

Dose of Castro oil?
1926 vintage -
very expensive.

[barrie]

Very expensive
for the ones who try to stem
its natural flow.

[Jester]

Its natural flow,
against the capitalist
tide, could turn around.

[barrie]

'tide' could turn around,
then it would become 'edit'.
Cnut would be proud.

[Jester]

Cnut would be proud
Are we talking anagrams?
Same thing anyway.

[barrie]

Same thing anyway -
Cnut, the man who tried to
turn around the tide.

[Jester]

"Turn around the tide."
he said, as Ethel read the
unready people.

[barrie]

unready people,
ready for nothing yet full
of expectations

[Jester]

...of expectations
of good relations with
Scandanavia

[barrie]

Scandanavia.
Here, by the Mersey, we have
Scamdanavia.

[Jester]

Scamdanavia
maybe, but you'll never see
Scabdanavia.

[barrie]

Scabdanavia.
Have you seen the pox clinic
on Everton Road?

[Jester]

On Everton Road?
What do you expect on BLAIR
Plain in Singapore?

[barrie]

Plain in Singapore,
maybe eyeless in Gaza -
All the same to me.

[Jester]

All the same to me -
identical, uniform -
peas in a freeze bag

[barrie]

peas in a freeze bag
grow in the arctic circle;
is what liars say.

[Jester]

Is what liars say
lies to those who believe them
when self-deluded?

[barrie]

When self-deluded
I believe anything I'm
not told is not true

[Jester]

Not told is not true.
Don't believe a word he says,
or what he doesn't.

[barrie]

or what he doesn't
could mean what he does by way
of doing nothing

[Jester]

Of doing nothing
For complete relaxation -
careful with those pants.

[barrie]

careful with those pants,
don't put them on upside down,
you might need new shoes.

[twoleftfeet]

"You might need new shoes?"
"Cobblers" said the hoarse blacksmith
driving off downhill.

[barrie]

Driving off downhill
is a lot easier than
putting on a slope.

[twoleftfeet]

Putting on a slope?
Putting on a straitjcaket -
that's a handicap!