Haiku Train

[Jester]

And can the nose tell
the mouth what it is smelling,
when it has no tongue?

[barrie]

When it has no tongue,
mouth is useless in China,
because Fu Men Chu.

[Jester]

because Fu Men Chu
the ends of their moustaches
they cough up hair balls.

[barrie]

They cough up hair-balls,
which all get together and
form a Government!

[vesuvius]

form a government
disdain laws like a lion
or a nihilist

[pseud]

or a nihilist
will cuss at you, and then wish
he had reasons to

[barrie]

He had reasons to
regret all the things he'd done.
Death threats for a start.

[kozmikdave]

Death threats for a start -
“Why don’t we just abort it?”
Maybe, maybe not!

[pseud]

Maybe, maybe not!
Maybe just euthanasia.
What a way to end.


a snob just informed me that we have been writing senyru, not haiku, for this entire train.

[Jester]

What a way to end.
Don't understand Japanese -
Start a sonnet train.


http://members.tripod.com/~Startag/HkSenDiff.html

[kozmikdave]

Start a sonnet train.
No kigo to worry ‘bout . . .
but fourteen lines. (Shit!)

[Jester]

But fourteen lines. (Shit!)
Iambic pentameter -
(shit and corruption!)

[barrie]

Shit and corruption -
politics in a nutshell;
pick your own Party!

[kozmikdave]

pick your own Party
similar to picking scabs
but these never heal

[barrie]

But these never heal
unless left out in the sun,
not just covered up.

[kozmikdave]

“Not just covered up”
was the name of her novel
about politics

[barrie]

About politics -
Maintaining the status quo
with any Party.

[twoleftfeet]

With any Party
the Annual Conference
stinks of effluent

[Bombadil]

stinks of effluent
and ammonia doesn't
that make mustard gas?

[barrie]

That make mustard gas,
this make plenty phosgene gas
now me run like wind.

[Jester]

now me run like wind,
leave many cowboy standing,
with mud on pale face

[barrie]

with mud on pale face
and water in the bucket -
a bright idea!

[Jester]

A bright idea!
Recycle your light bulbs as
glass candle holders

[barrie]

glass candle holders
shouldn't be people or throw
stones in wax houses.

[Jester]

Stones in wax houses
gather no rolling bees or
birds' hands in bushes