when you see a shark
polite to ask first before
taking his picture
just because he doesn’t
ask before eating you
two wrongs don’t make right
manners of the sea
hello may i devour you
no you may not bye
little vegan fish
shore leave swallowing algae
vegetarian
kosher bottom feeding
everything is kosher
when you are in love
do sheep get itchy
are some allergic to wool
you have to wonder.
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Sophie the Dog
sophie was all wet
she looked at parents like they
pushed her into hole
hole in the ocean
she misjudged no judging
told me her plight
she told me to walk
very warm at the ocean
windy here by ducks
she stands far away
knowing duck could pull her in
felipe is tricky.
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In the Sand
almost erased
i love nolan and conner
by the next waves
( i love conner too
scott peterson erased him
erased laci too ).
Mr. Blond Mullet
he caught two blue fish
one as i walked behind him
return second blue
while i was away
shark jumped on his minnow
snapped thirty test.
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An Old Seventeen
sweet home schooled boy
“are you that jewish lady
from last october ”
five two and five ten
sinking deeper into sand
teenager and i .
every october
he said “keep up the good work”
told him to “drive safe ”
we laugh at silly
expressions people say to us
” you’re doin it ”
“Stay There”
remember last year
he crossed the creek at high tide
to tell me something.
Family Walk
sister walks head down
three miles searching for shark teeth
today she found two .
`
Black Dress & Eyeshadow
you look so pretty
” i’m doing a model shoot ”
six year old child .
White Doggy
twelve year old lucy
pink t shirt avoid sunburn
” i love my daddy “.
i’m refusing
to say goodbye to summer
you can’t make me.
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stream of consciousness
many have said this
had to look it up
.
how can i be doing
something if i don’t
know what it is.
.
i’m just a person
stumbling upon haiku month
february.
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trying to fit
as many on page as
humanly possible.
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like this:
if i had my say
which apparently i do
won’t say bye!
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shark head in surf
appears as though he doesn’t
need bottom half.
`
men always asking
me to get in the pool
get a commission?
`
favorite kind of a man
one who says see you
tree o’ clock .
`
everyone tells
me schedule can’t even
remember own.
`
if someone is
a leader you better take
a hard look.
`
ants hate this
vinegar in tea cup
crawling on rim.
`
why would anyone
want to eat a vinegar
potato chip?
`
you can’t strangle
a man with a large neck
not that i want to
`
tapping his head
why is he doing that
maybe a V8?
`
sneaking out
it’s the fastest way the softest
way and coolest way.
`
if your name
ends in vowel then can
i call you gumba ? (friend)
`
helicopters three
hovering above do not
“beam me up”.
After the parachutes:
Kite making S’s
arabian music playing
red snake tail.
Falls to earth
” we’re living on a prayer”
music changes.
`
Showering with a n y accent:
“Did that woman
just shout a haiku at me
well i’ll be darn”.
“How could it take him
that long to get here?
it’s not that far”
`
she sprays sunscreen
twenty four hours a day
must run from her.
`
Let’s try ocean
girl runs over asks
if i am greek.
why did she ask? no i’m not.i’m from s.c.
She thinks it’s fate. she lives in greenville where i spent most of my life.my home is in arlington where she spent most of her life.
`
Then horrible man
size fourteen shoe steps
on jellyfish.
nightmares for me
nightmares for the fish
her loved ones.
`
around 5:00
black chutes
twenty eight hotels away
jumping off roof.
how it appeared
floating up to the ground
over and over.
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THEN JAWS:
i stop to stare at a giant shark head.any size would be giant to me.he was just at the edge of the surf. eventually 3 people came & took his picture. his eyes were staring at me. i couldn’t leave.am i the answer man?everyone asks me .is that what i think it is? how did he get here?
then a man:
“Honey reach in
get me a tooth out
make me a necklace”
not for a million
sir are you related
potato chip guy?
( who wanted to deep fry the jellyfish )
alice and trixie
“speak of nothing but the wild
ride from taiwan”.
`
can you imagine
two sharks on a plane
not a movie.
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morphine sharks lyrics
” swim for the shores
just as fast as YOUR able
it won’t save you”
(luckily your & not you’re)
in six inches of water,i was thinking about all of the people who had been attacked by sharks over spring break,in florida and all of a sudden something grabbed my foot and pulled me.
hysterical i jumped out and asked the fisherman if they were fishing for sharks and they said yes. my foot was bleeding and a very sweet teenager said a crab had grabbed my foot.that was the last time i was going to get in water that deep.eleven days later,i was in water only above my feet, when all of a sudden ,i couldn’t move and just stood there like an idiot pointing at a real shark,i hoped was a dolphin, but it wasn’t….
finally i could move and seven crazy paople came toward me and the shark,and took pictures of him.he was in very shallow water and swimming in circles eating the bait fish.this woman , from georgia,got out of her chair and had seen me pointing and asked how i saw him.i said because i was looking.then the people who took his picture tried to tell me how big he was and i said i know he was 15 feet away from me, but i really didn’t know :apparently he was six feet long.i never saw his face.so much for two inches of water.then there was a giant crab,possibly 12 inches around, who wasn’t even in the ocean, but getting a tan.he lifted his back,if the surf came close to him.
the wind was blowing 16 mph and i was thinking, this is ridiculous i feel like uncle fester and 2 seconds later, this man came toward me and said look it’s uncle fester to his friend.”what did you say ,i was just thinking that exact same thing”.
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