Metal escutcheon
Around perception keyhole
Is scratched and pitted
From inanities truncheon
Efforts to unlock function
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I thought what was what
What I didn't know was what
What had turned into -
our decrepitude
ruthless rancid and randy
offends all senses
waddling around the world
worst of us on full display -
some podcasts make you
take the gish gallop challenge
turn nonsense to sense -
the natty flea flies
out without it's overcoat
in a flea-brained flight -
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Falls like a cigarette ash
Off the glowing coal
On the butt of this smoke break
To the ashtray of our days -
bare trees speak to me
without the clutter of leaves
message from their roots -
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Bring back good ol broadcast snow
Watch ghosts come on through -
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chew before swallowing cause
your brain has no teeth -
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Timed thaw and ripen cycle
Live task wheel process -
seems all the stories
I tell myself about me
are anecdotal -
Only takes a peek
No vigil necessary
To see the abyss
Looming up before us all
Executive malfeasance -
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of IRL surroundings
subsumed all day while
partaking of violent games
ingesting haughty delights -
Many a disease
I've given myself watching
YouTube videos -
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just a Different Century
and the band played on -
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cattywampus ciphering
mystical conjure
things that were true now denied
lies take corporeal form -
the day completed
even before it started
with penning of poem -
A haiku a day
A morning word play foray
Had my yearly say -
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Time to deliver the bread
Send the clowns away -
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plastic to tragic tantric
tantrum terror plots
by bilious faux billionaires
serving sorrow by the sack -
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shuffle society's deck
palm a card or two -
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Stupefied into silence
The daily discourse -
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Joy for all the girls and boys
Debt for you and me
Haiku a Day 