Misc. Haiku 36-40

36

Hark! The dog makes the sound
Of someone interested
In my poetry

37

Getting drunk
To the story of Enron—
Alcohol flows like gas.

38

Untamed land
Just waiting to be explored—
From the five hundreds…

39

Swimming the halls of fortune,
Beset by the winnings
Of the greatest generation

40

Macadamia nut
Dusted with imperial
Gunpowder

Misc. Haiku 31-35

31

Flushed Rhine has risen
To welcome our arrival
In the wine-land

32

Skyline sky,
Skybleached sky.
How many times I will describe it

33

Coin empire,
You’re running out of coins—
Guess how I paid for you

34

Sky more blue
Or clouds more white?
What haiku at this height?

35

Heels on a cobblestone street.
Oh, I can’t help
But looking

Ezra Ain’t Easy

1
     I could’ve gone
to see Pound while he was
still in the hospital.
But my mother-in-law hates him
     and it would’ve killed her.
So I just let
           the crazyman be;
     him & Fords,
     Jags, Land Rovers, etc.
2
One of the
           must-read poets
     said he couldn’t write
           with stubble on his chin;
     called for
           a holiday for writing.
In other words,
     a good time
     to swear off coffee,
     not to get too gassed.
3
                        Ezra Brooks
bourbon you say you
           were drinking.
But why then
     do I smell lime
     on your breath—
I am not a teetotaller,
     not a prohibitionist. I know
     there is no cuba libre 
for whiskey,
     none for fascists
the world around.

German ‘Scapes

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No, I Didn’t Hear That One

knock knock
I don’t care who walks into a bar
or who’s there
or how many so-and-so chickens
                      it takes
to screw in a lightbulb
or what the lawyer said
to his shoe or what religion
the shoe was
                      I’m not waiting
I’m not waiting who
for the punchline
of that joke you’re supposed to tell
                      all dirty
and when a phone rings in the bar
& is Jacques Strappe there?
           I’m crossing the road

and you shouldn’t have to ask me why

Mike Bacsik

           —BASIC. 756*         "Toss the ball back." Like they did in Wrigley        when I was young.     When a home run          meant the ball left home     & if you wanted it back            you had to run after it            as it rolled down Waveland...