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I am Attending To a Sunrise in Jamaica

First Full Day — morning

I am attending to a sunrise in Jamaica.  Rightly I am not awake yet.  Waves, waves, dolorous waves.  Peltering shores at dayfall.

Why is it getting light in the west before it gets light in the east? The east is dark, blue.  A tiny boat out ripping the water is black.

Last night a jumbo airliner flew in from Costa Rica, I’m sure of it.

Brett got a taste, Pat a tree.  I put a tiny leaf in my pocket & smiled at the smell.



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Misc. Haiku 66-70

66

The cloth
    kept wet
under the pin

67

    getting past
things past —
    naked in the meramec.

68

    a whole napkin
for a single
    fly

69

You gotta do this,
    you gotta do that —
we’re all lawyers

70

In the time
I’ve written this I’ve gotten
Two spam messages

Misc. Haiku 61-65

61
When I closed my eyes
The sun went behind a cloud,
And it was Friday

62
I can remember
When I didn’t even know
What Lowe’s was

63
On a branch silhouetted
By my neighbor’s window,
A cardinal braces

64
In the midst
Of a roaring party,
An old coffee cup, broken

65
As I wonder
At a light bulb —
It bursts in my face

John Randall

There’s people I haven’t met called John Randall.
There’s a guy who’s sick and shoeless in bed called John Randall.
There’s a man with tattoos and a tie on, singing a song called “John Randall.”

There’s a fifty year-old governor who just drove his precocious
aide to the top of a hill named John Randall.
There he is in bed again, still with his shoes off, John Randall.

They’ve got their arms around each other, asking someone to take a photograph.

With a pillow over his head, John Randall.
They don’t realize it’s a tabloid reporter, byline John Randall.

He’s in the back of a portrait of a bunch of people in an apartment drinking Bud Light.  He is drinking a beer called John Randall.
He’s holding it there — not someone else, John Randall.

In the seventies his hair was way long and wavy, John Randall.
He has drinking buddies in college and there is lots of promiscuous sex, John Randall.

Out to pizza with his family, look at that cute dog there, oh, that little squirt, look at him he’s so cute.  Now the dog is barking, the barking is driving him nuts, actually making him physically sick, causing him to think, God, if a dog is this bad, how the hell am I gonna have a kid named John Randall, Jr?


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