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Haikus on Education

i.
I really tried to
pay attention in lecture
(a.k.a. naptime).

ii.
did problems in bed.
left the calculator there
for the exam. crap.

iii.
"have you started the—"
"no." commence ironic laugh.
we're dead. we're dead we're

iv.
physics physcis phis
ysc centripetal accel
eration? theta?!

Homegoing

There's a war-torn husk
you've left behind, that bears your
eyes, your hands, your feet -

but faithful soldier
finally free, you're taken
home at last. At last.

Promise

we say ‘forever’:
ignored, eternity’s breadth
and our own weak hands.

August

tree shadows stretch long
on cooling crab-grass, drenched with
summer's dying tears.

this is so late because I

just watched BBC
Sherlock. He talks too fast, but
it's still wonderful.

Haiku Conversation

This happened on Thursday night.
--

Haleigh, 9:20pm:
The night grows short and
my patience grows shorter still.
Post, you poet, you!

Me, 9:35pm:
i'll write a poem,
but i have one calc problem
left for me to do.

Haleigh, 10:24pm:
that wasn't a hai
ku. If you'd said "I will," it
would have been one, though.

Me, 10:30pm:
what? Haleigh Swansen
says that word as "pome" instead
of "po-em"? how strange.

Haleigh, 11:02pm:
people who say it
that way say "poe-UM", my dear.
That's not right, either.

Me, 11:10pm:
I stand corrected
on that second syllable,
but there are still two.

Haleigh, 11:16pm:
I just read the link...
OK. I'm the faulty one.
You are free to mock.