Hourly Haikus

I want a cat. I love my apartment right now, but it's lacking something, it doesn't have the soul I want it too. And I think a cat would accomplish that. A little calico kitty drinking out of the sink and sitting on our high chairs, it'd be great. 

I also want a word that means the same thing as love does but for want. Like, I would love to have, but that's too long and the word I want needs to be a one syllable exclamation of extreme desire, but that can be subverted and adapted like love is. 

Anyways, I have hourly haikus to share with you dudes and ladies. They're really hourly haikus and senryus, but that doesn't look as nice as hourly haikus. I think we sometimes forget the visual side of words. Is there physical alliteration, based on what it looks like? I think we don't know how to read without our voices, and that's terrible. I want to write things that just look good, without any meaning beyond what it looks like. Poetry focuses too much on sound, we don't realize the visual side is important too.

Anyways, onto the haikus!

12:46 am

Three guys sitting

around a table -

laughing at riddles.

1:49 am

Crane hovering above

churchyard trees - framed

against the orange sky.

2:01 am

Johnny Depp and

Edmund Spenser hold conversation

in my head.

12:47 pm

Balding heads, unfortunate

facial hair and man 

purses passing by

1:56 pm

Gradient leaves

mourning the loss

of magic.

2:41 pm

Men in white

hats scale the church's

roof.

3:29 pm

Dogs run free in 

the park - six

children on a leash

4:31 pm

The sky darkens

and fuck me, I want

to love you.

5:37 pm

30 cent ramen

and Tiger Woods

losing.

6:29 pm

Girl in front of me

pulls out orange juice

and paper towels.

7:22 pm

Two dollars -

I get a pepsi 

for dinner.

8:42 pm

Like cub scouts -

talking bullshit

in a circle.

9:55 pm

Falling asleep on

a cuddly lady who smells

like banana.

10:58 pm

Discussing the artistic

process and childhood trauma

with laughter.

11:17 pm

Cars speeding

by me and I'm

walking faster.

The End

Ok, I think that turned out ok, definitely some of them are crap, and others are worse, and most are senryus instead of haikus but barely anyone knows the difference these days so who cares, right?

Hope you like them.