Just in time for #NationalPoetryMonth, the amazing team at Exterminating Angel Press has dropped the Spring 23 issue of their magazine on the theme of Recipes for Disaster. Tons of typically enjoyable, amusing, and insightful writing. Happy as always to be included in the proceedings. Please enjoy my succinct appraisal of the State of the Union, Haiku style — and check out the issue (support our independent lit mags!!!)
Six Haikus for America, 2023
Capital Ism
How do we expect
All that wealth to trickle down
If we enforce laws?
Windows of the Soulless
Our eyes reveal all.
So we spray Windex on them;
Wonder why we’re blind.
Whitey Pluribus Unum
White lives do matter,
That’s how our country was born:
It takes a village.
Trump Stakes
It’s not that complex:
Quisling born rich without class,
Well-done, with ketchup.
Free Dumb
The rich earn each cent.
The poor deserve what they get,
Freedom is not free.
The Indivisible Hand
Is willing to kill
Everything except cliché:
No ending’s happy.
