SAFETY HAIKU
                                               for Dave Johnson

Costume Shop

safety pins are your
rabbit's feet — may they
find you when needed

Red Train

Teacher yells on the
1 or 9 — wakes up all us
sleepy commuters

Blue Dogs (by Dave)

lips lip sad songs
relax in the pose known best
nippling in the night without you

Boat

Bell bottoms as big
as sails — she tries to get the
ghost hair out of her mouth

Lowesohn Secret MDCCCIV

Corner stone laid on
October THIRTY-FIRST
building Halloween

Green

Grounds worker hedge trimmer
gives unruly green bushes
buzzcuts in the sun

Colophon

This pierced book made from
materials at hand — un
limited edition

 

July 1998

 

 

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