Oriental Droppings

Hard Candy by Russell Mackensen

Oriental Droppings

Haikus – poems of failure –
Pintsize tweets of mental fluff.
Exotic in regalia,
Just self-congratulating puff.
Strangely obsessed with the weather,
And crushingly serene –
Thinking they’re oh-so-clever
For counting to seventeen.

Yes, that’s right, I said haikus with a pluralising S. If this upsets you, you need to stop speaking English altogether.

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