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"The world reaction is very much like when a two year old has grabbed a loaded gun."

"the commodore's watch"

a chuckling of geese chases
bard's task through the mingled dusk
from Grodek a grisly taisk

over suchlike Vlad fusses

'neath the moon so much withers
in each corner the caked dust
breeds new veils of amethyst
soldier sleeps with his brothers

recrudescent the fell plague

crossed a crystal-crust parcel
packed a cursed pot of basil
elevators drew my darg
in those days sands of Baja
while another desert roared

gift to make riddle less hard
yet too late aimed aloha
used the work printer humming
line by line built a hamster
run & rocket-thrust dumpster
wipe our worst hist'ry damning
caught in masking ape-contest
burning flesh be our incense
under pressure the contents

bleak parables of incest
a chuckling of geese chases

Tanka.

"Jean Cocteau said he preferred cats to dogs because no one has ever seen a police cat."
– Michel Tournier via @jacobwren.bsky.social

Haiku.