Every year in April, I try to do the thirty poems in thirty days challenge. Sometimes it’s easy. Sometimes it’s not. This year, I started slowly, but I started. Today I invented a new kind of Haiku and I present the following 30 Haiku of Invasive Thoughts. I now consider my oath to do 30/30 fulfilled.
1. April First full moon
Casts knee-deep moonlight and laughs.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
2. Baseball field’s greening
With a prickle of North wind.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
3. Peepers and tweeters
Sing long into the darkness
Trump’s a piece of shit.
4. Can anything be
More joyful than your breast curve?
Trump’s a piece of shit.
5. Almost cut my hair
But remembered why it’s long:
Trump’s a piece of shit.
6. Remember when we
Were young and still loved living?
Trump’s a piece of shit.
7. Tartans are protests.
My tartan is plain, simple.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
8. Clarabell the Clown
Had wild, crazy orange hair.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
9. Red sun peeps over
The misty blue horizon.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
10. Sunday comics died.
So did Saturday cartoons.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
11. Cold frog sits in mud,
Frowning at all sitting near.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
12. It is now April.
So why call it March Madness?
Trump’s a piece of shit.
13. My love throws signals,
Pheromones drift to your brain.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
14. We, literally,
Use “literally” too much.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
15. At seventy-five
I’m still lusty, just slower.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
16. Send me dirty pics.
They just might help clear my mind.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
17. I’ve been dieting.
Do calories pay tariffs?
Trump’s a piece of shit.
18. Hit baseball batsman
Grunts an expletive loudly.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
19. Fires out west, floods here.
Tornadoes rake the alley.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
20. Mackinac Island,
The crown jewel of the Straits.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
21. Of all the women I’ve known,
The one I love the most…
Trump’s a piece of shit.
22. Dog sleeps more than me
But wakes with a whole-heart love.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
23. Beating out a bunt
Feels better than a stock crash.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
24. I work like I am
An Indian Elephant.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
25. Bluebirds adopted
The house I put in the yard.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
26. He walks his old dog.
They both wince on a bad hip.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
27. The best of teachers
Learn far more than they can teach.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
28. The gift of patience
Was given in my absence.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
29. Can ice cream be bad?
I mean evil, not just old.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
30. I believe in truth.
I believe in plain language.
Trump’s a piece of shit.
PS I used Clarabell’s image without permission. I really hope it is in the public domain. But if it’s not, and they arrest me, remember: Trump’s a piece of shit.