Appropriated texts recontextualised as haiku

Too bad she won't live
Dreaming of electric sheep
Then again, who does?

To Aleppo gone
Thither in a sieve I'll sail
​I'll give the a wind

​Hump day, Shakespeare week
Tomorrow , and tomorrow
Out, out, brief candle

Holding my manhood
Cheap while others speak who fought
On Saint Crispin's Day

A walking shadow
Frets his hour upon the stage
Weary of the sun

Diving into sleep
Breaking through sound and fury
​Into nothingness

I defy thee stars
The fault is in ourselves that
We are underlings

It was not the lark
Nor was it the nightingale
Romeo, that's thrush

​What are these? Steel springs.
Fast as a bloody leopard
Let's see you do it

​Put on your red shoes
We're coming to town bip-bip!
Poor little greenie

​Took it all too far
Making love with his ego
But boy could he play

Ashes to ashes
Want an axe to break the ice
​Planet Earth is blue

You throw it to who?
Throw it to Hu? Naturally!
...Naturally's on first?

Eventually
Neighbours start gossip and drool
Castles made of sand




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Like a setting sun
Needle takes another man
Gone, the damage done

Late night TV binge
Where the bee sux there suck I
Couched when owls do cry


Through the louvres
September winds are urging
​The seizing of days

Money for nothin'
Ain't cultural capital
 Nothin' for money 

The coolest haiku
Are characteristically
​Polysylllabic

Pop psychology
Global flashdance gangnam style
Hey sexy lady

​Heart to the sappers
Soul to the black market man
Last planes almost gone

​Left it all behind
Baby that was years ago
Pinot, aftershave

To keep my house clean
Fix my meals and go away
A man needs a maid

Dejé mi vida
Cuando sali de Cuba
Dejé mi amor

In the memphis Sky
Early morning, April Four
Could not take your pride

​Happy birthday Bob
How many roads must a man
Guess y'all know the rest

Homesick medicine
Thinkin' 'bout the government
I'm in the basement

Old men on the benches
Pray to hear those temples roar
Rows of all-empties

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Shrill demented choirs
Recontextualise grief
​Drawing down of blinds

Garlic, beef, stock, beans
Cumin, cocoa, tomato
​Chilli, kaffir lime

Thinkin' bout Bourdieu
What kind of a soul pirate
​Makes money from art?


Play Sal Paradise
To my Dean Moriarty
Time we hit the road 

Clays of a cold star
If anything could wake him
Toil to wake earth's sleep

Go tell the Spartans
First day of the Somme was spent
​Following orders

Take Oak and laurel,
Our fortune of tears, and live
A spendthrift lover​

Thanks to Edward Lear
(Quote) Who wants a jellyfish?
I'm not sellyfish!

'She's a Monet'
As clueless Cher would say
Or worse... a Renoir

​Nothing I can say
Rare super blood moon total
Eclipse of the heart

Channeling Cyndi
That walk in the sun
That girls wanna have


First Day of School

​Orientation 
Reluctant Protagonists
The naming of parts

Last day of the hols
Last page of an old story
Roads go ever on
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