Marmite, or as I call it, Black Bile

Eleven haiku

Daily Drawing: Greasy hands ~ 10-4-2019 ~ Fountain pen, ink and brush

Y’all are not my friends
My lipstick is all fucked up
None of y’all told me

I learnt how to say
I am a worm-maggot, but
Polite, Korean

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I hate Kerouac
Said the garbage artivist
Except that one thing

He said re. haiku
All that five seven five shit—
Unnecessary

It can just be like
A little chunk of poem
You know, a nugget

American nug-
get, I said, thinking chicken
Dinosaur meme¹

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Despite my fine words
I ate the hand-baked friend-bread
Thinking it dumpstered²

Chicken nugget words
Plastered in the night, city
Becomes a cave wall

I dreamed disco-ball
Light-drops falling on my face
Lemon, Sasha, me

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On the street corner
Outside the Army Surplus
This parting tableau

I will take a knee
Said Garbage Maggot-Worm to
McGillicuddy

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This haiku series was inspired by meeting Kalan Sherrard.

Garbagefest Wellington is happening this Thursday 23rd November³ at Glover Park from 2 p.m.

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Tom Gauld

3. TOMORROW, y’all