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Sport 42: 2014

Uther Dean — Haiku

page 102

Uther Dean

Haiku

#0067
Two cannibals eat
Each other until they are
Just two kissing mouths.

#0156
All fluorescent tubes
Are filled with tiny fairies.
Begging for your help.

#0175
Sue tore up her will,
Drank the serum. Fuck the kids.
She’d live forever.

#0176
Remodel your house
By flying into a rage
And smashing her stuff.

#0178
All the sad robots
Pretend to robot smile
At their robot friends.

#0182
Peter Painter smiles.
His watercolour teeth smudge
When he grins in the rain. page 103

#0414
When he ruled the world
Dr Robotz would show it
His sweet, tender heart.

#0558
The complexity
Of everyone else’s lives
Is overwhelming.

#0561
My latest mantra:
‘None of this is important.
You have enough love.’

#0569
It’s very easy
To feel like you’re doing things.
(You’re really dying.)

#0570
On a sinking ship
The captain embraced the crew
And became their raft.

#0581
I still remember
My best childhood bullies.
They made sure of that.

#0582
Kids can be so cruel.
So we should cave in their skulls
With big cinder-blocks. page 104

#0598
Tim’s misogyny
Seemed like ironic joking.
But was genuine.

#0641
When drowning in work
Allow it to flood your lungs
Then: euphoria.

#0644
When my leg brushed yours
On the Strathmore 44
My heart exploded.

#0645
My man-size pillow
Has a single hand to hold
And a beating heart.

#0663
Then he starts crying
Can’t stop and turns into sand.
(How we get beaches.)

#0672
The giant pimple
At the centre of your chest
Pops, oozing out love.