what i hate

(haiku)

i hate algorithms

determining what i like

or what i should buy

and auto-checkouts

asking me if i'm finished

when i hesitate

and the soulless push

down into technology

i can do without

simple haiku

america first

really means america

will blow you up first

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you got bad good guys

and a lot of good bad guys 

swaying the masses

to and fro they bend

like trees on the horizon

far, far over there

elementary

(haiku)

like raising children,

you tell them this will happen

and they ignore you

then when it happens

they can't believe it happened

and get mad at you

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when it is proven

they are totally inept

and ineffective

they will turn on them

who whole heartily believed

every word they said

four years in

(haiku)

i wanted substance,

a depth of understanding

that could rival mine

but when i arrived

i saw learned men playing

on the monkey bars

and great orators

lip syncing nursery rhymes

for they had no voice

i saw small people

hunting down smaller people,

both scurried like mice

and i knew somehow
the world i was once fond of
no longer exists

daily haiku

surfing the channels

commercials on all but one

the one i don't watch

not like in movies

where they turn on the TV

right to the right show

but we have to wait

till the commercials are done

more and more we wait

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i don't like titles
they always seem so contrived,
so after the fact

in the quiet of old age

at seventy you wonder 

what kind of monster lives in the cellar

making itself known

as it slowly ascends dry squeaky stairs

ever so slowly it creeps,
a limp, a groan, every breath a wheeze

and you try to ignore

this thing that might be coming for you

just a thought

(haiku)

very well could be

a high tech society

cannot be governed

by low tech ideals

whenever it's attempted

chaos will erupt

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jesus said it best,

new wine into old vessels

causes them to burst