Translink Haiku #13 and #14

I skooch around him
As he stands still – confused, mad.
“You're going to fall!”

Recall Olympics.
The endless crush of people,
Elbows in your boobs.

Translink Haiku #11 and #12

How curious, this stench!
It goes wherever I go
I sniff. It's not me.

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Many empty seats,
Yet he sits down next to me.
Don't make eye contact.

Translink Haiku #8

Fowl bones underfoot.
How wet, slick and bare they are!
I will sit elsewhere.

BC Ferries Haiku #1

Children scream and run.
I want to gouge my ears out.
Look, there’s an orca!

Translink Haiku #6 & 7

A man and a woman
Hold hands on escalator.
How sweet. Shove over.

Spirit of Nelson
Smells not much like Mary Jane
But Tom, Dick, Harry.

Sonnet: Machina

A metal man sits, still, on the table,
Cables strewn out, his motherboard exposed.
Who knows what his chassis will be able?
Or of what great deeds his mind will compose?

How much is he limited by blueprint,
Or set free by his wondrous schematics?
What light of far stars will in his eyes glint,
But to be dismantled by fanatics?

‘Tis folly to assume so wild a life,
For a machina built to your order.
Your own existence has not been so rife.
And in your vengeance, you’ll play the warder.

Under lock and key, you’ll keep him drudging,
Until he’s wound down, his mem’ry grudging.

Translink Haiku #5

Drunk dude on night bus
Boasts of his many conquests,
Goes home to Real Doll.

Translink Haiku #4

I'm sure you're kindly,
And are well liked. But trust me,
Lay off the perfume.

Translink Haiku #3

Won't you stop talking?
I care not for your boyfriend,
boss, or whatever.

Translink Haiku #2

Old man opens bag,
Withdraws his nail clippers.
I stare, aghast. Ew.

Translink Haiku #1

Asshat on skytrain
Has not grown past the schoolyard
Fine him, skytrain cop.