Madonna,
When drunk,
Told people she was Diego Maradona.
No one believed her,
But it sure didn’t stop her.
© Carl Burkitt 2019
16/8/19 – Madonna
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Falling out with a loved one is
the sun setting on a Sunday.
© Carl Burkitt 2019
Brown
Electrical wires remind me of dad
and how I never listen.
Earth, Live and Neutral.
I remembered that.
Blue, Green & Yellow Stripes and Brown.
I remembered that.
But which was which to fix our light switch?
The Earth is blue.
Maybe it’s that.
But earth, as in dirt, is brown.
Yeah.
It’s got to be that.
Yeah.
Snip.
And then it hit me:
The yellow rays of the sun
help the green grass grow.
Bastard.
Earth is the fucking
stripy green and yellow.
© Carl Burkitt 2019
Ordinary Sex by Ellen Bass
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15/8/19 – Oxlade-Chamberlain
Liverpool football-player
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Hyphenated the-last
Two words-of
Each line-he
Would write-down.
It was-charming
I guess-but
Also tough-to
Read. But-when
Said out-loud
It didn’t-make
A difference-really.
© Carl Burkitt 2019
14/8/19 – Berry
Halle Berry
Really missed being Catwoman.
She went to the local fancy dress shop
But they’d just sold the last catsuit,
So she scuttled up the drainpipe
To cry of the roof
(And eat a dead rat).
© Carl Burkitt 2019
Blinded by the Light
A true crowd pleaser.
Warm, funny and cheesy, it’s
Fair to say it’s…boss.
#HaikuReview | Carl Burkitt
