HARRIS HAIKU

Revised:At 4 a.m Friday morning, I woke up from a dead sleep and wrote a haiku called "Calm a La Harris." I revised and texted it to my son Noah about 2:20 pm and he wrote back "Holy shit, he's out!!"

By Claudia Ricci and Richard Kirsch

Calm a la Harris

Maybe — our next President?

God no bullets fly

OOPS my husband and I finished composing this haiku almost exactly when the President was announcing his decision to leave the race. So now we are revising it, with gratitude towards ee cummings poem (below):

Calm a la Harris

Our next President please

God

No more bullets fly

[Buffalo Bill’s]

BY E. E. CUMMINGS

Buffalo Bill ’s

defunct

               who used to

               ride a watersmooth-silver

                                                                  stallion

and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat

                                                                                                     Jesus

he was a handsome man 

                                                  and what i want to know is

how do you like your blue-eyed boy

Mister Death