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My unreasonable expectations have often led me down the path of irrational exuberance.

  • Awful

    Stock photo of bust, baby, fruit wedge held in a gloved stand pom pom chattering teeth bug bear in sliced fruit and pom pom on the lawn from Pexels.com
    Photo by Adam Stuart on Pexels.com
    The world as always
    Has been a blend of awful
    Plus wonderfulness
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  • Passage

    A.I. image generated from haiku text of a view through textured cave opening to colorful mountain and wildflower meadow under sky
    Viscous dark passage
    Back when paradise was young
    Enticing entry
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  • Barging

    Stock photo of a small model town with a large intrusive entity stalking Main Street from Pexels.com
    Photo by Ramon Karolan on Pexels.com
    small worlds fill quickly
    when big lies come barging through
    doors uninvited
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  • Screen

    Stock footage of face to face edit suite screens from Pexels.com
    Photo by RDNE Stock project on Pexels.com
    when I close my eyes 
    I dream of weeks spent on mere
    seconds of screen time
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  • Glitch

    Stock photo of a person looking over the edge standing on a rocky ledge with a long drop ahead from Pexels.com
    Photo by Stephen Leonardi on Pexels.com
    on the precipice 
    of a gulch there was a glitch 
    stopped me with a gulp
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  • Distraction

    Stock photo of a single small human figure climbing a massive set of stairs outside a mountainous edifice from Pexels.com
    Photo by Mike van Schoonderwalt on Pexels.com
    One more example
    Etch a deadly quest for show
    Distraction d'état
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  • Mopery

    Stock B & W photo of a man in a suit adjusting his tie from Pexels.com
    Photo by Jordan Bergendahl on Pexels.com
    Blatant crime charge jam
    First degree mopery rap
    Late on the upbeat
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  • Decoration

    Stock photo of large expanse of headstones in rows from Pexels.com
    Photo by Chad Madden on Pexels.com
    Nations keep filling
    Graves needing decoration
    Fallen history
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  • Civic

    Stock photo of an upheld clenched fist full of money from Pexels.com
    Photo by Jeff Stapleton on Pexels.com
    Being on the take
    Is now a civic virtue
    Hands out. Palms up. Grab.

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  • Conjured

    Stock photo of a youngster sitting on a shore reading from Pexels.com
    Photo by iddea photo on Pexels.com
    Joy of memories
    Conjured up out of nowhere
    A quiet time friend
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  • Respect

    Stock photo of a wilted flower laid on a black slab with the names of the fallen etched into it from Pexels.com
    Photo by James L on Pexels.com
    to earn some respect
    so as to earn affection
    first pay both forward
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  • Sufficiency

    Stock photo of a bombed out landscape of a once inhabitable area of civilization from Pexels.com
    Photo by Sonny Vermeer on Pexels.com
    such things cannot be
    sufficiently despised is
    the correct response
    to corrupt actions taken
    by despotic land grabbers
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  • Focus

    Stock photo of blurred lights through a hole cut in a chain link fence from Pexels.com
    Photo by Stephen Leonardi on Pexels.com
    Ruination notions
    The world blurs into chaos
    When focus is lost
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  • Dotage

    Stock photo of sparks flying off a grinding wheel as it hones a piece of metal from Pexels.com
    Photo by Mahmut Yu0131lmaz on Pexels.com
    Minute by minute
    I ripen in my dotage 
    Decrepitude honed
    Put off to another day
    Evergreen avoidance ways


  • Tub

    Stock photo of a statue of a bearded man huddled while seated on a slab taking cover from the elements Pexel.com
    Photo by Jakub N on Pexels.com
    Diogenes tub
    Filled with regrets of others
    Perverse consciousness

  • Disassemble

    Stock photo of a video game controller reduced to its parts on a workbench from Pexels.com
    Photo by FOX ^.u11bd.^= u222b on Pexels.com
    When cravings of youth
    Disassemble to beset  
    Torments of the old

  • Scarcity

    Stock photo of a gas pump with a hand made Sold Out sign on it from Pexels.com
    Photo by K on Pexels.com
    Glaring scarcity
    Of cognitive clarity
    Pains the world to see

  • Crisis

    Stock B & W photo of human fingers hanging on for dear life to something from Pexels.com
    Photo by UMUT DAu011eLI on Pexels.com
    when in the grip of
    an existential crisis
    best to just exist

  • Matata

    Stock B&W photo of a cat looking back at a person walking away from Pexels.com
    Photo by Emrecan Algu00fcl on Pexels.com
    from time to time I
    admit walking back the cat
    to know where I went
    and chill in the lacuna
    of the matata I've seen

  • Embers

    Stock photo of glowing red embers in a small heap of ash on the floor from Pexels.com
    Photo by Sergio Arteaga on Pexels.com
    Together we burned
    Shimmer through the night til dawn
    Embers glowed til noon

  • Aphotic

    Stock photo of deep sea diver kicking up an obscuring cloud of silt walking on sea bottom from Pexels.com
    Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com
    current regime wants
    to drown the public in dark 
    aphotic news zone
    where no light sheds on their path
    to enrich their shellfish selves

  • Struggle

    Stock photo of earth mother figurines set in a lush stream bank and forest setting from Pexels.com
    Photo by Anton Massalov on Pexels.com
    mask of a stoic
    worn by Gaia while watching 
    her children struggling
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  • Cast

    Stock photo of Milky Way as seen from the ground among rock formations on earth from Pexels.com
    Photo by Michal Vau0161ko on Pexels.com
    A flurry of stars
    Cast out into the expanse 
    As Milky Way spins
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  • Roost

    A.I. image generated from haiku text of chickens and eggs in a rundown barnyard 
    chickens and the cost
    of empire come home to
    roost in the wreckage
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  • Refuse

    Stock photo of an expansive garbage dump with machinery in the background for trash moving from Pexels.com
    Photo by Tom Fisk on Pexels.com
    Refuse to give in
    To the refuse of things past
    Discarded just cause
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  • Turnip

    Stock photo of a hand holding up a turnip in front of a field from Pexel.com
    Photo by Kristina Paukshtite on Pexels.com
    no external woo
    omen or token of self 
    required for health
    unless a talisman should
    turnip under a pebble

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  • Soiled

    A.I. image generated from haiku text of rusty compressed gas tanks and scattered cans on cracked ground in a deserted industrial area with dilapidated buildings and oil pumpjacks in the background
    Resources soiled
    Bottled water and canned food
    Air will be sold soon

  • Shrug

    Stock photo of a statue with Atlas holding the world on his shoulders from Pexels.com
    Photo by Merve Erten on Pexels.com
    I got a boulder
    On my shoulder trying to crush
    Me as I moulder 

    It's what I can do
    As I try to mitigate
    Sorrows of the world

  • Unwise

    Stock photo of two hands reaching out to touch index fingers over white stucco background from Pexels.com
    Photo by Arturo Au00f1ez. on Pexels.com
    unwise blood stirred up
    feel the fervor murmur
    from a single touch
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  • Overlay

    Stock photo off a scrumptious roast beast on an oven rack from Pexels.com
    Photo by Jonathan Borba on Pexels.com
    Lazy afternoon
    Kitchen comfort overlay
    Smell the Sunday roast
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