I tell other people to write, write, write, even if it’s practice rather than product. And here’s what happens when I tell myself that. Probably these are more dabbles than haiku, but they are of that family. I’m flummoxed with the spacing, so pretend they are single spaced.

Totally modern

woman with a phone, no calls

Smartest phone of all

It’s hair dye or else

new brand of agent orange

That hair could kill us

Cold bottled water

thirst quenching throw away

Plastic assassin

Dying of boredom

killing time again today

Guilty as charged

Reader gasping hard

near me in the coffee shop

takes my breath away