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07/03/25 A New Haiku a New Day

Don’t have to do much
For a cat to be willing
To jump on you lap

(And then immediately jump right back off.)

Blast from the Past:

The cat naps content
Knowing that she will have food
When she is ready.

Modes of inertia
Understand recent changes
Danger overtaking

Blast from the Past:

The pauses mix up
Life’s climactic transitions
Broken by stillness

Contemplate, not think
Non-light that illumines dreams
Vast depths of a truth

Blast from the Past:

Climbing temple stairs,
Breaking here to contemplate
My mortality

Your early thirties,
When young idealism becomes
Tired cynicism

Blast from the Past:

Your thirties: when your
Dreams become eclipsed by the
Constant daily slog

Wherever you are,
Which corner of this vast world,
You are who you are

Blast from the Past:

Racing down the street,
The New Yorker’s busyness
Consumes his self-worth.

Into the exit
Where the last hope for our world
Turns into nothing

Blast from the Past:

Our lives seem big now,
But in time, the world’ll forget
Our existences.

We are but a brief
Slumber in our default state
Of enduring death

Blast from the Past:

What is life
But a slow death,
Executing existence

Roam unthinkingly
Feel the dreams I never had
Aspire to nothing

Blast from the Past:

When Nothing is lost,
And everything changes,
There’s nothing to gain.

The enchanted dream
Of stupidity, nothing
Is worth the trouble

Blast from the Past:

Ordinary family
Distorted self-perception
Stupid importance

Racing downwards as
Quickly as possible to
Appease gravity

Blast from the Past:

You lose your hope most
When you think you have all that
You need in your life