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by Beppe Wolgers \| hhh Hhh
by Mother Goose \| The Tarts
by Elizabeth Jennings \| Answers Answers
by Muhammad Ali \| Me — wheee! Me — wheee!
by Derek Walcott \| The Sea Is History The Sea Is History
by A R Ammons \| Their Sex Life One failure on Top of another
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe \| TO THE CHOSEN ONE HAND in hand! and lip to lip!
by Jack Kerouac \| Haiku The taste of rain —Why kneel?
by Matsuo Basho \| A bee A bee staggers out of the peony.
by Louise Bogan \| Solitary Observation Brought Back From A Sojourn In Hell At midnight tears Run in your ears.
by Muhammad Ali \| I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
by Yosa Buson \| Old well Old well, a fish leaps-- dark sound.
by Kobayashi Issa \| Napped half the day Napped half the day; no one punished me!
by Kobayashi Issa \| In spring rain In spring rain a pretty girl yawning.
by Yosa Buson \| Sparrow singing Sparrow singing-- its tiny mouth open.
by Jack Kerouac \| Haiku Birds singing in the dark —Rainy dawn.
by Kobayashi Issa \| Not very anxious Not very anxious to bloom, my plum tree.
by Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings \| l(a l(a le af fa ll s) one l iness
by Barry Tebb \| UPON BEING ASKED WHY I AM NOT WRITING Too much gone wrong – No Muse, no song.
by Kobayashi Issa \| How much How much are you enjying yourself, tiger moth?
by Kobayashi Issa \| Im going out I'm going out, flies, so relax, make love.
by Emily Dickinson \| Society for me my misery Society for me my misery Since Gift of Thee --
by Yosa Buson \| Evening wind Evening wind: water laps the heron's legs.
by Richard Brautigan \| Color As Beginning Forget love I want to die in your yellow hair
by Emily Dickinson \| The competitions of the sky The competitions of the sky Corrodeless ply.

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hhh

The Tarts

Answers

Me — wheee!

The Sea Is History

Their Sex Life

TO THE CHOSEN ONE

Haiku

A bee

Solitary Observation Brought Back From A Sojourn In Hell

I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

Old well

Napped half the day

In spring rain

Sparrow singing

Haiku

Not very anxious

l(a

UPON BEING ASKED WHY I AM NOT WRITING

How much

Im going out

Society for me my misery

Evening wind

Color As Beginning

The competitions of the sky