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Freedom Celebration

routine traffic stop
guilty of driving while Black
Independance Day

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Shirin Neshat

July 26, 2009 at 3:39 AM

good one.

James Fraser

July 9, 2009 at 12:38 PM

Great Haiku James, this happens in the bigger cities in the UK>>James

Denis Joe

July 7, 2009 at 1:47 PM

I like this James. At first I read it too quick and I lost the sense of the poem. But this is an excellent use of the form. I like the colloquialism of the second line – which is what threw me – and the brevity of the poem undermines the enorminity of the narrative. This is a brilliant use of the form and is truly a western approach. What I like so much is that the reader can see that thought has gone into this and it isn’t just something jotted down and arranged into syllables.