Why Not Now Because: ImproVerse Haiku

A writer friend, Mimi Allin, posted this on Facebook:
“why not now?”

to which I responded:

Why not now? does not

need to be asked if it has

already been done.

Where’s Donovan’s Hurdy-Gurdy Man? Haiku

When you get older/
you might ask: “Where’s Donovan’s/
Hurdy-Gurdy Man?”

(Here’s the song. I JUST learned Jimmy Page (Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin) played guitar on this!)

If face masks can’t stop
the stench of six smokes, how can
they stop viruses?

How do you compete/
in life’s game when Big Brother/
keeps changing the rules?

If we think people/
are throwing us under the /
bus, we should ask them.

It doesn’t matter/
who’s in power. They all do/
good and bad. Seek good.
—Post-election, pre-inauguration wisdom from the Old Woman of the Woods

Though that black pill is/
hard and bitter to swallow, /
I must have more faith.

Now that Trump’s out of/
office, will his haters be
nice, kind and loving?

Your back may scream in /
agony, but poetry /
needs to be written.*

(or)
screams to be written.

Heavenly Father /
is in charge, which means that the/
best is yet to come.
#pulpitwisdom #truth