We Don’t Criticize Falling: Revolutionary ImproVerse Haiku

When we guide our kids/
as they learn to walk, we don’t/
criticize their falls.

Other Comfortably Numb: Revolutionary ImproVerse Haiku

“Comfortably Numb” is/
not just drug- or booze-induced./
Starving feels that way.

Ugly cow, fat slob,/
worthless, pathetic bitch is/
what she always hears.

If you voted, then/
complain all you want. If you/
didn’t, then shut up.

I’m still proud to be/
an American. I’m not/
proud of bad choices.

For the first morning/
in nearly 4 years I wake/
with almost no hope.

You told me to go/
away, although I didn’t/
want to. I’ll obey.

You told me to go/
away. Although I didn’t/
want to, I’ll obey.

By the dawn’s early/
light, I’ll exercise my right/
to vote in freedom.

I don’t understand/
friendships where you withdraw or/
hide when you’re strug’gling.

What I always dreamed/
as a possibility/
is now too distant.