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13 Haiku About My Husband and Current State of Happiness

                  he has a lizard
    
        in his mouth        it flicks        it flicks
        
          seismic me he sends


i understand how
    to conduct a proper love affair
on paper


medium pasta shells garlic cheese broccoli saturday dinner


i caught my husband
            pretending to be a fly
                        buzzing around shit


                        i love my husband’s

                        pajama bottoms i en-

                        vision his demise


wounded prehistoric beasts whine or
a husband practices trumpet


hot tea milk and honey hot tea milk and honey hot tea milk and hon


            i did not paint you
                  while i dreamt about albert
            goldbarth i did not


happy all day            i have been leaping off of fat                         margins into
                                                                                                                   space           

scream into snowbanks you get
fogged glasses also great views of nothing


he smokes smells lets out
noxious fumes from his butt hole
wrinkled by much use


i caught my husband again buzzing near the trash in his underwear


                                  he has a good face
                                  i love him even as i
                                  buy life insurance

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