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		     new haiku
     still
     mercifully short
	
	
	
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		old frog in old pond
tries to croak ~
creak
	
	
	
	
		
	
 
 
	
	
	
		
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		     new frog in old pond
     can't croak ~
     still wet behind the ears
	
	
	
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		mute frogs in old pond
feet signing “croak”
sound of silence
	
	
	
	
		
	
 
 
	
	
	
		
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		     dyslexic frogs in old pond
     consonants disobeying 
     the sound of vowels flying
	
	
	
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		lexicon sunken in pond
frogs study “croak”
till all letters float
	
	
	
	
		
	
 
 
	
	
	
		
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		     old book
     words  
     leaking out 
	
	
	
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		old pond trenched
water leaking out
frogs freaking out
	
	
	
	
		
	
 
 
	
	
	
		
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		maple mosaic
on flat fog
old pond invisible
	
	
	
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		roadworks
at the old pond 
flat frogs
	
	
	
	
		
	
 
 
	
	
	
		
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		flat frogs
swim in an old pond
of formalin
	
	
	
	
		
	
 
 
	
	
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		 (07-29-2017, 01:11 PM)RiverNotch Wrote:   flat frogs
 flat frogs
swim float in an old pond
of formalin
	 
	
	
	
		
	
 
 
	
	
	
		
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		formalin diluted by rain
mutagenic traces remain
new frogs in old pond looking strange
	
	
	
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		     old pond
     Jimi Hendrix played here
     mutagenic traces remain 
	
	
	
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		acid dropped
in old pond
mutagenic frogs trip out
	
	
	
	
		
	
 
 
	
	
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		acid
from the factory
killed all the frogs
	
	
	
	
		
	
 
 
	
	
	
		
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		frog
tripped on acid
revives in pond
	
	
	
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		Acid-croaked throat
mistakes pond water
for lemondrop
(hi, ray 

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		Trump Pond
big Kim jumps in—
a wake