@VoluntaryJapan 25 August 2021 edited more from that month

Short Poems/Haiku — Vol. II

**Lepers** Buddha’s balls have been clipped Christ died for nothing Screaming of babies from a nursery on a gray, stuffy, random day just before fall The illusion of sickness now a clever excuse And now to be unremarkable, is amply rewarded A race of cowards And yet: Resplendent faces prevail Shining beautiful new diseases into the world Our human kinship leprosy The timid passers by avoid us I’d love to leave it at that. But they have smelled blood, and in their emptiness, gathered a taste for it *********** **June morning** Big puffy cloud like a cotton ball smell of cut grass and weeds Honeysuckle, a crow's call Hot sun is my savior Glowing on bare skin cracking my back Restoring my mind The cars on the road are in a separate world Cloistered and troubled I'm in heaven These fresh vibrant mornings Should never be wasted on worrying What the hell are we doing? *********** **Silence** the air is full of uncertainty there is no real community haphazard run-ins with the way it's supposed to be but they're few and far between signal to noise now upside down voices from megaphones speakers from crowns but the whisper I hear is now growing loud and it keeps me awake at night stashing implements, treasures, and tools in a modest fashion prepare for encroachment of humans turned ghouls, devoid of honest passion the greatest disease is knowing the only cure is action but now, just eerie silence *********** *Volume I, here.* https://read.cash/@VoluntaryJapan/short-poemshaiku-vol-i-200f698a