UPCOMING HAIKU SLAMS

The 411 on upcoming Sovthern Gothic Fvtvrist Haiku Slams.

• FRIDAY OCTOBER 25 - ROANOKE VA - THE HOPE CENTER

First event in Roanoke, at the Hope Center, a community center located at 506 11th Street. Being it's our first event we'll be looking for competitors that can help set it off just right for our first event in the Star City.

• SATURDAY NOVEMBER 23 - CHARLOTTESVILLE VA - TWISTED BRANCH TEA BAZAAR

OUR YEAR END EVENT! Featuring a Tournament of Haiku Death Matches, plus two open battle royals between tournament rounds. The 8 competitors for the final tournament championship of 2019 will be announced on social media.

I do also have an official (lol) website now, with a page on haiku slams there as well - check it out - and book me to come do one of these things in your neck of the woods.

1M4G1N4RY T0VRN4M3NTS...

imaginary tournaments

in my head, early Sunday

morning, at quiet Rives Park

TH0S3 B3M04N1NG TH3 W0RLD'S 3ND...

those bemoaning the world's end

underestimate nature's

power (as humans tend to)

STR41GHT L1N3S 4TT3MPT1NG T0 M4K3...

straight lines attempting to make

order of fractals which were

designed with astro logic

TH0VGHTS BL0SS0M FR0M 1D10T'S...

thoughts blossom from idiot's

mind, which quickly scatters them

all digitized directions

C0NT3MPL4T1NG P0W3R M0V3S...

contemplating power moves

off the digital grid, since

effort far outweighs returns

L0NGH41R3D R3DN3CKS TH4T L0V3 TRVMP...

longhaired rednecks that love Trump

and believe blue lives matter

are delusional as fuck

P4R4D1NG 4R0VND TH3 Y4RD...

parading around the yard,

clutching my glorious cock (which is an award winner)

3NT1T13S 0F S0L4R FL4R3...

entities of solar flare

trapped in human form which

walk amongst you, half-ignored

W0VLD L0V3 T0 H4V3 B0VGHT TH1S 0LD...

would loved to have bought this old

T-bird, added digital

dash, sub-woofer, candyflake

4TT3MPTS T0 D1R3CT M3 H4V3...

attempts to direct me have

always been met with stubborn

resistance; got that goat heart

4M1DST TH3 D3TR1TVS...

amidst the detritus

of civilization shall

life continue to blossom

V4C4NT B0X ST0R3S W1TH BR0K3N...

vacant box stores with broken

glass doors hidden around side -

permanent vagrancy signs

D3C4Y1NG 1NDVSTR14L...

decaying industrial

landscape blessed by color blasts -

capital's dying returns

L4Y3RS 0F V4ND4L1SM...

layers of vandalism

creating a resistant

patina of fuck shit up

SPR4Y P41NT1NG D3CL4R4T10NS...

spray painting declarations

of warning in drippy black from

the Wal-Mart an hour away

P0L1T1C4L V14GR4...

political viagra

dosages secretly slid

in subconscious through missives

SONG OF THE DAY: Lingerie

I’m not sure if I can still love Lizzo in a conscious way, as she’s quickly been adopted by neoliberal dreams and will likely be a Democratic Presidential candidate theme song next year. But in the subconscious way, I still like to imagine a don’t-give-a-fuck woman sitting around in lingerie because she was born ready. So I’ll just listen to this and pretend a thick woman is gonna sit on my face, and ignore the part where that raw spirit will be co-opted by a conglomerate of wealthy entities who believe they have a better vision for the future of America’s generation of empirical profits than the current conglomerate of wealthy entities, who are doing it all wrong. Fuck politics. Somebody come sit on my face.

S0 M4NY N0T10NS BL0SS0M 1N...

so many notions blossom in

mind, but body lacks the space

to make them reality

4TT3MPT1NG T0 F1ND F0CVS...

attempting to find focus

in world full of distractions;

age creeping in like kudzu

B3 TH4NKFVL F0R WH4T Y0V'V3 G0T...

"Be Thankful For What You've Got"

moments galore, but never

had cars that shine like mirrors

SONG OF THE DAY: Tamasheq

digital nomads not actually moving 
the reason noise music has become prominent 
is because it's the only way to hear 
above the constant buzzing din 
of dullard engineering 
doldrums of existence 

even if what you are as a people 
has been disconnected from the past 
and plugged into false histories 
one-inch deep and easily washed away 
by flood or fire 
you are still something else entirely 
than this you have consumed 
something else that has metaphysical genetics 
that go back to ancient wanderers 

this buzzing din of dullard engineering 
doldrums of existence is not 
your innate sound 
so make some fuckin' noise 
scare away the devils 

G0T 4B4ND0NM3NT 1SSV3S...

got abandonment issues

but stubborn mentality

(like old beat-up white work van)

W4LK1NG THR0VGH 4RT MVS3VM...

walking through art museum

curated by trespassers,

admiring unseen artists

SONG OF THE DAY: Poetica Pedagogica

Whenever I'm around too many LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT types, I wanna leave it. It doesn't feel like home, and even what felt like home ain't home any more, so I get to make my own home the rest of my life. So leaving it is always an option. But then when I get away from all those LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT people, and am around a bunch of other people, who ain't all up in arms about loving it or leaving it, I tend to love it. I guess the lesson is your life ain't the flag in front of the cop building so much as the people you're surrounded by. If you need some real life help, you're gonna run into a lot more people before a single flag comes along. And don't call the cops. They'll just fuck everything up.