Posts Tagged ‘starving’

Yesterday Once More Tomorrow: Revolutionary ImproVerse Haiku

November 10, 2012

For my daughter I/
wish it was “Yesterday Once/
More”, and tomorrow.

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Other Comfortably Numb: Revolutionary ImproVerse Haiku

November 9, 2012

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

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Giving Her Control: Revolutionary ImproVerse Rhyming Haiku

October 19, 2012

She felt as though she/
had no control, so I gave/
it back. It’s now hers.

Or
it back. She must do.
Or
… so I quit
helping her escape.

Written after my daughter claimed she had no control in her life, then called me begging me to come get her from a treatment center she could leave on her own.

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