Sport 42: 2014
Uther Dean — Haiku
Uther Dean
Haiku
#0067
Two cannibals eat
Each other until they are
Just two kissing mouths.
#0156
All fluorescent tubes
Are filled with tiny fairies.
Begging for your help.
#0175
Sue tore up her will,
Drank the serum. Fuck the kids.
She’d live forever.
#0176
Remodel your house
By flying into a rage
And smashing her stuff.
#0178
All the sad robots
Pretend to robot smile
At their robot friends.
#0182
Peter Painter smiles.
His watercolour teeth smudge
When he grins in the rain.
page 103
#0414
When he ruled the world
Dr Robotz would show it
His sweet, tender heart.
#0558
The complexity
Of everyone else’s lives
Is overwhelming.
#0561
My latest mantra:
‘None of this is important.
You have enough love.’
#0569
It’s very easy
To feel like you’re doing things.
(You’re really dying.)
#0570
On a sinking ship
The captain embraced the crew
And became their raft.
#0581
I still remember
My best childhood bullies.
They made sure of that.
#0582
Kids can be so cruel.
So we should cave in their skulls
With big cinder-blocks.
page 104
#0598
Tim’s misogyny
Seemed like ironic joking.
But was genuine.
#0641
When drowning in work
Allow it to flood your lungs
Then: euphoria.
#0644
When my leg brushed yours
On the Strathmore 44
My heart exploded.
#0645
My man-size pillow
Has a single hand to hold
And a beating heart.
#0663
Then he starts crying
Can’t stop and turns into sand.
(How we get beaches.)
#0672
The giant pimple
At the centre of your chest
Pops, oozing out love.