Gilmore Tamny is a writer, musician and artist living in Somerville, MA. She is a committed artist, feminist, rawker, lover of paintings and audiobook junkie. She may have also made the very first infomercial for a book of poetry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUNcvKI0hLc&feature=youtu.be&spfreload=10. Here is a sampling of Haiku … for you.

Gilmore Tamny

the strong bad coffee
is not any better than
the weak bad coffee

perfumey smell cloud
in center of apartment
hmm why what how huh

love vanquishes death
kinda but not quite as much
as I had hoped for

I felt so lucky
and so very unlucky
today confusing

why do some people’s
eyes seem to be glittering
when others do not

there’s no one else who
has ever known what I know
what a shame maybe

my lying oven
three hundred fifty degrees
my ass you traitor

spy podcast teaches
history is elusive
ugly weird dumb

our self-righteousness
the great human affliction
just so exhausting

cloud gliding like barge
as barge is drifting like cloud
certain neatness there
wait wait wait wait wait
HEY I can’t keep up wait WAIT
oh never mind go

sun moon stars arrange
into chorus of high kicks
that’s entertainment

surely someone has
fashioned a balaclava
out of baklava

shoes hanging from rack
drop like hard rain on my head
very annoying

cyclist on sidewalk
I give him venomous stare
we both know too much

is anything more
handsome than paul newman’s ribs
probably but what

all those snickers bars
wilting in the bodegas
on a summer night

pen on the counter
got washed along with the rest
of the days dishes

cereal brownies
my worst idea ever
trash now warm with them

— Gilmore Tamny

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