Good Housekeeping
She bags her garbage
and throws it on the road for
the pit bulls to eat
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PoliceBlotterHaiku's micropoetry
I write haiku and micro-fiction based on true crime stories: the small crimes, the arguments, the strange feuds, the perceived threats that never were: all the strange ways that people can go off the rails and suddenly see the world the way it isn't. In 17 syllables. My book "Police Blotter Haiku" is available from Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/Police-Blotter-Haiku-Jim-Jones/dp/150047116X and you are also welcome at www.policeblotterhaiku.com for my latest work plus policeblotterhaiku.tumblr.com for illustrated haikus. And if that's not enough, read my "normal" blog at www.secretsantacruz.com
Jekyll and Hyde
They weren’t aware of
what alcohol made him do
till he’d had three drinks.
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Antisocial
The constant gunfire.
It bothers her, even though
it’s just the neighbors.
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Insaniity is…
Jumping on his van,
cursing, did not help him reach
the keys locked inside.
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Oh, Come On
Was it news to him
that the cheap iPad he’d bought
from “some guy” was hot?
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That Night, in the Bar
He thought it was love.
She didn’t, and passed her card
to another man
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Issues
A pistol in hand,
he sighted on his mother
and then walked away.
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The One-Night Stand, in Perspective
He saw you naked.
But you shouldn’t have let him
see your credit cards.
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Miss Perception?
Her neighbor, laughing.
She noticed that, and also
her car’s four slashed tires.
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Insult to Injury
The wallet — empty!
In scorn they threw it back
at the man they’d robbed.
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