unlike haiku, concerned with topics
of a more mundane nature, satirizing
human emotions and failings.
somewhere or other
his wife finds flaws.
In the whole village
the husband alone
does not know of it.
"She may have only one eye
but it's a pretty one"
says the go-between.
When her daughter
tightens her belly-band
mother's tension slackens.
If it's well styled
there are stories about her
the widow's hair.
Disturbed the cat
lifts its belly
on to its back
as best he can
the duck flies
Judging from the pictures
Hell looks the more
interesting place
The picture that
the guide can't read
he doesn't show them that.
The younger sister
first ferrets out
the groom's bad habits.
A letter from a man
she doesn't much care for
showing it to mother.
His own face
he shines daily
the mirror-polisher.
Letting rip a fart
it doesn't make you laugh
when you live alone.
~NEXT~
