Haiku on crappy books and My Daughter Likes Dio

I am working on one really inappropriate poem, but wanted to continue to post things more regularly, so more Haiku and a poem that plays to why this blog is named what it is.  The first haiku is in reference to a terrible book that I had to finish for some reason.

Haiku:

I finished that book

8 months later than planned,

no satisfaction and the wine is gone

and in that moment I said

Cheese knives are in the back of the drawer…

I was an adult.

She fell off of the playground

Four feet off the ground and pooped

I had to stifle laughter.

My Daughter Likes Dio

 

Last night,

At rush hour

As the sun set

Slowly over the

Pacific Northwest,

I drove my toddler home

While belting out my best

Completely off key renditions of

Metal ballads and punk rock songs

Dio and Bad Religion.

Under no illusion that I have

The slightest iota of talent,

But for that singular

Moment, I have my

First and possibly

Only adoring

Audience

Who cries when I stop.