Sent a few haiku to New Wave Vomit. Let's see if they get up.

I decided to send a few haiku to New Wave Vomit. I'm going to try and send shit out a couple times a week to a bunch of different places. Taking 'getting out there' seriously now. Here they are.

Kawaiiku by Reprobus

dripping wet, mewing

kitty wrapped in big towel

shivers and sneezes

Kowaiiku by Reprobus

out of my nostril

a centipede crawls, crunching

a piece of my brain

Rhymeku Kowaiiku by Reprobus

my chest’s blister pops

clear, runny liquid pours out

to the floor, it drops

The poems came from an idea I put up on LPP a while back. I wanted to make little genres of haiku, playing with the actual word itself. Kowaii in japanese means scary and Kawaii means cute, so I figured find imagery that is horrifying or cute and write about it. Rhymeku, well I just wanted to see if I could make rhymes in haiku form. What I got up there is pretty sloppy, but I would still like to challenge myself and try making some more.

Also awhile back, I asked Mr. Shaun Gannon if he'd collaborate with me making some of these types of haiku. I wanted to get a collection started of kawaiiku and kowaiiku and call it, Awws and Ahhs but both of us got busy. Haven't really gone back into putting any work towards it, though I do have a collection saved up on my phone. I think it'd be cool to look into, but I'm gonna wait now until I've got enough recognition to draw other people into the project. So anyone that stumbles upon this and is interested...

PS- My girlfriend just audibly AWW'd at the kitty one when I should it to her. Pretty much the reaction I wanted. SCORE!

That's it for now. Peace. 

Posted a personal poem on LPP, emailed it to Metazen to see if they'd publis it... We will see.

I decided to post the most personal thing I've yet to write. 

My idea at first was to use haiku imagery to detail the abuse from my mom's boyfriend for most of my childhood. I sorta drifted away from that a bit at times, but there are at least 5 solid sections that follow this.

I also submitted it for publication to Metazen. This is my first time doing something like this. I really don't know how that's gonna go. I guess I will find out, hopefully by tomorrow afternoon.

Anyways, here's the poem:

Golem by Reprobus

  

My mom cries sharply

from the room across the hall

as a slap rings out

I am eleven

He shows me a Hustler

asks if I want it

My sister jerks back

Fingers weave into her hair

and tug forcefully

I am twelve years old

He shows me a bag of coke

asks if I want some

A welted hand print

stains mom's left cheek, dark and red

moist from quiet sobs

I am thirteen now

I scream STOP as he hits her

calls me a faggot

PTOOEY! spit flies

snot drips down my sister’s face

She sinks to the floor

I just turned fourteen

when he calls me a pussy

in front of his friends

His hand knocks her face

My mom's top teeth become gapped

Her lips swell and bleed

Halfway through fifteen

He beats me more frequently

because I'm a bitch

From over the phone

"I'll fuck your daughter's asshole"

He says to my mom

years slowly

reel out like this

My family broken

by the man who took my dad's place

Still

when I was 15 in the hospital

it was his name I cried for

and not my dad's

and it was then that I realized

I am just like my mother

and to this day

I don't even know

who I hate more

the man who left me to die

or the man that did the killing.