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Blogger EP Hemingweigh said…
E – everyone thinks i
a – always don’t know who i am
r – remember that day
l – leaning close awkward
P – pause turned up cushions to no
a – avail lost gone
r – returned call no luck
k – known disturbance it cant be
s – scream who am i __________
April 30, 2009 9:50 PM
Blogger EP Hemingweigh said…
oh really goat i think you can come up with the word that is screamed
who is Earl Parks… read the haikus to mr goat and see if he knows
April 30, 2009 10:19 PM
Blogger Pig Woman said…
I just found out,Craig, and you are dead meat, Mr. Do you hear me? DEAD MEAT!!!
Pig Women has you in her sights. Heh heh heh
May 1, 2009 12:23 PM
Blogger EP Hemingweigh said…
Congratulations Pig Woman!!! You discovered the correct word for the blank. Now tell me the truth, knowing the full story isn’t it hilarious? Also, you should go back and read the old entries on the EP site… they Bethany and I have been laughing at EPisms all month!
hemingweigh.blogspot.com/
May 1, 2009 3:05 PM
Blogger Pig Woman said…
Actually, Craig, I am trying but I’m not really laughing yet.
May 1, 2009 7:27 PM
Blogger Pig Woman said…
In fact the more I think about it, how old are you now Craig?
May 1, 2009 9:04 PM
Blogger EP Hemingweigh said…
Old enough to pull off a month long April fools joke. Heh heh heh
As I told Goat, I did learn a lot about Haikus in the process. 🙂
May 1, 2009 10:14 PM
Blogger Pig Woman said…
hmmmmmm. Still not laughing here. I don’t think I want to blog anymore.
May 2, 2009 4:57 AM
So now all the haiku are gone–all the terrific comments lost.
This is a great sadness. The responses were probably more important than the haiku. Proves we have heart for one another. Makes poetry what it should be.
Oh, Pig Woman! You’re like my FAVORITE commentator. Let’s not make the rest of us suffer for one incorrigible joker. Pretty please…
Did I ever tell you about the time after we were just married that he though it would be HILARIOUS for both of us if he woke me up from a dead sleep with a squirt bottle?! Yes, that’s right, a SQUIRT BOTTLE. Let’s just say we have RULES about squirt bottles now!
Besides, I thought your comments to EP were quite lovely.
Plus, EP actually learned A LOT about poetry. It was so cute to see him there using a thesaurus and counting syllables in his own comedy little way. Why I couldn’t have gotten him doing that under penalty of DEATH.
Anyway, LOVE you. Don’t go away…
i have to hand it to you Craig… you successfully fooled us all. I was even THIS close to closing down my blog thanks to the creepy guy following only our family blog sites. I’m glad to know it was just my weird brother-in-law, and not some weird stranger 🙂
Cerissa
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Thanks, Goat, for letting me play. Here a few final shots for April. They’re separate works; so clear your brain between — no hidden connection here. I may post more on my home page in the near future… we’ll see.
bellicosity
circulates viscous crimson
rage undetected
sapphire skies moon rise
cyclic apparition haunts
memory of you
(and my personal favorite I’ve been saving for 30 days:)
decapitated
giant sleeping in the woods
I see St. Helens
Thanks again! Blessings upon blessings, friend!
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NOW
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