Redneck Haikus
Beauty
Naked in repose
Silvery silhouette girls
Adorn my mud flaps
Remorse
A painful sadness
Cain’t fit big screen TV through
Double-wide’s front door
Mother and Child
Crusted in boogers
Stained with Kool-Aid, baby has face
Only Mama loves
Exuberance
Joyous, playful, bright
Trailer park girl rolls in puddle
Of old motor oil
Alone
Seeking solitude
Carl’s ex-wife Tammy files fer
Restraining order
Desire
Damn, in that tube-top
You make me almost fergit
That you’re my cousin
Impounded
Sixty-five dollars
And cyclone fence keeps me from
My El Camino
Offerings
Tonight we hunger
Grandma sent grocery money
To Robert Tilton
Drama
Set the VCR
Dukes of Hazard Marathon
Starts at 9 O’Clock
Deprived
In WalMart toy aisle
Wailing boy wants rasslin’ doll
Mama whups his ass
No Signal
White noise, buzzing static
Call Earl; the satellite dish
Needs new descrambler
Pride
Grinning, he displays
The nine hundred beer cans that
Fill his pick-up bed