Purloin the Passport
Deal with the trauma
Of displacement through writing:
Purloin the passport
Even in letters
Conquering displacement still
Remains the most raw
The uncanny ease
The literature proclaimed
Made him significant
Unflinching story
Speaks of the solitary
Talking to ourselves
Ambitious ideas
Whose voices braid together
Built around the last
Chiseled to create
A kaleidoscopic whole
Distilled to pages
“HAIKUISATION
The haiku is a Japanese poetic form whose most obvious feature is the division of its 17 syllables into lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables. Haikuisation has sometimes been used by Oulipians to indicate the reduction of verses of normal length to lines of haiku-like brevity. Select three sentences from a single newspaper article and “haiku” them.” –from The OULIPOST Handbook
{i miss paper letters} 