song for Bashō

his death

song for Bashō

...At this, they both begin to weep,
and say, " Wouldn't it perhaps be
better to postpone dying, say for
three years, or maybe longer? "
Then they go back home,
singing...

fom Fumi Yamaguchi 'The Letter-Bandits'
R.H.Blyth JAPANESE HUMOUR

checking in

46 Kg
bloodoxy 73
! emergency


take a breath in     and hold it
            haiku ICU
you can     breathe normally now



ICU

they can
choose a jab   stomach or thigh
jumpy vein   forearm chasm
do yr obs     breakfast descends
scrambleggslab       haik


               you can
watch SkyNews     on yr flatpackback
take a shower       at days sweatend
admire the tatts       better in Pvt


slender   ebony
nightnurse eight months enceinte waves
fullbottle   mypee




palliative care

palliative care
shall neither hasten nor retard
yr end     laydown misere


showerchair   wheelchair   walkingframe
nappies low commode
hospitable bed
whoopee!cushion   pump


R2D2 hums nonstop
keeping moi alive
concentrator   two point five


plastic         lifeline         green
ten meter tether   longest he's seen
itinerant carer
Steve

what did they tell you
yuh dont have a clue     yuh COPD
cant touch his toes
like  me



lovers forty years
GUITARRA musicale
writing wedding vows





a night and a day

hotPod glowing red
cPap stats in green
landline blinking blue
    RGBs   all LEDs


dreaming   tethertime
your adviser   death
clumping   thumping   heart


possumclatter   dawn
function() {this.Day()} return true;
magpie   first warble


too early   09:30
meditation group   so long
19:30    Buddha gong





casting off

rash begins their day
ankles elbows clavicles
cortisone  no gloves



swipe diagonal
blood wrist skin   triangular
spur of the moment



function   oxygen
blue line soars across her screen
function   bloodredline flatline


last horizon   V A D
interviews  yuh   none
got to be driftin' along





dead end     ways to go
bubbling lungs  |  unplugged pump
zonked
no way you'll know



senses checking out
hearings last to go
headphones
Cakewalk IV





Bashō sits composed
all my poems   death poems
sick   MyHaikuBrain






crematorium
cardboard coffin his old shoes
  bare feet  

  The Inkspots  
andante ~ 2:19
                          one road more  

  Butch and Jimmy  
allegro ~ 1:46