Music, Love, and Laughter

Here is a haiku

Which clearly und’rmines the point 

Because of this, we had no delinquents. Without a prison, there can be no delinquents. We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves. When someone was so poor that he couldn’t afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift. We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property. We didn’t know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being was not determined by his wealth. We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians, therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another. We were really in bad shape before the white men arrived and I don’t know how to explain how we were able to manage without these fundamental things that (so they tell us) are so necessary for a civilized society.”

a bottle of sleeping pills

taken in hopes

of reaching that final sleep

she changed her muddled mind

with a lurch she felt what it meant to be almost dead

dry mouth panic stumbling fear

shaking sickness voices

hallucinations of people who weren’t there

an ambulance ride to a hospital