unlucky in love,
the Black Widow’s beau resigns
to nature’s design

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• August 11, 2009, PJ writes: Are you trying to say something about male/female relationships in general? (I'm not trying to be argumentative, just wondering)
• August 11, 2009, howard writes: yes indeed, though i'm not necessarily implicating every woman as a "Black Widow" ;)
  
  i actually submitted an earlier form of this haiku to haikubreakup.com. if it gets posted there, i'll link to it so others can see the earlier version too (which is written in more of a first person voice).
• August 13, 2009, apreziosi writes: Maybe I misinterpret ... but I think along those same lines.
  
  I've resigned myself to a life of solitude, regardless of nature's inklings. I feel that the link would kill me faster than I would kill myself.
• August 13, 2009, howard writes: no, I think you caught the general flavor of it, Anthony ;)

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• September 16, 2008, qazse writes: powerful
• September 19, 2008, howard writes: I agree. Interestingly, I found these banners hanging in the county courthouse park that sits right across the street from the local Obama HQ. That juxtaposition, like the banners themselves, is a bit of a Rorschach test.

photo: the flat character

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• April 27, 2008, ? writes: Nice! Good reference point for the way we often don't even take anyone or anything else into account when we act. Not conscious cruelty, just the absence of mercy.
• April 27, 2008, howard writes: Agreed. And maybe the absence of mercy is from a lack of awareness, of both ourselves and others.
• April 28, 2008, Heather writes: I have a new saying - Knowing is 1/3 of the battle. Planning is 1/3 of the battle. Doing (or doing something different) is the other third. Awareness is important...so you can move forward! Poor bug! H