Wade on Birmingham

oscar haiku 2018

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splish splash

Tale as old as time:
Girl meets fish. Girl boinks fish. Girl
goes off the deep end.

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evasion of the body snatchers

White people are so-o-o-o-o
possessive. Black lives matter
in the sunken place.

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ebbing and flouting

She spelled it out on
the rural route. Justice now!
Somehow. Burma-Shave.

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sand trap

We shall film on the
beaches. We shall film in the
hills. No surrender.

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that’s no lady — that’s my life

Not about the first
lady nor Hank Hill’s bloodhound
on “King of the Hill.”

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