REDNECK HAIKU

BEAUTY

Naked in repose

Silvery silhouette girls

Adorn my mudflaps

REMORSE

A painful sadness

Can't fit big screen TV through

Double-wide's front door

OPTIONS

Unemployment's out.

Hey, maybe I can get on

Disability

BLAZE

Distant siren screams

Dumb-ass Verne's been playing with

Gasoline again

A NEW MOON

Flashlights pierce darkness

No nightcrawlers to be found

Guess we'll gig some frogs

EXUBERANCE

Joyous, playful, bright

Trailer park girl rolls in puddle

Of old motor oil

ALONE

Seeking solitude

Carl's ex-wife Tammy files for

Restraining order

DESIRE

Damn, in that tube-top

You make me almost forget

you are my cousin

OFFERINGS

Tonight we hunger

Grandma sent grocery money

To Jimmy Swaggert

DRAMA

Set the VCR

Dukes of Hazzard Marathon

At 9 O'Clock

DEPRIVED

In WalMart toy aisle

Wailing boy wants 'rassling doll

Mama whups his ass

NO SIGNAL

White noise, buzzing static

Call Earl; satellite dish

needs new descrambler

IMPOUNDED

Sixty-five dollars

And cyclone fence keeps me from

My El Camino

GATHERING

In early morning mist

Mama searches Circle K for

Moon Pies and Red Man

PRIDE

Grinning, he displays

The nine hundred beer cans

Filling pickup bed