“GROWING UP HAITIAN”
THE LIVE HAIKU SHOW
MAY 31, 2012
7pm
THOMPSON HOTEL, 15 GOLD ST. NY NY
HOUSE OF HAIKU
haiku by MrJeffDess
images by the people for the people.
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2012-05-21
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2012-02-12
there may not be a
true bodyguard but someone
will always love you
#dess575
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Cherish instead of
criticize. Celebrate not
slander. Remember.
#dess575
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some think they’re heroes.
to some they are just singers.
to most they are missed.
#dess575
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No one is perfect
pain doesn’t discriminate.
a force has spoken.
#dess575
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Don’t be scared to dance
with somebody who loves you.
Don’t you wanna dance?
#dess575
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The demons can no
longer dig their claws into
her spirit and soul.
#dess575
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2012-01-16
9 Haiku from the I Have a Dream Speech
But one hundred years
later, the Negro still is
not free. One hundred
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So we have come here
today to dramatize a
shameful condition.
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America has
given the Negro people
a bad check, a check
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refuse to believe
that there are insufficient
funds in the great vaults
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quick sands of racial
injustice to the solid
rock of brotherhood
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It would be fatal
for the nation to over-
look the urgency
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In the process of
gaining our rightful place we
must not be guilty
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if America
is to be a great nation
this must become true.
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these truths to be self-
evident: that all men are
created equal
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2011-12-31
the sound of death will
never get easy. dreams of
a better today.
#dess575
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before being taught
how to play with toys we were
playing with power.
#dess575
