Three Haiku by Tohm Bakelas

blow smoke at the moon,  
hammer the sun in the sky,  
to live is to die!
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i want to live where  
the weather is a steady  
sixty-four degrees!
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pat’s cat has one eye—  
a bastard born for no one—  
now both are complete!  
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© Tohm Bakelas
New Jersey, USA 
tohm.bakelas@gmail.com

Tohm Bakelas is a social worker in a psychiatric hospital. He was born in New Jersey and resides there. His poems have been printed widely in journals, zines, and online publications all over the world. He is the author of twenty-five chapbooks and several collections of poetry, including "Cleaning the Gutters of Hell" (Zeitgeist Press, 2023). He is the editor of Between Shadows Press.