Jim Kacian

Rage

It isn’t that we cease to perform our stupid human tricks as we age—far from it—but that following them we heal so slowly—so slowly in fact that we have time to include proper endings to our adverbs. What doesn’t kill us makes us better grammarians, thus further estranging us from our children.

going gentle
into that good night
melatonin

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About the Author

Jim Kacian is founder and president of The Haiku Foundation as well as chairman of its board; founder and owner of Red Moon Press; and editor in chief of Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W. W. Norton, 2013).

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