Love Medicine

Love Medicine
Detail of beadwork from an Ojibwe medicine pouch

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

haikus

gregor is awake
he is now a gross beetle
what will he do now

he opens the door
all the people are surprised
chief-clerk runs away

grete leaves gregor milk
gregor does not like milk now
bugs only eat junk

gregor listens to them
the family has some cash
to live for a year

now grete and the mom
move furniture for gregor
gregor has more room

gregors dad is home
throws apples at gregors back
hurting gregors back

family has jobs
no one notices gregor
they abandoned him

three lodgers now live
inside of gregors household
very demanding

they look at gregor
will not live there anymore
will not pay the rent

grete rejects gregor
he goes back into his room
dies at 3 a.m.

3 comments:

MPH said...

Good job n00b. They all sum up the story well.

Jessica Deckard said...

Yes, really nice work.

NDiMaggio45 said...

These are really good. I like how you summarized the story in the haikus.