by Richard Brautigan

Haiku Ambulance

A piece of green pepper

    fell

off the wooden salad bowl:

    so what?

Homage to the Japanese Haiku Poet Issa

Drunk in a Japanese

       bar

       I’m

       OK

Strawberry Haiku

l  l  l  l  l

l  l  l  l  l  l  l

The twelve red berries

“Haiku Ambulance” from The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1968. “Homage to the Japanese Haiku Poet Issa” and “Strawberry Haiku” from June 30th, June 30th, New York: Delta/Dell, 1978, pages 25 and 27.