Return of Spaiku.

[mere_ubu]

I've kind of fallen off the haiku horse in the whirl of the past couple of weeks, but I'm ready to wrangle it again. I'll return to the "Fool for Love" series sometime in the next few days, but I never seemed to have the right notebook with me at SC3 to continue work on them. I kept coming across an old grocery list notebook with some lines scrawled in it that have been stubbornly refusing to coalesce into haiku for many weeks. Every time I pawed through my Curious George backpack, they mocked me, so I tinkered vengefully with them between sessions. From "Triangle," BtVS, S5. Spike whales on a mannequin. PG.
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I.
Penitent vampire
offers chocolates and chagrin
to blonde effigy.


II.
Amends gone awry:
completely loses his shit
with slapstick fury.


III.
Pale, trembling fingers
fuss with assaulted bonbons.
Third time's the charm, mate.

Comments

[gillo]

Poor Spike. You got the mixture of pathos and comedy beautifully - I love the switching from "high poetic" to highly colloquial diction. It suits him perfectly.

[mere-ubu.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you! This particular batch has been giving me fits for weeks, and I'm delighted that you enjoyed them. I love that scene, and the way he lurches from apology to rage to remorse just kills me every time. Poor guy's gotta go through a mannequin and a robot before he's even remotely ready to deal with a live girl!

*giggles at your icon*