My name is Pete and I work as a temp for an insurance brokerage company. It is my duty to address, stamp, and seal by hand thousands of letters each week to send out. One might find it difficult to express one's self in this line of work yet I have found a way. Herein lay the fruit of my labor - daily Haikus about writing addresses and stamping. For everyday of work I shall complete another surge of expression in the mighty form of a petite 3 line stanza that is the 'Haiku'.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Haiku #24 (Final Day)

Sad to leave you all
But now I can board my boat
Thanks to Accuquote

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Haiku #23

What's this, a letter?
My eyes swell from its beauty
What artist made thee?!!

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Haiku #22

Each one has beauty
We're pushing the envelope
With penned perfection

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Haiku #21 (On Morbid Advertising)

You're going to die
So you better watch your back
You like a free quote?

Friday, March 5, 2010

Haiku #20 (T-7 days until departure)

Only one week left
Where did all the letters go?
Left home like me...

Haiku #19 (Changing Offices)

They taking our home
Refugee writer without
A place called his own

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Haiku #18 (This one's too hot. This one's too cold...)

Typing has no heart
Carving stone's too old too cold
Writing feels just right

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Haiku #17 (Quality Control)

Writing was our crime
Penned so fast wrote too reckless
Boss pulled us over

Friday, February 26, 2010

Haiku #16

Think we've gone postal
Crazy work in the lab cause
We stamp'n like mad

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Haiku #15

Here's another batch
To send to the masses
Bask in it's glory

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Haiku #14

The 'Snail-Mail Cowboys'
Storm the plains like Pony Express
Herd the uninsured

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Haiku #13 on Addressing Envelopes for a Living

It was all a dream
Writing letters was my scheme
Blew this Windy scene

Haiku #1 on Addressing Envelopes for a Living

A thousand letters
Now my finger is purple
Please buy our product

Friday, February 19, 2010

Haiku #11 on Stamping Envelopes for a Living

How nice it would be
To write an address on me
To: Bangkok City

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Haiku #10 on Addressing Envelopes for a Living

Pens and hands will bleed
We the warrior poets
Bare these scars for you

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Haiku # 9 on Stamping Envelopes for a Living

Return to sender
Gone to where you can't find me
Not where we belong

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Haiku #4 on Stamping Envelopes for a Living

What scribbles mark thee
Cast from home to worlds unknown
Message in the sea

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Haiku #7 on Stamping Envelopes for a Living

Token to travel
A one way to anywhere
Straight to your trashcan