High Coup Journal - March 2011 Issue

(Photo by Ann Wright, Plymouth, IN)

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IN THIS ISSUE:

Dominique Allen (Terre Haute, IN)

William Cullen (Brooklyn, NY)

Christopher Dolle (Terre Haute, IN)

Bat-Ami Gordon (Antelope Valley, CA)

Amy Harris (West Lafayette, IN)

David Hollander (Bloomington, IN)

Chris Loft (Adelaide, Australia)

Jamie Lushbaugh (Terre Haute, IN)

Darcy McMurtery (Seattle, WA)

E. Joyce Moore (Indianapolis, IN)

Aaron Owens (Terre Haute, IN)

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Editor's Note:

Well folks, this issue
will be just a little weird...
please read why below:

I didn't set out to make High Coup Journal a political journal, but in the recent Twitter-storm of #libya and #egypt tags, I couldn't help but notice that some of them were in haiku form.  One might suggest that haiku isn't the most efficient way to share information about important breaking events, but one also might suggest that it is the best way to pack the most emotion into the fewest characters.  So we've tried to share some of those haiku in this issue along with preserving the merry whimsical madness we pride ourselves on here at the journal.

To those of you in North Africa: let us know if there's anything we can do to help.

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William Cullen

her yellow panties

on the tequila bottle

today's mardi gras

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David Hollander

let us hope for peace
as our Arab cousins pay
freedom's bloody price


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Jamie Lushbaugh


I blush at his touch,
which is awkward when married.
I still feel sixteen.


Daddy ignored you?
Live up to his standards, be
An asshole magnet.


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E. Joyce Moore

Possibilities
Dashed upon the shore of life
Riptide's waves its fate.


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Darcy McMurtery

The mirror speaks truth
and I reach for my eye cream.
Outside the crow laughs.


Lady Friends

When Grandpa started
banging floozies we didn’t
know what to call them.


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Amy Harris

Xenophobia
good fences make good neighbors
on the Rio Grande


Insomnia calls
every night, 2 a. m.
when the moon is bright


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Aaron Owens

Tso Very Tasty

Oh, General Tso!
Your noodles cut through my gut
Like a katana


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Dominique Allen

My future is writ
Upon quick-drying cement
Where's my jack hammer?


White frozen crystals
cake my car in icy sheets
Fuck you, troposphere.


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Chris Loft

Just one step away -
his supporters fade like dust -
wind blows in the sand


Rulers come and go - 
but in the markets and squares - 
people shall be free 


That man must go now - 
if he says he has no shoes - 
then he can have mine 


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Bat-Ami Gordon

this revolution
inspirational model
scares authorities


contagious revolution
contaminated regime
immunization


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March 2011 AWESOME SAUCE: Christopher Dolle

Snowflakes fuck and grow

Outside apartment windows,

While we lay in bed.

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Lion or a lamb?

Hell if we know.  Send in your

poems regardless.

highcoupjournal {at} gmail.com

High Coup Journal - November 2010 Issue

(Photo by Ann Wright, Plymouth, IN)

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IN THIS ISSUE:

Cal Clugston (Sydney, Australia)

Neil Ellman (Livingston, NJ)

Amanda Hillenburg (Sherbrooke, QC, Canada)

Dale Holdampf (Ann Arbor, MI)

David Hollander (Bloomington, IN)

Yume Kim (Woodbridge, VA)

Taylor Lampton (New Brunswick, NJ)

Jen Sicking (Terre Haute, IN)

Jacob Thomas (Terre Haute, IN)

David Tomaloff (Racine, WI)

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Editor's Note:

November babies:

take your pick of scorpions

or centaurs with bows.

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Jen Sicking

Green gecko wind surfs
Joyful lifted head on hood
‘til whoosh, death spirals by.


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Neil Ellman

Party Time

A party's on in Hell
Sex and booze and rock'n'roll--
Death knows how to live.

Fried Food

Whichever came first
The chicken or the omelette
It tastes better fried.


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David Tomaloff


Frog out in the pond
His boom-box ungodly loud
Really, Frog? Lil' Jon?




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Cal Clugston

Indian summer

Retreats up a trail of tears

When the east wind blows

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Jacob Thomas

Trundle-beds are strange
They nestle like Russian dolls
Sleeps like a coffin

Red and Stalwart Foe
I see thee taunting my bread
Toaster, be my bitch

Violets are not blue
They are purple you dumbass
Go learn your colors


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Yume Kim

Ezra Pound really
liked Asian culture. Figures.
That guy is an ass.


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Taylor Lampton

Dude, you have a cold.
Don't come to class. Sniffling
and snorting is gross.


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Amanda Hillenburg

Serve up some crackers
With a side of grey matter
Zombies love snack time


Don't hog the mayo
The obese won't eat veggies
Without extra fat


Necktie or a noose?
Same thing but softer fabric
Just add a black hood


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Dale Holdampf

Towel-toting man
Hitchhikes across the planets.
Oh, that Zarking Frood!


Excited dolphin
Flipping the fuck out of waves
Totally bitchin'


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David Hollander

trying to study
but asphyxiating gas
pours from my rectum

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November 2010 AWESOME SAUCE: Cal Clugston

Eat her like lettuce

Peeling away each layer

Of her sweet wetness

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One more month this year--

why not send one more haiku

to High Coup Journal?

highcoupjournal {at} gmail.com