Selected haiku

Let’s compare paper bags to Plato’s Cave:

Both are cavities, voids within matter,

Dark without introducing light waves,

Silent without contents to move and clatter.

The allegorical Cave’s not alone:

Sun, natural things, their reflections, fire,

Artificial objects, their shadows shown

On the cave walls are needed to inspire.

The paper bag’s utility extends

Past its intended use (to hold objects)

As a stand-in for the Cave it ascends,

Or as material for craft projects.

Plato’s Cave is imagined, thus it lacks

Capacity for food or sleepy cats

cat finds no ghosts in 
humidifier’s mist but
remains vigilant

with hard Mountain Dew,
resistance to drunkenness
is less than futile