Few Haikus On Tic: Part 4, Inertia and Everything After


Here’s a collection of haikus I’ve put up on my Instagram and on Twitter in the last few months, but never sat down to compile into a post like this. If there’s an theme that unifies this set, it would be that of inertia, stagnation, boredom, being trapped in your own misery, only able to dig that hole deeper.


A Patch Of Nettles On The Other Side

This is about false expectations, wishing a simple change of circumstances would fix things when in fact it really doesn’t. Like thinking things will get better over the summer when in fact there’s just a new set of challenges to deal with. There’s a reworking of the grass is greener on the other side is cliché which I thought was clever at the time but may not be in hindsight.

Freedom’s illusion,
An unspecified elsewhere,
Misleading greenness.


Days Wasted Not Even Getting Wasted

The summer can be a great action filled time for many, but it can also drag like a motherfucker. Your days last too long, an exercise in smoking rollies outside and waiting for your shitty internet to upload that social media post, but then weeks pile up and you’ve wasted the one time you have all year without something bearing down on you being bored and miserable.

Sunny in limbo,
Hours drag while days fly by,
Sunburnt inertia.


Unspecified Regrets

This didn’t have a title when I wrote it first, I’m not even that satisfied with this title, it’s just about how I keep relapsing into poor mental health, making mistakes that may not be the exact same but certainly have enough in common so that I should have seen them coming

My downward spiral,
Traumatic repetition,
Lessons never learned.


Stagnant, Yet Functional

This is about dragging yourself through shit days that turn into shit weeks, but not really doing much to alleviate that shitness. It’s about being on autopilot while you drift through education, employment, social and family life, everything slowly falling apart around you.

Routine as a crutch,
Quagmire of obligations,
I’m slowly sinking.


So yeah there we go folks, the latest collection of poems from your pal Mal. Hopefully I’ll be able to start releasing content at a better rate from now on.


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