[ Wrote some haiku while working the Red Cross booth at a health/safety fair because I am a bad-ass multi-tasker. Can you tell I was super excited to be there? (While I do love discussing natural disasters, after the first two or three hundred people my enthusiasm waned a bit…) ]

“Not a Job for an Introvert”

working event booth
false grin frozen on my face
time to go home yet?

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“Fine, Take the Candy and Leave”

“How are you? …hello?”
no sign of recognition
they just want freebies

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“This is Barely a Pre-Snack”

hundred calories
fifteen tiny cheese crackers
you call this a snack?

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“Food, Water, Shelter… and Bullets”

you know what they say:
if you’re prepared for zombies
you can face it all

[ If the CDC has a section on its website for zombie preparedness, shouldn’t we take that as a sign? ]