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The poems in Vexing Laughter are both interesting and bizarre as Winke continues pushing the edge of what haiku in English might be. If Kerouac's Book of Dreams had been written in haiku, it might read something like this.

Dark, grimy, sensual, hideous, horrendous, within, subtle, straight-up, derelict, once, doom, destiny, bound, Disney Land, rank, fraud, plagiarism, writer's bloque, sand, whippets & marmalade.