Betty Kaplan. Retired from the Fashion Industry. Used to arrange clothes. Now arranging words. Started to write haiku in the early '90s. Haiku changed my life. Published in Frogpond, Lynx, Woodpecker, South by Southeast, World Haiku Review, Sketchbook, American Tanka , Simply Haiku and CHO.


 

A 7 Layer Cake

The other morning
Watching “The View”
Martha Stewart
Comes on as guest

Martha shows us
“ How to make a bed”

A bed!!
It turns into a 7 layer cake!

1 mattress cover
2 bed ruffle
3 feather bed
4 fitted sheet
5 flat sheet
6 duvet
7 duvet cover

“oh my gosh”!

I would rather
A chocolate
On my pillow
Rose petals
Sprinkled on
And a “boy toy”
Waiting ...
 

 

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