Depending on the outcome of Thursday’s game, which took place after the Courier’s press deadline, K&K continues or concludes its Basho-inspired Haiku Night in Canada poetry series in honour of the arrival of spring and the Canucks’ Stanley Cup playoff run.
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Blue and green grease paint
Coats my beast of a belly
Really should have shaved.
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Who is this Ferland?
Lumbering limbs full of plums
Graze Bieksa’s cheek.
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Smell of whale blubber
The sour, burnt stench of defeat
How I hate the Flames.
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Bloated with nachos
Still drunk and missing my gaunch
It is a new day.
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