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    We all need to feed, and work, and begging is a long and honourable activity including Zen monks, some of them haikai poets. :-)
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    From window washers and vendors to asking alms, and often short of what they need:

    sunlit sweat
    the young vagrant
    sucks a thumb

    Alan Summers
    Haiku Harvest vol. 4 no. 1 (2003)
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  2. Well drawn, Dave. Great ku.

    I gave a loonie (you need to be Canadian, perhaps, to know what that is…) to a guy at a stop light yesterday. What a light-hearted man – he made me smile much more than the loonie’s worth.

  3. Nice way to highlight the positive out of the negative. Wonderful pivot in the second line as well.

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