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From @ayisi_yaw on X, the weekly #Fantaiku #prompt for 20 September 2026 is

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you are more than
the meat suit you wear
you are the dazzle
of every star

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"Pick Up Your Face & Go Home Now"

(expansion of “pick up & go now”, from Reuben Woolley’s "some time we are heroes" [2018])

nascent / first-hand / boost / Sep 19

nascent half-baked thoughts
'that' egomaniac boosts
we all know first-hand

baithuk

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Traveling from right to left
Clouds written in Arabic

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nacre / wounds / envy /Sep 18

nacre is more than
wounds of oysters and mussels
envy of women

Tree, Too

I think that I shall never see
A pisspot as flooded as that tree.
And as I think about it now,
I must run up to it and piss like a cow.

Always honored to see my haiku selected to appear in Asahi Haikuist Network. Thank you to editor David McMurray!