What’s So Romantic?

Written by, Jon B.

Seven haiku questions based on my recent USING dream

What’s so romantic
about confusion and haze?
Stupid’s DOPAMINE?

Allergic Stuffing
packed in with slo-mo chutzpah intensity glow?

Secret ego world
singular life sucking ruse
boosting while wasting?

Paved over dreamscapes
for dispensary charades
Lying to my soul?

Abandoned feelings
packed in a bowl smoked away
each day forgotten?

Minimal progress
for momentary “insight”
delusion triumph?

Doubled down on hits,
tokes of hopelessness grandeur devolving in cess?

Published in A New Leaf – November 2026

Tall dark trees fade into blue morning fog along a forest path.