Gratitude Monday: Haiku strong

Well—it’s Gratitude Monday. And Patriots’ Day. And National Haiku Day. So I’m grateful for a couple of things.

The Boston Marathon will be run (and, in some cases, staggered) today, as it has every Patriots’ Day for 120 years. There will be more security than there used to be, thanks both to the Tsarnaev brothers’ terrorist attack four years ago, and the general unease surrounding any kind of event under the current administration. (You just never know when thugs will show up to wave Confederate or Nazi flags in the faces of people celebrating everything from a kid’s birthday party to a major sporting event.) But half a million people will show up to cheer 30,000 runners all 26 miles through the greater metropolitan area.

And before we get an unpresidented tweet taking credit for it—they were #BostonStrong long before the Kleptocrat ran for office.

I’m also grateful for the haiku that a friend of mine has been posting to Facebook every day for National Poetry Month, even while en route to and on his spring break. This is true dedication.

Of course, he is Irish…

But out of gratitude, and in his honor, here’s my poor contribution.

Mahoney’s haiku

Remind me of pub lunch breaks—

Ah, those happy times

What do you have in your poetry and gratitude pocket?