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For eleven years, Muni Diaries, the much loved podcast and blog has shared tales about San Francisco life told through stories about riding Muni. They have hosted many live shows bringing storytellers, comedians, muni operators to the stage to share their experiences. A long running feature of these shows is the Muni Haiku Battle, a face off between two poets judged by members of the audience.
For the Muni Diaries Live on April 6th 2019, at the Rickshaw Stop, the then-reigning haiku champion, stand up comic and writer Alexandria Love faced off against the Bay City Beacon’s own Muni Poet Mc Allen in a three round bout for an inflatable crown. It was an incredibly close contest, and in the end Mc managed to clinch victory by a single vote.
Read more about the Muni Diaries Live show here.
These are the nine Muni Haikus Mc performed with at the show.
Mc Allen performing at the Muni Diaries Live Haiku Battle. Credit: Right Angle Images
Muni Haikus
This nineteen bus
Went out of service again
Stop barfing in there
Market Street Railway
Dreamy cream green streamliner
Embarcadero
Ocean Beach in June
Waiting for the twenty three
My ass is frozen
Mission red carpet
Fourteen is so much faster
Fuck your parking spot
Unhoused family
Sharing the back bench all night
Their baby is safe
Streetcars have a bell:
“Ding ding, ding ding!” And a horn:
“Move, Motherfucker!”
Escalator broke
in Civic Center and every
elevator reeks
J Lurch, K Lied
L Terri-ble and N Judas
M Motion-less, T turd.
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