I once worked as a security guard. When it was time to make my rounds, I would spend the time composing little pieces using the tanka form (concerning syllable count, not theme). The result was this sequence.
Michael Neal Morris if the author of Based on Imaginary Events, Is It I, Rabbi, In Domestic News and Music for Arguments. He has published online and in print in a number of venues. He lives with his family outside the Dallas area, and teaches at the Eastfield campus of Dallas College. He posts at This Blue Monk and Two Cents On.