Moonshine and Haiku's

Here's a little word play mixed with the poetic form of the Haiku. I took "nicknames" of moonshine (who shot sally, white lightnin', and brown mule... another is painter's piss, but I didn't include it) and added them to the haiku's. For some reason, mixing moonshine and this Asian form of poetry seemed a taboo, but also strangely relevant. In some aspects, Appalachia is quite like rural Japan and other East Asia countries... at least I think so. The title comes from the name of a moonshine maker by the name of "Popcorn." He's an old, codgery man with a big, unkempt white beard and overalls... pretty stereotypical of what you would think someone from the back hills of Appalachia would look like. But I found him endearing and these Haiku's are for him.

Popcorn’s Haikus

who shot sally and
seven brown mules daily named
father white lightnin’?

there was a brown mule
who shot sally with a gun
known as white lightnin’.

white lightnin’ struck down
a man high on his brown mule,
who shot sally once.