Haiku: Breaking Bad, Season 4, Episode 13 – Face Off
October 11, 2011
Gus, Tyrus, Tio
A final ringing blowout
Heisenberg knocks, wins.

Gus, Tyrus, Tio
A final ringing blowout
Heisenberg knocks, wins.

Go, don’t stop, says Walt.
But Fring will do no such thing.
He waits, he sees — gone.

It’s not comedy.
Ted’s trip, Fring’s threats, Skyler’s cries.
But Walt’s laugh? Perfect.

Junior’s not Jesse
Walter is not his father
Gus is no one’s bitch.

“The Quicken” Skyler
The pot boils, and Gus says yes
Pinkman-White cage match.

Before he was the
Chicken Man, Gus was Jesse,
out, out of his league.

Jesse gets his gun.
Hank puts it all together.
Yes/no, in or out?

“It’s all about me,”
says Walter the Protector.
It is, it isn’t.