Doug Palmer sold three of his lifelong companions, specially built, cherished, customized, and sitting idle for several years in his driveway. He has begun to wipe the slate clean, to gather new outlooks, to create a new agenda. He wrote a little somethin--somethin about all this:
Six Mechanical Haiku.
1, For Karl;
Adventure
Bertha Benz drove a car
Down to the chemist's shop
In eighteen eighty five
2, For Rudy;
Commerce
If you squeeze air
it becomes hot enough to burn
Add fuel
Bang!
3, For Henry;
JoyBouncing,
Rattling Model T Ford
Banging, popping
The ragtime car
4, For Enzo;
Freedom
Isn't it lovely
Bright red paint
Twelve cylinders
We go very fast
5, For all the drivers in the world;
Traffic jam
Look at that road
All those cars
Damn, I'm late
Honking only makes it worse
6, For a few brief seconds;
Escape
Quarter mile
...Four seconds
...Not enough time
Haiku, lowku, you decide.
Real Haiku, yer s'posed to reference the appropriate season.
Also, syllable count is different in Japanese.
Not that I've even got that right.
Doug Palmer April 2008
4 comments:
Actually, I wrote Six Haiku several years ago.
I was still driving the ALFA to school then.
This piece was the score involved in the famous Seattle Symphony/Me copyright contretemps.
LOL
Oh yeah,
I'm reading a book of Baseball haiku.
Edited by...let me get my reading glasses here...
Cor van den Heuvel and Nanae Tamura
The full text of the Palmer versus SSO debacle, or the copyright contretemps is on FEEL FREE TO LAUGH for Monday, April 7, 2008.
It is a hoot and certainly worth the read.
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