Saturday, May 06, 2006

Haiku # 4,001,057





Nature gives freely
bottled water, tanning beds
Burn precious paper


8 comments:

Spo said...

Excellent Miyagi quality Eric.

love the sun picture as well

unless it's an electric tornado.

Tink said...

"Electric Tornado" *Snort* I was thinking hypnotizing ray.

Love the haiku. I have NO talent in that department. But changing lyrics of a song into something dirty? I'm there! :)

dan said...

first pathetic attempt at haiku since...er...sometime in school.

wooden overcoat
for the bloodless stone, wrapped in
nasty red letters

eric said...

you like that, simon? i drew it after a few beers. it's one of those suns us dead-head burnout friends drew in high school.

i had been meaning to rant about how it makes no sense to me that people buy bottled water (not out of necessity) and pay for tanning beds.

haikus are shorter than long, whiny treatises. it didn't take long ... it helps when bottled water and tanning beds equal seven syllables.

that sounds good, dan. but what does it mean?

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Jay said...

Paper isn't precious to everyone.

eric said...

tell me about it. i'll never understand some of the things people waste their money on.

i wish it weren't precious to me. but without it, i'd have to go kill my food to feed my kids.

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dan said...

trying to remember what it means...

wooden overcoat = coffin
bloodless stone = all the people in debt to credit card and loan companies and banks.

nasty red letters = the banks themselves as well as the red statements they send.

the letters wrapped around the stones represents the peril of the people who are suffocated by debt and thus the mention of the wooden overcoat.

fuck me is that pretentious or what. i should enter that in a competition. i'd win easily.

add a pair of scissors and take away the coffin and you've got a game.

eric said...

yeah, dan, i've got to say that is pretty thick. of course, mine's quite self-serving and esoteric.

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