My wife bought me an orange armchair not quite an “Archie Bunker” Lighter, more modern. I can move it easily. Remarkably comfortable The Feng shui center of my abode. I have to wait my turn to sit in it.
A Second Set of Almost Haiku by an Almost Old Man [cycle number 2]
Song Cycle by Richard Farber (b. 1945)
1. Not quite an Archie Bunker
Language: English
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2. My real problem with Haiku
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My real problem with Haiku is counting the syllables Structuring a poem seems the antithesis of the poetic process front to back to front inverted upside down . . . That is why my Haiku are like myself A free formed almost.
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3. Not the barbaric other
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I don’t like the portrayal of the Japanese as the barbaric other. The American Cowboy ethos is not the code of bushido
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4. Ceterum censeo
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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam I advise that Carthage must be destroyed The civilized Phonecians and Carthaginians were my cousins We the semites are portrayed as the evil other. I think the Greeks were the good guys, the Maccabeans the terrorists. I get history all wrong.
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5. A Zen view of the world
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I should be singing short images of nature A Zen view of the world. I should be singing the citrus trees on my window sill A Zen view of the world. I should be singing the book of I Ching and the work of John Cage A Zen view of the world. I should be smoking my pipe in contemplation Of a Zen view of the world.
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