Haiku D'etente

---Part 1
The hockey lockout
May end? Compromise only
Comes gun to the head?

--Part 2
P.S. Apathy
Dominates the response to
hockey's suicide.

Three haiku

Hayden Christensen
and Lucas dialogue destroyed
the Star Wars prequels

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Howard Dean leads Dems!
Desperation sounds like a
Vermont doctor's scream.

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Steroids inflated
Bodies, home run totals...now
Canseco's wallet.

A new poem

The Hardness of Apprehension

Tears of laughter...or was it outright skepticism?
A dimension previously unknown - now flouted.
To be apprehended (known) is no easy thing
And so we want it all the more.

Serious/straightlaced/conservative
Brash/good-time charlie/liberal
Southern/sport-ish/high fat & calories
Urban/intellectual/sushi & vegetables

Dimensions still becoming known (to me)
Everyone is multi - but are we open to being

Known.

SXSW 2004

Here's who I saw (only a couple songs in some cases) at SXSW 2004:
Jeb Hughes
Nellie McKay
Los Lonely Boys
Sandra McCracken
Richard Bucker (suck!)
Jon Dee Graham
Drive-by Truckers
Erin McKeown
BR549
Ron Sexsmith
The Subdudes
Sarah Harmer (2x)
Pedro the Lion
Shurman/Jim Lauderdale
Jolie Holland
Robyn Hitchcock
Populist
The Sleepy Jackson
The Thrills
alaska!
BoDeans
Charlie Mars
Joss Stone
Toots & The Maytals
They Might Be Giants
Clay Leaverett
Joseph Plunket & The Weight
Pete Yorn
Nadine
Los Lonely Boys (acoustic)
Mavericks
Patty Griffin
Rosie Thomas
Iron & Wine
Stephen Clair
Slaid Cleaves
Old Crow Medicine Show

return

nearly 3 years since my last post.....i figured this would be more necessary....but since my memory is flagging, this may be my last best hope.

now if i can just remember my password we can get somewhere....

no new poem today. ok, one couplet:

art tolerates except
mr bush, who they hate

some skies are hazy
but better than cloudy skies?
can't see either way

Ode to self (first haiku):

poetry - no rules
doesn't mean it cannot suck
or even matter

another:

derivativeness
splendid for the calculus
bane of pop culture