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Hey You Haiku by Jellybean of Thark
November 12th, 2007 9:15 PM / Location: 33.941081,-115.9057haiku and unseen
I've let studies with both lapse
best to start easy
I've let studies with both lapse
best to start easy
Haiku and being sneaky are two things I love. Being out of practice, I thought I'd start easy.
The fourth floor of an office building provides great cover.

I espied two test subjects:
This tree appeared the night before, so...

i'm glad you waited
took you a while to show up
i hate early trees
took you a while to show up
i hate early trees
This arrow, it has been confusing me since we moved into this building. It directs traffic into an office building, yet there's a driveway.

i just don't get you
do you want me to get hurt
what's in that building?
do you want me to get hurt
what's in that building?
Thus:
haiku'd!


Fish in a barrel, aye, but I feel the juices in my brain get juicy.
Later, over a dinner of chicken and pot roast, Heatherlynn spots three little boys. Obviously brothers, they are two redheads, and a brunette. Maybe because we're at Disneyland they remind her of Huey, Dewey, and Frank (Frank being the little brown haired kid). I get a picture of them in the mirrored wall.
So I scratch this out:
huey, dewey, and frank
jr. woodchucks of legend!
wait, who's this frank guy?
jr. woodchucks of legend!
wait, who's this frank guy?
But like a chump, this is where I lose my nerve. I wanted to present these lads with their very own haiku, thought they'd get a larf out of being compared to Donald's nephews. However, if you've ever been to Disneyland, you've probably watched otherwise sensible parents get good and cranky. Perhaps it's the long lines and the noise. He didn't seem an exception, and I didn't want to exacerbate any foul mood by having him deal with some strange man give his sons a poem he just wrote for them.
FAIL!
So we do what anyone else would do. We drove to Joshua Tree.
We got there somewhere around 1:30 in the morning, and drove around for a nice, long while looking for a campground with an empty spot. Maybe an hour later, we finally find a spot. We grab one of the empty parking spots that're attached to the campground. We stay up for a little while chatting and getting spooked. First, something jumps on our windshield. It scurries across the windshield and runs across the roof. The second time it does this, we can tell it's just a little desert mouse.
Not much later, while wondering what this thing was

one of our neighbors, hooded and big jogs past. It's one of those very sudden things, and he startled me. He was just on his way to the toilet, I suppose.
In the morning, I see this:



I'm completely hidden to the outside world. I can see my neighbors stirring and moving around. Being still inside a be-fogged car, they can't see me.
When we pulled in the night before, our headlights picked up a sleeping bag set up on this picnic table. This is where the pee ghost came from. To the right, is the bush where the mouse probably came from. Directly ahead, a nice big rock pile.

Okay, let's do this!

hallo! ship ahoy
aye, this fog hides your colors
oh yeah, it's desert
aye, this fog hides your colors
oh yeah, it's desert

sudden nighttime spook
just some guy who had to pee?
wait, where did you go?
just some guy who had to pee?
wait, where did you go?

are you full of mice?
was that one of your tenants?
mouse on the windshield
was that one of your tenants?
mouse on the windshield

ahab or the whale
which one are you, which am i
don't give me that look
which one are you, which am i
don't give me that look
Thus:
haiku'd!

That's a little purple post-it right above the bumper.

Since the pee-ghost had vanished, I left a small blue post-it on the grill next to his table. His haunted table.

It was easier than I thought to stick a post-it to a bush.

It was harder getting the post-it to stick to a sandstone formation.

Haiku'd and climbed.
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posted by Loki on November 13th, 2007 12:14 AM
You went to an office building, Disneyland, and Joshua Tree all in one day? That's quite a day.
Even though it doesn't quite fulfill the task as specified, I really like this completion. A haiku (senryū?) about misleading turn sign stuck to a parking meter is pretty funny.
posted by Charlie Fish on November 13th, 2007 6:37 AM
sf0 captain
posts contextual haikus
i want to vote now
posted by Jellybean of Thark on November 13th, 2007 7:21 AM
the disneyland part
that was real disappointing
easy to hide there
that was real disappointing
easy to hide there
posted by Fonne Tayne on November 13th, 2007 9:15 AM
new tags for the win?
centered zM smiles fast
vote forsenryu satori
centered zM smiles fast
vote for
posted by Jellybean of Thark on November 16th, 2007 11:11 AM
satori, honest?
sir, let me tell you i'm touched
now i do a dance
sir, let me tell you i'm touched
now i do a dance
posted by adeline on November 29th, 2007 7:18 PM
hahaa!
such fantastic work
sticky note in a green bush
haiku'd like a pro
posted by Jellybean of Thark on November 30th, 2007 10:07 PM
thank you, tree lady
later i removed the note
fear of littering
later i removed the note
fear of littering
My favorite is "It was easier than I thought to stick a post-it to a bush." Very nice, and I love the documentation of all the attempts, as well as the thoughtfulness.