Saturday, October 31, 2020

Saturday Haiku

 Here are a couple more for you:


Today I heard

Dogs and cats through Auto-Tune

Singers sound the same!

* * *

One month in summer

Through the bedroom cupola:

Woken by the moon


I have been reading the notes to the Penguin haiku book and a remarkable number of them seem to be about either farting or masturbation. I don't recall that from when I first started reading haiku decades ago. I think they may have left those ones out. It is a bit like when I discovered, from reading an excellent book titled Shakespeare's Bawdy, that nearly everything the Nurse says in Romeo and Juliet is actually a dirty joke.

Some music? Perhaps a little Tōru Takemitsu. This is his Nostalghia for violin and orchestra.


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