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Palintology

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s000z
 on September 29, 2008
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Censorship?

As the Sarah Palin Haiku Collection continues to proliferate, I’ve noticed a serendipitous chronology forming.  The shock stage: exploitive sound-bytish slams of WTF.  Then action –my friend Sarah Sims calling for donations to Planned Parenthood in Palin’s name and now, finally, the more reflexive, meta-historical phase, ushered in my Uncle Don, the autodidactic history buff.

Uncle Don’s recent contribution was so outta my league that I had to request contextual clarification.  I am consequently providing the commentary as an autonomous blog post.  If my WordPress skills prove technically ept enough, I might even fig out a way to link this to that.  In the case that the in wins over the ept—here’s the haiku again:

tipped canoe got tiled
old Zachary was filled more
and what about abe?

Okay.  So, this is the explanation I asked Don to send:

Dear Susanna,

The first 3 presidents to die in office were William Henry Harrison (“Tippecanoe”), Zachary Taylor, and Abraham Lincoln.

“Tippecanoe” gained his sobriquet fighting the great Indian Chief Tecumseh, and the generals famous campaign slogan was “Tippecanoe and Tyler too” -
Tyler being his VP candidate, and apparently one of our worst subsequent Presidents.

Harrison caught cold at his inauguration, refusing to wear a
coat in a cold rain, and died a month later.

Zachary Tyler, whom I admire, was I think a model for U. S. Grant, who
served under him in the Mexican War. He died after about 16 months in
office, purportedly after eating a bowl of cherries with milk. There
is unconfirmed speculation that he was poisoned. His VP, Fillmore, was
again a president of very low caliber.

Abe (Lincoln) is the great, enigmatic icon of American ideals. His VP,
Andrew Johnson, is difficult to assess due to the turbulence of the times.
He was nearly impeached and kept his office by only a margin of 1 vote.

Regards, your uncle Don

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Haiku Originations

Published
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s000z
 on September 7, 2008
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Short story about my afternoon w/ SP
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Apologies to those of you who get this already.  I am not posting it to talk down to anyone or anything.  It’s just that several people have emailed me saying they love the idea of haiku but are not sure exactly how to write haiku or have to think about it for a while since they haven’t done this since high school or whatever.  Might well be the reason so many people have written me that they’re not sure how to go about it is that it’s something so fresh and utterly in the moment that don’t realize how simple it is so long as the basic premise is followed.  And if you get this already, you can go ahead and skip to the next blog post, I guess.  At any rate, Eastern Haiku is  a seventeen syllable poem.  Divided into syllabic lines of 5-7-5 and are mindful of the topic, the haiku will write itself. Matsuo Basho is the Eastern haiku master—he created the brief simple 17 syllable form. Kerouac is the one who innovated the contemporary Western Haiku, created a haiku that does not adhere to such tight syllabic structure but rather, takes the relevant and re-appropriates.  I find it liberating to embrace the opportunity to embrace the restrictions, thereby grounding the 17 syllable for against the formlessness of multiple combos times multiplex which is why I stick w/ the 5-7-5.  While I don’t consider any of my haikus my best writing, I do like the process of constructing it.  Light, accessible yet clean and elegant brain candy.  Okay, enough from me, tho.  Real reason I’m going on and on about this is to provide a link to this article about haiku that I found on The Huffington Post.  Check it out, if you have (a) the inclination (b) the time (c) in inability to control the distraction (d) the impulse to invite distraction in (e) none of the above.  There are some haiku blogs and essays out there that are kinda lame.  Others are not particularly lame, per se.  Just really obvious color by number-ish.  This essay, I like, tho.  Found it on Arianna Huffington’s Blog.  So I link.  Here tis—

Haiku: Do You Haiku by, John Lundberg

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Sarah Palin Haikus

Published
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s000z
 on September 1, 2008
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Palintology
Short Story About My Afternoon w/ SP
Haiku Originations
Censorship?

This is a forum
for connecting to the now
Sarah is our muse
Wanna write haiku?
Click “comments,” and submit reply
So easy!  Who knew?

Sam Teigen’s Haikus
Experience talk
Palin in comparison
straight talk gone crooked

Big state Alaska
Takes a lot of area,
Big resume gap

Straight talk impulses
Executive branch gamble
Hardly country first

Peter Orvetti’s Haikus
Go-go boots, big hair
Miss Congeniality
Darwin is a lie

She came from nowhere
Veep and grandma in a week
Moose burgers for all!

Debate coming soon
Biden my time till I see
Palin to compare

Nancy and Richard’s Haiku 11/2
Palin is wailin’
We hope she goes a sailin’
Tuesday to Russia!
Haikus from the Editor:  In Response to David Sa****e’s Palin Haikus Posted 10/29

Well, I posted them.
Because I hate censorship.
But I will respond:

Savage!  Barbaric!
Harsh on “retard kid?”  That’s sick!
“Joe Sixpack,” that’s fine.

But, “hooker spy”
What the fuck is that about?
She isn’t either!

David Sa****e’s Haikus

Is it troubling Nascar Dad
and Joe Sixpack
Masterbate to you?

If I shotgunned her
and hung her hide on my wall
am I elitist?

From the snow they sent
a hooker spy with retard.
Eskimo power!

s000z’s Haikus
To Sarah:
Creationist freak!
Don’t take antibiotics
seriously, don’t!

Try to understand
“Theory of Evolution”
ain’t conjecture, babe.

Use the library
and I mean, sit there and read,
creationist freak!!

(I still love AK
Palin wont take that away
It’s such a big state)

To The New York Times:
Hate to defend her
but wardrobe budget attacks?
Biden has his ties!

Don Bassman’s Haikus

Governor Palin Haiku #001
Against your allure,
in normal circumstances,
I have no defense.

Governor Palin Haiku #002
tipped canoe got tiled
old zachary was filled more
and what about abe?

Governor Palin Haiku #003
Metamorphasize
if the mantle of power
ever covers you

Governor Palin Haiku #004
Wonderful Haiku
the rough words conveniently
take a proper form

Governor Palin Haiku #005
echolailiaech
olailiaecholailia
What was that you said?

Governor Palin Haiku #006
one for me and you
one for my associates
one for the devil

Governor Palin Haiku #007
Nixons right-hand heirs -
environment pollution
taints what it touches

Governor Palin Haiku #008
Opportunity
wafts through our nations spirit
like a garden rose

Governor Palin Haiku #009a
just like an old hen
I lay one egg every day
Bok Bok cluck old hen

Governor Palin Haiku #009
come down Buck-a-roo
leaves of grass lay all around
many years have passed

Governor Palin Haiku #010
Marx stirred on the news
the continental divide
had split asunder

Governor Palin Haiku #011
The train to nowhere
sped past the station on time
her blue lights flashing

Governor Palin Haiku #012
the stag was wounded
blood trickled from his nostril
onto the white snow

Governor Palin Haiku #013
the dealer was sharp
the deck was stacked against me
the dice were loaded

Governor Palin Haiku #014
Can I have a loan?
Your personal profile sucks.
Sorry too risky.

Governor Palin Haiku #015
many leagues we traveled
our sleek ship followed the breeze
the wrong direction

Governor Palin Haiku #016
monopolist wire
connects through vital lifelines
back to the king’s house

Governor Palin Haiku #017
The magic forest
could not be found so I wept
in the gloomy shade

Governor Palin Haiku #018
John is my hero
Barack my lamp joe my sage
Sarah is my muse

Governor Palin Haiku #019
Foreign policy
without decency is like
Justice without teeth

Governor Palin Haiku #020
my fascination
exceeds my appalation
for reasons unknown

Governor Palin Haiku #021
What brilliant flower
will manufacture the seeds
of its destruction?

Governor Palin Haiku #022
The M4 chattered
Mother and daughter perished
in each others arms

Governor Palin Haiku #023
Wall Street gave 3 cheers
The defender was brought low
Let the good times roll

Governor Palin Haiku #024
The wild-eyed stallion
bucked and plunged maddened with fear
by the riders spurs

Governor Palin Haiku #025
Nobody could see
the force of chain reaction
would unleash a bomb

Governor Palin Haiku #026
my feeder is frail
the cows dine at the table
a circle of peace

Governor Palin Haiku #027
Gently the boat tossed
The Orca reconsidered
” – not now – bad PR”

Governor Palin Haiku #028

It’s Finality.
The whistle blows but no cheers
- must be a tie game.

Governor Palin Haiku #029
8 grey years gone by
its a stumble, not a fall
in the words of abe

Special Guest Haiku, by Jack Kerouac
Hitch hiked a thousand
miles and brought
You wine

Scott’s Haikus

Love that you had the same idea as my friends and I.   From our own site:

vapid vacuous
you are a neurotoxin
now no more talking

(my friend erin’s – genius)
pit bull with lipstick
there’s a word for lady dogs
if the lipstick fits…

lo’ pregnant daughter
why don’t you put your gun down
practice what you preach

Thomas Huynh’s Haikus

Fundamentalist
Fine in church but not in state
Founding Fathers roll

Why drill baby drill
When you have God’s plan: Iraq
Pray for that Palin

Support earmarks then
Somehow Palin forgot that
“Thanks but no thanks,” riiight

Written collaboratively by, Kelly Cooney, Damona Resnick-Hoffman and Susanna Speier

A deep thought about
Sarah Palin.  It is tough.
Post it on the blog.

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DNC Haiku/ Previous blog is morphing/ Into bitten blips

Published
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s000z
 on August 30, 2008
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Karen Goldner‘s Haikus
Aug 30th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
I’ll try for you Suse
Writing Democratic haiku
What a convention

“Crowd thunders” indeed
To be part of history
Means more than I can express

Phil Fox Rose‘s Haikus
Aug 31st, 2008 at 1:18 pm
News adds to discord
by showing it
Delegates embrace history

Irene Gravina’s Haikus
Aug 31st, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Dennis Kucinich/Knocked everyone’s socks off/cool speech I must say

Thomas Huynh‘s Response
Irene and others who might be interested,
We highlighted Kucinich’s speech on our site: http://forum.sonshi.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2779

Thomas Huynh‘s Haikus
Aug 31st, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Obama who’s he
He is anti Bush McCain
Palin go back home

Michelle smart and strong
Behind good man good woman
Malia Sasha

Sep 1st, 2008 at 7:58 am
Blog entry before
A comment: What a day makes
Hang in there be good

Keep on doing your
thing despite what people say
many join later

s000z’s Haikus
Traffic at snail speed
The stadium with SWAT team
Try Lite Rail instead.

Oxymoron time:
Republican protesters?
Only CNN.

Mickey O kicks off
Delegate reaction shots
I see my cousin!

Obama says yes
We can yes we can yes WE
The crowd thunders back…

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