The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Friday afternoon at the Haiku-lodeon ...

     

    This week's batch + ...
     
     
    He could memorize
    any Shakespearean role ...
    His shopping list? D'OH!
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    He soon discovered,
    ice-skating was not his 'thing'.
    His 'thing'? Falling down.
     
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    Nervously, she paced.
    It was well after midnight,
    and she'd heard no news.

     

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    Wishing her the best,
    he shook her hand, grabbed his bags,
    and boarded the train.
     
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    He stood very still.
    Slowly, his essence emerged.
    And hope swirled 'round him.
     
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    Chronic mnemonics
    (unlike harmonic phonics),
    can be demonic!
     
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    His fancy footwork
    often gets him out of binds,
    but his ankles hurt.
     
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    Let us elevate,
    our dialogue and our lives ...
    eschew the mundane.
     
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    tanka haiku: Frantically, she searched
    through every drawer and cabinet,
    for her missing blouse.

    (It's in the dirty laundry;
    worn on that awful blind date.)
     
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    We wince, we shudder,
    we bite our lip. We endure.
    Mere pain won't stop us.
     
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    My dear old friend, it's
    nice we can be so honest.
    (Love you, hate that dress.)
     
     
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    Success often stands
    on the shoulders of failure.
    Never give up hope.
     
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    He tried to please her,
    he tried to reason with her,
    she tried his patience.
     
     
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    Fiefdoms multiply,
    dividing up the landscape,
    adding no value.
     
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    Dimpled darlings, done
    dunking donuts, dare drinking
    double demitasse.
     
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    Is there anything,
    more satisfying than to
    help others achieve?
     
     
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    Willows in the wind,
    gently swaying back and forth,
    like sleepy dancers.
     
     
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    As the years went by,
    he could not forget her eyes;
    so filled with kindness.
     
     
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    A remote sand dune,
    hides a young couple in love,
    from all ... but one dog.
     
     
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    With a gleeful squeal,
    the little girl in the park,
    discovered the slide.
     
     
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    Saw a sign today,
    That said 'Stand Up MRIs' ...
    "Take my x-rays ... please."
     
     
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    Walking through the woods,
    I find a weathered birdhouse,
    nailed onto a tree.
     
     
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    The sun was shining
    as he stumbled to his bed,
    the first draft finished.
     
     
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    He flipped through pages
    of sad poetry before
    finding his haiku.
     
     
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    He meditates, then
    'dissolves into his being.'
    (Don't wake him from naps!)
     
     
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    The confused tourist:
    "Don't they speak French in Paris?"
    Tour Guide: "We're in Minsk."
     
     
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    We're on a spaceship
    traveling through time. Can we
    stop to buy ice cream?
     
     
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    Here's an animation video I made promoting the Feb. 23rd fundraiser that I am working on, which is called, 'The Best Medicine' ... Check it out, the 'actors' are masters of deadpan delivery. 

     

     

     

     

     

    Comments

    You made your own cartoon?

    Wow.

    I mean I enjoyed this week's haikus and everything...

    But you made your own cartoon?

    Wow.


    It's amazing what you can find on the internet, these days.  I stumbled upon this website called xtranorml, and it lets you create your own animated videos with computerized voices, and everything.  The only trouble is, the vocal inflections are sometimes a bit weird and getting the voices to pronounce certain words correctly.  For example, they had a heck of time pronouncing 'Spondylitis'  until I figured out that I had to spell it for them as 'Spon dee light us'... It is the 21st century, we've sent men to the moon, now even idiots like me can make animated videos.  LOL


    I love your haikus but damn.

    I am really impressed with this cartoon and its message and your charitable works.

    I cannot believe you put this together in an hour; you spent time on this!

    Again, well done.