HAIKU MISC

Some towns are best viewed
In luminous retrospect
Having grown up there

A turd is ugly
No way to pretty it up
Some things are like that

Ravel's Bolero
Smooth operator's version
Seduction music

Now that you're retired
What's to do to fill the days?
Well, you make things fit

Man needs a woman
Telling him he's her hero
Not a nincompoop

The person who writes
Is not the who you are, but
The one that might be

Onomodopy:
It sounds like what it's being
Broadcasting pictures

Life's a vacation
Away from what passes for death
When bodies wear out

When's the time to live
If you don't believe in God
Or Heaven? It's now

Life's a bit of fun
Heaven's long on promises
Hell? Let's don't go there

Look at what's coming
Death is a life after all
So don't ignore it

Listen to Mahler
Take a stroll on a green screen
Fill in your own scene

Demagogue wanted
To take over OWS
"Communicator"

I'm saving the world
Trouble is, most people just
Ain't interested

You got leftovers?
Save 'em, make 'em into bread
Then that's all you eat

Henry

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HAIKU by HENRY

Straight up bebop jazz:
Cotton Candy for the ear
Pure ephemera

Composing music:
Write what e'er occurs to you
Tunes snatched from the air

Purged of life itself
Coming down to the end now
No bridge left unburned

Death comes tomorrow...
What will you have left behind?
Something substantial?

Playing piano:
Master the "thumb-under" move
Along with triads

In my dreamland I'm
A pianist and composer
Inventing new tunes

Some night I'll decide
I'm gonna stay in dream land
Bridge to the next life

To live in dreamland
Permanently is my wish
Finally achieved

If I had my choice
Here is how I'd like to die:
Go. Sleep. Don't wake up.

Did a bunch of stuff
I had no business doing
But it was there, so...

A new way to learn
How to play the piano:
Chords, not scales, to start

Not a follower
Nor inclined to leadership
Just want to be me

Here's the idea.
Just create the dialogue.
(Shouldn't be too hard)

Coupla characters
A one-act play, maybe more
Controversial though...

God creates the souls
Men and women make babies
Not at the same rate

More babies than souls
Thus our essences return
Time and time again

After each demise
Heaven's gate requires a choice:
Go in or go back

Each time St. Peter
Explains the alternatives
To new arrivals

The Lord's gatekeeper,
Helps each candidate's spirit
Make the decision

Retire to Heaven
Or wait in purgatory
For the next body

The choice is random
Or go to the end of the line
How democratic

Take a body here
Reincarnation bingo
To go live a life

You think you'd recall
Having existed before,
Ain't gonna happen

But talents survive
Make transitions to the new
Unaware of death

"Think outside the box"
Don't fear exploring unknowns
"Walk on the Wild Side!"

Play a three-note chord:
Three white keys each separate
By a single note

Improvise a tune
To the harmony you'll make
With the three-note chord

Only use white keys
At first to learn mo' better
Play a well-known song

"Hey diddle-dee-dee"
It's a doctor's life for me
Healing the body

Outlaw lobbying!
Take the money interests
Out of Washington!

Ban the Lobbyists!
Their money is ruining
The United States

The Jazz Band players
From the Darktown Strutters Hall
Made it all special

"Occupy Wall Street"
Figure things out now
The way they might be better

For Some, things couldn't get better
For others
They couldn't be worse.

Modern Confucius
Is what I'm aiming to be
Making sense today

I think extra-box...
Forbidden contemplations
...See if there's logic

...Educational
Playing in between the notes
Where the wild tones lurk

"OWS!" "OWS!"
A blog now to save us all
From ruin at the hands of Money

Please, not to worry;
I'll be back, and when I come
You'll recognize me

Henry

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