A Night in the Suburbs
Neighborhood night calm
Cutting off calls, one two three
A plumber with pipes
Cutting off calls, one two three
A plumber with pipes
Bwooop!
The trio vs. the pirate-ladyman Recently lis opined that no native Utard remembers Lighthouse 20, the kid show that was broadcast on UHF channel 20. Now I have a slight dispute with lis, in that I remember the pirate on the show was played by a woman, and she recalls someone very different (a man, I presume). Now Lighthouse 20 was not by any means my favorite show (hell I think it replaced Gillagan's Island!), but I do remember it--not really fondly but I remember it. The real purpose of my writing is that I made the comparison of Lighthouse 20 to Hotel Balderdash--a show that apparently ran for 10 years on channel four here in SLC. Now this show was the bomb; not only did it start at 6:00 am 6:45 am and show nothing but 30's-late 40's Warner Brothers cartoons (you know, Bugs and Daffy, but not Porky Pig and certainly not that crap WB churned out from the 50s onward.) These cartoons, of course, were made for adults and the humor was mostly sophisticated in a slapstick kind...
Haiku really sucks for context.
ReplyDeleteI should have probably made it a haibun. In any case, here is a contex: 1) the neighbor across the street must have had a plumbing problem as their was a plumber in his truck cutting a length of pipe. 2) the 17-year-old kid up the street was wandering aimlessly arguing with 2 or perhaps 3 girlfriends. He would click between the arguments, one two three.
ReplyDeleteOr a series of haiku? I like the idea of a chain of them--implying a narrative, but fragmentary. I like your phrasing in any case--
ReplyDeletecutting off calls, one two three
Do you know Ashbery's poem 32 haiku? (although I really don't remember the number . . . ) Each haiku is written as a single line. He takes the idea of a haiku and adapts it freely. I bet you would like this poem.
Okay, it's here
http://coursedocs.slcc.edu/engl/lbickmore/haiku%20lecture.htm
in a "lecture" I wrote for an early version of my online poetry writing course. It's near the end. It's 37 Haiku, from A Wave.
I like the series idea, lisa b.
ReplyDeleteI don't know Ashbery's work. Thank you for the link.