Ay Corona- Scathing Senryu
lets quarantine the Chinese
maybe in Russia...
First I wanna quickly say that I have nothing against the Russians... or the Chinese, this poem was born of my flinty little Brit heart which was marinated in a mixture of pickling vinegar and sarcasm shortly after I popped out of my sainted mothers nether regions 😂
Please, if you're going to take offence make sure you take this fence.
I listened to a radio show the other day run by a guy called Jermey Vine here in the UK. On this show he was spouting the usual panic rhetoric about the Coronavirus and had recruited a doctor to answer questions from the rag tag of crazies that were calling in a fevered fervor of misinformation.
A woman rang up this panel and asked if she should quarantine her husband who was returning home that day from a business trip to Singapore.
In my mind I could just see this poor fella, quarantined to the bathroom, having his dinner fed to him through the garden hosepipe.
Or maybe, banished to live in the doghouse to live with Fido for the next few weeks! If the dog dies, then all is not well and he might have the dreaded Corona!!!
Ffs, this type of shit just exemplifies the levels of hysteria we as a society are prepared to get ourselves into, and how much the media loves to facilitate our mania. Anything to sell another paper, or boost ratings... or promote some fckn other bollocks.
Ha ha, and out of my insane musings a little poem sprouted like a flower from a suspiciously dried up turd.
Anyway, rant over 😉
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Haiku Vs Senryu - The Aesthetics of Form
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I was going to write "haha, someone should help that turtle."
Then I read your haiku-senryu post and that led me to wonder about haibun because of a poem by Roger Robinson in his latest book, A Portable Paradise, called "Haibun for the Lookers". It says in wikipedia (ever helpful): a prosimetric literary form combining prose and haiku. I don't know about that, but it's a powerful poem. I quoted a bit here.
Someone should still help that turtle.
Hi Shani
Yeah, this could definitely be considered Haibun... although the Japanese masters, like Matsuo Basho, would be turning in their graves to see my disrespect and sarcastic use of the form. They also might beat me with a bamboo rod for my proses' light hardheartedness and of the cuff use of vernacular:
Poor fellathat's one whack of the bamboo tickle stick...I wanna quickly saysecond lashing of the stick of ultimate enlightenment ;-)P.s. I agree that the turtle needs a leg up :)