{"id":2408,"date":"2007-12-23T08:20:17","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T15:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2007-12-26T15:20:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T22:20:01","slug":"haiku-is-for-for-thumbsuckers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2408\/haiku-is-for-for-thumbsuckers\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiku (is for) for thumbsuckers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big eyes
\nChubby thighs
\nCute as a spoon
\nCarol Boone<\/em><\/p>\n

The above little\u00a0mind spill\u00a0was my first and only\u00a0critically acclaimed\u00a0poem (if you\u00a0consider\u00a0scribbling\u00a0on a 6th grade blackboard a literary forum, and being suspended from school the first week back from summer vacation, critical)<\/em>. I quickly chalked\u00a0the ditty while\u00a0ninety-and-eight<\/a> of my classmates\u00a0went\u00a0scrambling into the\u00a0cafeteria for their lunchtime milk and porridge, those teeming, hopeless\u00a0non-romantics.\u00a0The unenlightened are so…well, sixth grade.<\/p>\n

The words popped into my head like a thumb snap\u00a0and\u00a0I felt\u00a0at once, an uncontainable\u00a0resolve to share with the world,\u00a0my\u00a0self-proclaimed perfect rhyme.\u00a0She was the most social of all the\u00a0pre-teen butterflies that\u00a0term and had,\u00a0with near lightspeed and\u00a0between Harvest moons almost, evolved\u00a0from her caterpillar\u00a0larval state into the colorful and elusive Carolboonemus Papillionus<\/em>.\u00a0I hated her. I loved her. I would eventually do the elementary school equivilant of hard time<\/em>\u00a0because of\u00a0her.<\/p>\n

Actually, it was the cigarettes in my knapsack that got me sent away that day but the poem on the chalkboard didn’t help–the Administration<\/em>\u00a0wasn’t thrilled with the word thighs,<\/em> or that I noticed they were in fact, a little chubby, or<\/em> that I erased\u00a0the first two (pretty\u00a0important, apparently)\u00a0letters of Pythagorean’s Theorem<\/em> from the afternoon lesson of a higher grade.<\/em>\u00a0 And thinking about it now, it’s probably the only reason I even remember<\/em> that darn postulate with all those right angles and square roots at all.<\/p>\n

It was pretty clear from that juncture\u00a0foward in life\u00a0that I would never\u00a0really be corporate (or political) material, no matter well\u00a0I cleaned up. \u00a0My record was blighted early on.\u00a0Perhaps I should have just begun\u00a0working on\u00a0my real estate career\u00a0right then and there (it\u00a0was<\/em>\u00a0after all, one of the easier tests I’ve ever taken). That<\/em>, or\u00a0started\u00a0honing my\u00a0free lance jingle writing\u00a0chops for the likes of Leo\u00a0Burnett, et al<\/em>. Either way, one thing would<\/em> soon become evident to this\u00a0perennial independent contractor; no\u00a0matter which way I turned in life, there stood I…straddling\u00a0that always present line that was drawn by someone else–real, imaginary, or otherwise.<\/p>\n

Let me\u00a0point out\u00a0that in the vast universe of\u00a0the written word, Haiku (5-7-5, so what?), limericks and elementary school poetry\u00a0rank only\u00a0slightly above\u00a0the Nursery Rhyme.<\/em> Maybe below.<\/em>\u00a0You can argue if you\u00a0wish but I stand pretty firm on this point. You Tube<\/em>, in my opinion,\u00a0also has to hover somewhere Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Big eyes Chubby thighs Cute as a spoon Carol Boone The above little\u00a0mind spill\u00a0was my first and only\u00a0critically acclaimed\u00a0poem (if you\u00a0consider\u00a0scribbling\u00a0on a 6th grade blackboard a literary forum, and being suspended from school the first week back from summer vacation, critical). I quickly chalked\u00a0the ditty while\u00a0ninety-and-eight of my classmates\u00a0went\u00a0scrambling into the\u00a0cafeteria for their lunchtime milk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15884,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15884\/from-man-alive-a-calculus-of-morality-on-a-first-grade-number-line\/","url_meta":{"origin":2408,"position":0},"title":"From Man Alive! – “A calculus of morality on a first-grade number line.”","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"From: Man Alive! 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