Thursday, September 01, 2011

haiku: the quiet toilet

in homage/parody, yet again, of basho's pond haiku :)

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the quiet toilet
the shit drops in
the sound of water

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2 things...

first, it is said that basho wrote the pond/frog haiku while in a medititative state. isn't the act of sitting/shitting on the toilet also a medititative act?

second, can't shit be a valid subject for poetry? or, reframing the question, can't shit be a subject of valid poetry? not that i'm claiming that my... err... "haiku" is poetry, but you can't really shut poetry in a cage while expecting it to fly, no?

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