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I think Wilco's haiku contest on Twitter is pretty interesting. It's fun to look at what other people write.

Has anyone else submitted anything? Feel like sharing it with all of us?

 

 

Here's mine:

 

Leaves fall from the trees

Feet's crisp crunching drowned out by

Someone Else's Song.

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These are terrific! :cheers

 

I used to love our Via Chicago Wilco haiku threads back in about 2002 to 2004! But then some folks got all "purist" about what really constituted a proper haiku, so I stopped posting them because it stopped being fun. But now we can all unleash our inner "poets".

 

Here's a couple I submitted:

 

 

Blood spattered hair

Hitchcockian mad horror

The trunk must be cleaned!

 

and:

 

Who loves ya baby?

This is a job for Wilco

Depend upon it.

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The school I went to wasn't the fussed on teaching us haikus, actually I don't think they were fussed on teaching us anything. So after googling haikus, then moras (man I had better win that guitar after all this edumacating myself), these are my efforst:

 

They make me think

What do you want me to be?

And I've been puking

 

or

 

Auckland last summer

My seven worlds collided

And the sun came out

 

I tried posting some on twitter, but they didn't appear on the twitter list when I followed the link. Have I done something wrong or does it not show up everyones? Twitter was also something they didn't teach me in school, but I can't really blame them for that since it wasn't invented then.

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Can we enter more than one per email? Or should I send multiple emails? Should I mount the SG on the wall or do I dare play it? :stunned

 

Probably easier for them to select winners if the haikus are sent individually. And no, I'm not going to let you play my new SG. Sorry, Ken. :cheekkiss

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Well, then I'll post them here so I can copy them into individual emails more easily. I got a bit carried away.

 

Set #1: one per member (these all work as a set)

 

channeling townsend

rock god play and posturing

yeah strike that pose pat

 

 

in back but not lost

melodies rain down from mike

laptop boy no more

 

 

forget the earthbound

string and pedal transcendence

nels floating above

 

 

glenn's rattling sticks

time triumphantly locked-in

fell in love indeed

 

 

steady through and through

thumping never soared so deep

anchor around john

 

 

somberly funny

enjoyably serious

tweedy's dues are paid

 

 

 

Set #2: random stuff I thought of.

 

song stuck in my head

left over from halloween

will stay 'til new years

 

 

 

picky Wilco fans

snobbish fan club complaining

is this a demo?

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Who else can deliver

Poetic versions of life

In double denim

 

So tight in concert

'Cept one thing to bitch about

Missing Nudie suit

 

I T M W L Y

How long until band goading

Makes Glenn strike the pose?

 

Looking at the Loft

Full of junk but to paraphrase

Where there's muck there's class

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chrome hell morphs vinyl

bull black heart beats sad

syncopated tears

 

desert island lost

one sweet wing befriended me

crooked aural grin

 

four years ago my

day was made when tweedy said

my name at the show

 

my weak knee trembles

he smiled and said hello

not wishful thinking

 

hot sticky happy

tears roll down my cheek

as i sing along

 

high waters and amp

fuzz turned all the way to ten

cathartic release

 

neckard beard grown long

anxious road worn song relates

on and on and on

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