andshewas Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 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 treesFeet's crisp crunching drowned out bySomeone Else's Song. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
u2roolz Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 I like my girl's foodI wish I had some too mooWilco loves me too Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kidsmoke Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 These are terrific! 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 hairHitchcockian mad horrorThe trunk must be cleaned! and: Who loves ya baby?This is a job for WilcoDepend upon it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wise Enough Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 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 thinkWhat do you want me to be?And I've been puking or Auckland last summerMy seven worlds collidedAnd 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Kinsley Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 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? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kidsmoke Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 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? 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SeattleC Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Wilco makes me cry Wilco makes me sing with joy How can I keep up? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Kinsley Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 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 townsendrock god play and posturingyeah strike that pose pat in back but not lostmelodies rain down from mikelaptop boy no more forget the earthboundstring and pedal transcendencenels floating above glenn's rattling stickstime triumphantly locked-in fell in love indeed steady through and throughthumping never soared so deepanchor around john somberly funnyenjoyably serioustweedy's dues are paid Set #2: random stuff I thought of. song stuck in my head left over from halloweenwill stay 'til new years picky Wilco fanssnobbish fan club complainingis this a demo? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kidsmoke Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Ken! You're a poet!! Yowza! Those are good! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Kinsley Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Thanks! I got on a bit of a roll and just went with it. Took about a half hour. I came up with the one about Pat, then it just didn't seem right to leave everyone else out! I'll probably be ruled out due to overkill. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gobias Industries Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 a shot in the armit feels like i'm kicking asi wilco to feel that's the one i just submitted. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wise Enough Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Oh I'm going to have to lift my game, you guys are good! Chase the sun to OzI promise I Will ComplyNo videoing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beautiful & Stoned Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Wow these are good. Here's a shot: My eyes are quietI don't know nothing aboutHiding my soft skin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Albert Tatlock Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Who else can deliverPoetic versions of lifeIn double denim So tight in concert'Cept one thing to bitch aboutMissing Nudie suit I T M W L YHow long until band goadingMakes Glenn strike the pose? Looking at the LoftFull of junk but to paraphraseWhere there's muck there's class Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Albert Tatlock Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Well heeled comforterThat rug has seen some actionBut not the Fergie kind Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Albert Tatlock Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Cell high in the airScribbling setlist and no doubtCounting the nothings Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Albert Tatlock Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Post concert tube rideBet there is no such hassleOn the C T A Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Albert Tatlock Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Setlist has one wordThree guitars in unisonImpossible Eh? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SarahC Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 chrome hell morphs vinylbull black heart beats sadsyncopated tears desert island lostone sweet wing befriended mecrooked aural grin four years ago my day was made when tweedy saidmy name at the show my weak knee trembleshe smiled and said hellonot wishful thinking hot sticky happytears roll down my cheekas i sing along high waters and ampfuzz turned all the way to tencathartic release neckard beard grown longanxious road worn song relateson and on and on Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Albert Tatlock Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 ^ Those are really really good (spot the English major?) Seems like a past ageOn first hearing Mermaid AveT'was the start for me Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SarahC Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 fabricated homelost in relational soundgood to be alone (i can't stop writing them now!) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wise Enough Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Radios and bloodCigarettes and violenceWilco haiku done. Well they do sing about those things a lot. So bored on nightshift I have nothing better to do than play with words. Very clever contest, though they may be regretting it now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anthony Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 a cherry ghost bornmy heart thin with little thingsabyss in motion Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MattZ Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 listen to my eyessinging radiator tunesand then you will know Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lizish Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 from some concert story and the sit down/stand up dilemma: I sit downI stand up and moveElaine's dance Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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