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11/27/24 Haiku for the Day

Come die like we die.
Come and lose yourself with us
Oh Adam of life

Blast from the Past (an aphorism this time):

Life’s complicated but also simple. And sometimes how it can be both at the same is part of its complexity.

Sit in a meeting
Solving random math problems:
The puzzle instinct

Blast from the Past:

Stuck here in a meeting
Only my dreams will wonder
These vivacious streets

So many parts of the world
Assembled
To absorb sweat on my back:

The travels of my t-shirt

Blast from the Past:

Austere ties, vibrant
Music, and yet it is still
A church of hunger

The sun of freedom
Only radiates more brightly
When forced into a dark chamber

Blast from the past:

No more politics
To dilate our eyes as we
Look upon the world

Bored in a meeting,
Scribbling down a haiku,
But no one can see.

Blast from the Past:

Sitting with your work
Wondering who will read it
Utter loneliness

Brief introduction
To your friendly neighborhood
Totalitarianism

Blast from the past:

Young lad standing proud
Once the pride of our nation
Slouched into nothing

Standing here within
The dust cloud of our data-
Saturated world

Blast from the past:

Failure of elites
Paranoia for decline
Deep undercurrent

Out of the ocean,
Rise sparkling buildings like a
Magnifying glass

Blast from the Past:

Stern buildings gazing down
On bare avenues
Through lifeless window panes

You will fall back down
To earth eventually:
Gravity’s promise

Blast from the past:

Wretched of the earth
Living with bad surroundings
Tragic deception

Henceforth: no more light
At the end of the tunnel.
Budgetary cuts

Blast from the Past:

In a land flowing
With milk and honey, why am
I stuck with the curds?