pynchon-l-digest V2 #1627

[Gabe Luci]

But it is a Haiku!  The first line is the title.  Be forgiving bro'

Gabe

Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:42:42 +0100
From: lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de (lorentzen-nicklaus)
Subject: Re: Haiku:  P-List Poppa

David Morris schrieb:

> >On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, s~Z wrote:
> >
> > > These new kids are great, aren't they?
> >
> >On Thursday 25 Jan, Mark David Tristan Brenchley wrote:
> >
> >	?

> Our Grampa s~Z
> Bouncy-bounces us kiddies
> On his knee (avoid his lap)
> Wheee! Whee! Wheee, Grampy!


  david, please don't call this a haiku! a haiku has three lines and the
  syllable structure: 5 - 7 - 5. i know that there is a tendency in america
to
  call every kind of short poetry "haiku". yet, the original structure is,
imo,
  a special quality of the haiku, working as a counterpart to the everyday
  openness of its content. somehow like baudelaire's freakish poetry becomes
  even more disturbing through his staying with the classical sonnet form in
  some of his best poems.

  and then it's not quite fair ... our self-declared meta-host would really
like
  to answer the question, but in fact he can't ... you know, in cali there's
  these days that shortage of electricity ...

  be seeing you: kai