Many years ago, I'd look out my bedroom window, late at night, and see a jet plane flying overhead. I knew most of the people on that plane were fast asleep or focused only on the actions in the cabin, but there was one person on that flight, looking out the window, totally amazed at the lights below them and absolutely thrilled they were flying above some ground lights showing the location of a guy equally thrilled, as he watched them pass over. This person was on an adventure like none other. They were on a quest to find themselves and they were looking for clues from a jet liner's cabin window. I wonder if this individual remembers the communion they shared as they passed overhead. I wonder if their passing is as fresh in their memory as it is in mine.
I wonder if they found what they were looking for.
Saturday, January 28, 2017
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
is it anarchy yet
About this Trump phenomenon. I'm a little confused. When the American people protest, aren't they supposed to protest against the establishment? Isn't that rule number 1? In The Wild One, when the girl asked Marlon Brando what he was rebelling against, he said, "what ya got?", he was referring to any and all of the establishment ideals of the day. If it was establishment based, he and his biker gang was against it. To them, establishment meant limiting their freedoms to drink towns dry, make a lot of noise, accost young ladies, and piss off the old farts that ran the town.
Today, protesters fight for the right to maintain the establishment we've had for eight years that is endorsed by both major political parties and every alphabet organization our government has. I never heard of a political protest in favor of maintaining the status quo. I mean, aren't protests supposed to be in favor of changing a system that no longer works for the people?
Since the vast majority of protesters aren't interested in a Trump replacement, I'm led to believe the protesters are primarily anarchists, in favor of a government free of government. Now, THAT'S something I can get behind. But until that time comes, let's let Trump undo all the socialist crap Obama instituted for the last eight years before we try to rule ourselves.
If protesters can demonstrate how they can feed themselves as well as burn down supermarkets, I might give them some credit.
Anarchy is more than breaking Starbuck's windows.
Today, protesters fight for the right to maintain the establishment we've had for eight years that is endorsed by both major political parties and every alphabet organization our government has. I never heard of a political protest in favor of maintaining the status quo. I mean, aren't protests supposed to be in favor of changing a system that no longer works for the people?
Since the vast majority of protesters aren't interested in a Trump replacement, I'm led to believe the protesters are primarily anarchists, in favor of a government free of government. Now, THAT'S something I can get behind. But until that time comes, let's let Trump undo all the socialist crap Obama instituted for the last eight years before we try to rule ourselves.
If protesters can demonstrate how they can feed themselves as well as burn down supermarkets, I might give them some credit.
Anarchy is more than breaking Starbuck's windows.
Thursday, January 12, 2017
it's a miracle
A year and a half ago, we had the first republican debate where Fox's question to Trump insinuated he had a very low opinion of women, to which his answer was "Only Rosie O'Donnell." From that point on, Trump set the tone for the whole 2016 presidential race.
I thought he was just another Illuminati puppet, like all the rest that are put there for this regular sham theater. Presidents are selected, not elected. Anything that happens in Washington is always planned well in advance. Nothing is left to chance. Interactive bread and circus reality TV for the masses. Voting only gives us the illusion we make a difference. We don't. The champions are chosen and the winner is a done deal. The script is written, the actors are in place, and the election is rigged.
It wasn't until the second Clinton/Trump debate when I knew for sure that Trump was the real deal and not a ringer. He called out Bill Clinton as a rapist and Hillary as his enabler. He called Hillary a career criminal, listed some of her crimes, and said when he gets in office he'll have her arrested. This kind of talk is never part of the script. You don't slam the chosen one, especially the Clintons, in front of millions and millions of viewers all over the globe, unless you have some serious back-up. It's not just Hillary and her foundation. It's the shadow people who own her and everyone else. This guy has got some awesome protection, fer sure.
And then, a miracle happened. In spite of the propaganda and rigged election, Trump won. I mean, 11th hour, in your face, win. One by one, states turned red right before our eyes. Only the largest cities and a few states were blue. Of course, they were all sanctuary cities with a lot of democrat votes from illegals and dead people.
Take a look at this map. It shows the election results by county where Trump is red and Clinton is blue. The majority of Hillary's votes came from cities with the largest populations of immigrants, many of whom were, and still are, illegal. The two million votes, that supposedly gave Hillary the popular vote, came from Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. Most of the blue areas on the perimeter coincide with the easiest entry points into the US from foreign countries. It looks like an invasion by way of unguarded borders and international airports.
Illegal immigrants, by definition, can't vote. Right now there are ten states that allow, if not strongly encourage, illegal immigrants to get a drivers license. Many of these states automatically register the newly licensed illegal to vote. That's right. Under Obama the US of A became the first country on the planet to encourage non-citizens to vote. Of course, they don't know anything about our system of government and don't know what a democrat is but that's what they're registered as and that's the party they feel they have to vote for. That's potentially 4,120,000 illegals from south of the boarder voting democrat because they feel they have to. And that's only 37% of the Latino population.
The vast majority of Latinos came to this country for a better life and because most South American governments really suck. Mostly run by psychotic dictators who come into power through assassination with the help of globalist hit men, ready to trade power, mansions, and luxury cars for the country's natural resources until they don't have a country anymore and things go from bad to another level of hell. I don't blame any of these people for making the trip north. It's better here than Venezuela. What I don't care for is when they bring their slave mentality with them and try to turn this country into a larger version of the shit hole they left. And they're not even aware of it. They don't have a clue that the democrats want them only for a voting block to get them elected.
Like Obama said, "If you vote, you're a citizen."
Hillary had the backing of both political parties, wall street, corporate America, Washington DC, the banks, Saudi Arabia, George Soros, the liberal left, Trump haters, SJWs, mainstream media, the Bush family, the Clinton Foundation, LGBTs, snowflake college students, college professors, and damn near everyone else with an exaggerated sense of entitlement.
All Trump had was the military, evangelicals, various patriot groups, working people, critical thinkers, and the awakening masses.
The takers vs. the doers. Lies vs. truth. Corruption vs. honesty. Globalism vs. nationalism. Tyranny vs. freedom.
The dichotomy has never been clearer. To see it as just another election means you're still asleep.
When you put all the pieces together, the picture shows things the way they really are on so many different levels it's mind boggling. The election map shows not only who won but how many votes for which candidate by county. It shows the highest concentration of Hillary voters are in the largest cities, where Trump has the support of the rust belt, the bible belt, the great plains, and pretty much the interior of the country. The heartland of America.
The election map also shows the easiest access points for illegals to enter the country as well as the highest populations of Latinos. Those areas are blue.
If it wasn't for the electoral college, just the voters in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York would be enough to give Hillary the win and the demographics of these three cities would dictate the laws of the land because only the voters of these cities need to be pandered to. Imagine life in the USA if movie stars, actors, and gangsters got every law passed they liked. It'll be Agenda 21 on steroids.
Here's an illustration to show you where Hillary's extra two million votes came from. LA alone had over twice as many democrat votes as Manhattan. Even more amazing is there were more voters in Florida this election than all of California, and Broward county (Ft. Lauderdale) had the most votes out of that state at 243,567.
As South American refugees tend to settle in cities, the Muslim population is growing faster than the worlds largest religion. Estimates of the number of Muslims living in the US is believed to be somewhere between 3 and 7 million. No one really knows the exact number but whatever it is will be outdated tomorrow. Muslim immigration has increased by 66% in the last decade and Obama is hell bent to dramatically increase that number.
In his book Slavery, Terrorism, and Islam, Peter Hammond wrote a detailed analysis on the proportion of Muslims to the overall population and increased violence and adherence to Sharia law. Hammond’s research reads like a roadmap to ruin; a horrifying picture of the future of civilization. To summarize an oft-quoted section:
In the last three years alone, 300,000 Muslims immigrated to the United States. The Refugee Resettlement Program is paving the way for a mass of Muslims to flock to our shores. With the United Nations in charge of determining who qualifies for refugee status and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (formerly the Organization of the Islamic Conference) as the power broker at the UN, you can count on a flood of Muslim refugees to be arriving at a town near you, if not your own town, very soon.
The Preferred Communities Program considers rural areas and small towns a better place for refugees and immigrants because these areas are better suited to provide the special services these people need. (Yeah, right) And this is the UN telling us how many refugees to take in and where they should be placed. All those red areas on the map, the heartland of America that voted for Trump, is slated for Islamic occupation by order of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
The problem is Hillary, who was supposed to continue Obama's dream of turning America into an Islamic nation, lost the election to Trump.
And that's the miracle.
I poured over this information for weeks and I'm just as awestruck now as I was the day after the election. Against all odds, one man saw the big picture and stepped forward and financed his own campaign and got elected as the leader of the free world. This was a man who didn't drink or do drugs. Never had anything in his past that could be used for blackmail. He was clean, successful, and had a great family just as clean as he was. He's also smarter than his opposition and every step he took in his rise to the white house was pure, calculated genius. The mainstream media was all in for Hillary, as well as everyone else involved in Washington politics. Some senators backed him, withdrew their backing when it looked like he was in a jam, and quickly backed him again when he looked like he was winning, showing the world what pussies our congress is made up of.
Hillary was the queen of entitlement and ran her 90's style campaign on two issues. Bashing Trump and "I want to be president because it's my turn." She bought all the super delegates with Saudi money, paid off the DNC, got the debate questions before the debates, stole the nomination from Bernie with help from the DNC, owned the mainstream media and dictated to CNN on what to say to put Hillary in the best light while slamming her opponent. She spoke to rallies that half filled an auditorium for 20 minutes and go take a nap. Sometimes her rallies were so small they had to cgi the crowds and pay a few bus loads of people with cash and t-shirts to fill half a high school gym.
Hillary lied and cheated her way through the whole campaign and it was painfully obvious to anyone who paid attention. Her programmed minions and the never Trumpers missed it entirely and when it was clear to Hillary that she lost, she went on a drunken rampage, screaming at everyone, calling Al Gore on the phone and bitching like a retard with leg cramps about how it was in the bag and Trump beat her, and blaming everyone for her disgraceful failure but herself.
Two months later her Hillarybots are still in a state of tfull retard, doing their best to flail at the cold reality that the democratic party and everything they worked for is gone.
CNN, the last bastion of establishment Clinton hope, put another nail in the MSM coffin by headlining totally fake news about Russia, Trump, prostitutes, and golden showers, one week before the inauguration, in a cheap attempt to discredit the guy who beat Hillary. Eight years ago CNN was reporting what the Obamas were going to wear to the inauguration and if the president elect should accept his Nobel peace prize before or after the event. This year they're headlining piss and prostitutes and Trump's fabricated involvement. Sniff, sniff... smells like legacy media death to me.
The media gives us the impression there are two kinds of people. Those who like Trump and those who don't. Those who like him are happier than ever with a profound sense of optimism for the future. Those that hate Trump parrot the same propaganda the legacy media have been programming them with for the past year. "He's a racist, a bigot, he hates women, he's unstable, and doesn't have what it takes to be president." Their delusional perceptions are matched only by their flawed collective clairvoyance by adding, "He'll start a nuclear war!"
I look at the Trump haters and the rest of their tantrum throwing, crybaby ilk as sleepwalking zombies, bereft of any sense of critical thinking or spirituality, who may never wake up and join the rest of the world in the paradigm shift that's heading toward us at light speed.
To be clear, I have nothing against the far left. I look at them like a bunch of people with the same mental disorder, convinced you're wrong unless you share the same delusions as they do. They're like members of some creepy cult like $cientology or that bunch who followed Jim Jones and drank the koolaid. Some people you just can't reach.
I wish I was a super-genius inventor and could come up with a way to make a telephone into an explosive device that was triggered by hatred of Trump's presidency. The battery could explode and leave a mark on the face, so I could know who to avoid talking to before they even talked. And I could look and say, "Hmm, no you're not gonna be saying anything that's going to add any value to my life."
The paradigm shift is going on now. 2008 was the beginning and Obama was the right man to usher in chaos, racism, bigotry, accelerated diversity, SJWs, LGBTs, 47 flavors of gender, prayer rugs in the white house, race riots, economic destruction, and all the bleak prosperity we deserve for falling asleep at the wheel and not paying attention to what our public servants have been up to.
And rightly so, Trump is the man for this season, as a cosmic course correction, to navigate the proper heading for all humanity. Our constructs are all going down. It's the Titanic and the sleeping masses are bitching because the waiter isn't filling the water glasses fast enough. Everything we know is changing before our eyes. The old and obsolete are dissolving while a new system is emerging from the rubble. It's inevitable. It's gonna happen. You can't stop a wave. The best you can do is adapt and learn to surf.
And this is just the beginning. You aint seen nuthin yet.
“The planet Pluto channels the Shiva energy, which is the revolutionary energy of catharsis that one way or another destroys all old forms and thought forms that cause people to cling to ignorance and old ways steeped in illusion and delusion. … The period of late 2008 to 2024 is the period when all the karma accrued in the Piscean Age will be worked out.” – Omna Last
Better buckle up. 2017 is gonna be a hell of a ride.
I thought he was just another Illuminati puppet, like all the rest that are put there for this regular sham theater. Presidents are selected, not elected. Anything that happens in Washington is always planned well in advance. Nothing is left to chance. Interactive bread and circus reality TV for the masses. Voting only gives us the illusion we make a difference. We don't. The champions are chosen and the winner is a done deal. The script is written, the actors are in place, and the election is rigged.
It wasn't until the second Clinton/Trump debate when I knew for sure that Trump was the real deal and not a ringer. He called out Bill Clinton as a rapist and Hillary as his enabler. He called Hillary a career criminal, listed some of her crimes, and said when he gets in office he'll have her arrested. This kind of talk is never part of the script. You don't slam the chosen one, especially the Clintons, in front of millions and millions of viewers all over the globe, unless you have some serious back-up. It's not just Hillary and her foundation. It's the shadow people who own her and everyone else. This guy has got some awesome protection, fer sure.
And then, a miracle happened. In spite of the propaganda and rigged election, Trump won. I mean, 11th hour, in your face, win. One by one, states turned red right before our eyes. Only the largest cities and a few states were blue. Of course, they were all sanctuary cities with a lot of democrat votes from illegals and dead people.
Take a look at this map. It shows the election results by county where Trump is red and Clinton is blue. The majority of Hillary's votes came from cities with the largest populations of immigrants, many of whom were, and still are, illegal. The two million votes, that supposedly gave Hillary the popular vote, came from Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. Most of the blue areas on the perimeter coincide with the easiest entry points into the US from foreign countries. It looks like an invasion by way of unguarded borders and international airports.
Illegal immigrants, by definition, can't vote. Right now there are ten states that allow, if not strongly encourage, illegal immigrants to get a drivers license. Many of these states automatically register the newly licensed illegal to vote. That's right. Under Obama the US of A became the first country on the planet to encourage non-citizens to vote. Of course, they don't know anything about our system of government and don't know what a democrat is but that's what they're registered as and that's the party they feel they have to vote for. That's potentially 4,120,000 illegals from south of the boarder voting democrat because they feel they have to. And that's only 37% of the Latino population.
The vast majority of Latinos came to this country for a better life and because most South American governments really suck. Mostly run by psychotic dictators who come into power through assassination with the help of globalist hit men, ready to trade power, mansions, and luxury cars for the country's natural resources until they don't have a country anymore and things go from bad to another level of hell. I don't blame any of these people for making the trip north. It's better here than Venezuela. What I don't care for is when they bring their slave mentality with them and try to turn this country into a larger version of the shit hole they left. And they're not even aware of it. They don't have a clue that the democrats want them only for a voting block to get them elected.
Like Obama said, "If you vote, you're a citizen."
Hillary had the backing of both political parties, wall street, corporate America, Washington DC, the banks, Saudi Arabia, George Soros, the liberal left, Trump haters, SJWs, mainstream media, the Bush family, the Clinton Foundation, LGBTs, snowflake college students, college professors, and damn near everyone else with an exaggerated sense of entitlement.
All Trump had was the military, evangelicals, various patriot groups, working people, critical thinkers, and the awakening masses.
The takers vs. the doers. Lies vs. truth. Corruption vs. honesty. Globalism vs. nationalism. Tyranny vs. freedom.
The dichotomy has never been clearer. To see it as just another election means you're still asleep.
When you put all the pieces together, the picture shows things the way they really are on so many different levels it's mind boggling. The election map shows not only who won but how many votes for which candidate by county. It shows the highest concentration of Hillary voters are in the largest cities, where Trump has the support of the rust belt, the bible belt, the great plains, and pretty much the interior of the country. The heartland of America.
The election map also shows the easiest access points for illegals to enter the country as well as the highest populations of Latinos. Those areas are blue.
If it wasn't for the electoral college, just the voters in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York would be enough to give Hillary the win and the demographics of these three cities would dictate the laws of the land because only the voters of these cities need to be pandered to. Imagine life in the USA if movie stars, actors, and gangsters got every law passed they liked. It'll be Agenda 21 on steroids.
As South American refugees tend to settle in cities, the Muslim population is growing faster than the worlds largest religion. Estimates of the number of Muslims living in the US is believed to be somewhere between 3 and 7 million. No one really knows the exact number but whatever it is will be outdated tomorrow. Muslim immigration has increased by 66% in the last decade and Obama is hell bent to dramatically increase that number.
In his book Slavery, Terrorism, and Islam, Peter Hammond wrote a detailed analysis on the proportion of Muslims to the overall population and increased violence and adherence to Sharia law. Hammond’s research reads like a roadmap to ruin; a horrifying picture of the future of civilization. To summarize an oft-quoted section:
When the Muslim population remains at or under 2%, their presence tends to fly low under the radar. In the 2% – 5% range, Muslims begin to seek converts, targeting those they see as disaffected, such as criminals. When the population reaches 5% they exert influence disproportionate to their numbers, becoming more aggressive and pushing for Sharia law. When the population hits the 10% mark Muslims become increasingly lawless and violent. Once the population reaches 20%, there is an increase in rioting, murder, jihad militias, and destruction of non-Muslim places of worship. At 40%, there are “widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare.” Once beyond 50%, infidels and apostates are persecuted, genocide occurs, and Sharia law is implemented. After 80%, intimidation is a daily part of life along with violent jihad and some state-run genocide as the nation purges all infidels. Once the nation has rid itself of all non-Muslims, the presumption is that ‘Dar-es-Salaam’ has been attained – the Islamic House of Peace.
In the last three years alone, 300,000 Muslims immigrated to the United States. The Refugee Resettlement Program is paving the way for a mass of Muslims to flock to our shores. With the United Nations in charge of determining who qualifies for refugee status and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (formerly the Organization of the Islamic Conference) as the power broker at the UN, you can count on a flood of Muslim refugees to be arriving at a town near you, if not your own town, very soon.
The Preferred Communities Program considers rural areas and small towns a better place for refugees and immigrants because these areas are better suited to provide the special services these people need. (Yeah, right) And this is the UN telling us how many refugees to take in and where they should be placed. All those red areas on the map, the heartland of America that voted for Trump, is slated for Islamic occupation by order of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
The problem is Hillary, who was supposed to continue Obama's dream of turning America into an Islamic nation, lost the election to Trump.
And that's the miracle.
I poured over this information for weeks and I'm just as awestruck now as I was the day after the election. Against all odds, one man saw the big picture and stepped forward and financed his own campaign and got elected as the leader of the free world. This was a man who didn't drink or do drugs. Never had anything in his past that could be used for blackmail. He was clean, successful, and had a great family just as clean as he was. He's also smarter than his opposition and every step he took in his rise to the white house was pure, calculated genius. The mainstream media was all in for Hillary, as well as everyone else involved in Washington politics. Some senators backed him, withdrew their backing when it looked like he was in a jam, and quickly backed him again when he looked like he was winning, showing the world what pussies our congress is made up of.
Hillary was the queen of entitlement and ran her 90's style campaign on two issues. Bashing Trump and "I want to be president because it's my turn." She bought all the super delegates with Saudi money, paid off the DNC, got the debate questions before the debates, stole the nomination from Bernie with help from the DNC, owned the mainstream media and dictated to CNN on what to say to put Hillary in the best light while slamming her opponent. She spoke to rallies that half filled an auditorium for 20 minutes and go take a nap. Sometimes her rallies were so small they had to cgi the crowds and pay a few bus loads of people with cash and t-shirts to fill half a high school gym.
Hillary lied and cheated her way through the whole campaign and it was painfully obvious to anyone who paid attention. Her programmed minions and the never Trumpers missed it entirely and when it was clear to Hillary that she lost, she went on a drunken rampage, screaming at everyone, calling Al Gore on the phone and bitching like a retard with leg cramps about how it was in the bag and Trump beat her, and blaming everyone for her disgraceful failure but herself.
Two months later her Hillarybots are still in a state of tfull retard, doing their best to flail at the cold reality that the democratic party and everything they worked for is gone.
CNN, the last bastion of establishment Clinton hope, put another nail in the MSM coffin by headlining totally fake news about Russia, Trump, prostitutes, and golden showers, one week before the inauguration, in a cheap attempt to discredit the guy who beat Hillary. Eight years ago CNN was reporting what the Obamas were going to wear to the inauguration and if the president elect should accept his Nobel peace prize before or after the event. This year they're headlining piss and prostitutes and Trump's fabricated involvement. Sniff, sniff... smells like legacy media death to me.
The media gives us the impression there are two kinds of people. Those who like Trump and those who don't. Those who like him are happier than ever with a profound sense of optimism for the future. Those that hate Trump parrot the same propaganda the legacy media have been programming them with for the past year. "He's a racist, a bigot, he hates women, he's unstable, and doesn't have what it takes to be president." Their delusional perceptions are matched only by their flawed collective clairvoyance by adding, "He'll start a nuclear war!"
I look at the Trump haters and the rest of their tantrum throwing, crybaby ilk as sleepwalking zombies, bereft of any sense of critical thinking or spirituality, who may never wake up and join the rest of the world in the paradigm shift that's heading toward us at light speed.
To be clear, I have nothing against the far left. I look at them like a bunch of people with the same mental disorder, convinced you're wrong unless you share the same delusions as they do. They're like members of some creepy cult like $cientology or that bunch who followed Jim Jones and drank the koolaid. Some people you just can't reach.
I wish I was a super-genius inventor and could come up with a way to make a telephone into an explosive device that was triggered by hatred of Trump's presidency. The battery could explode and leave a mark on the face, so I could know who to avoid talking to before they even talked. And I could look and say, "Hmm, no you're not gonna be saying anything that's going to add any value to my life."
The paradigm shift is going on now. 2008 was the beginning and Obama was the right man to usher in chaos, racism, bigotry, accelerated diversity, SJWs, LGBTs, 47 flavors of gender, prayer rugs in the white house, race riots, economic destruction, and all the bleak prosperity we deserve for falling asleep at the wheel and not paying attention to what our public servants have been up to.
And rightly so, Trump is the man for this season, as a cosmic course correction, to navigate the proper heading for all humanity. Our constructs are all going down. It's the Titanic and the sleeping masses are bitching because the waiter isn't filling the water glasses fast enough. Everything we know is changing before our eyes. The old and obsolete are dissolving while a new system is emerging from the rubble. It's inevitable. It's gonna happen. You can't stop a wave. The best you can do is adapt and learn to surf.
And this is just the beginning. You aint seen nuthin yet.
“The planet Pluto channels the Shiva energy, which is the revolutionary energy of catharsis that one way or another destroys all old forms and thought forms that cause people to cling to ignorance and old ways steeped in illusion and delusion. … The period of late 2008 to 2024 is the period when all the karma accrued in the Piscean Age will be worked out.” – Omna Last
Better buckle up. 2017 is gonna be a hell of a ride.
Tuesday, January 03, 2017
missouri haiku
Last week I was in the shower doing my morning rub-a-dub-dub when my higher self gave me a blast of inspiration.
It said, "Go to Missouri and find a small town and walk around this town to get the pulse and feeling of it and write haiku. Then go to the rest of the lower 48 and do the same thing. You will publish a book on small town America haiku and it will be a best seller. This will be your life's work."
First, never in a million years would I consciously consider going to Missouri, let alone hang around a small town in Missouri until I was inspired to do a haiku on it. I've been to Missouri and I can't think of one reason to go there again. Second, visiting a small town in 47 other states would be preferable. Logic dictates Missouri should be first, if it was remotely logical to tour the US on a poetry tour. But logic has nothing to do with this. I seem to be on a mission from a higher being and I can't say no. Third, the phrase, "life's mission", implies I'll be around long enough to perform this task. Part of this deal is a published book that will become a best seller. Not that I crave fame, but the odds of my book (if it ever gets written or published) becoming a best seller could take at least a few decades. If I don't go on this mission, I could theoretically live forever.
Not being too keen on immortality or a quick death, I decided to do it.
I had to refresh my memory of haiku construction. It's been a while.
Essentially, Japanese haiku is three lines. 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables, with a juxtaposition and a season and about 16 other rules. Being American, I think I can get a pass on the other 16.
I don't like the way
Life has been abusing me
By summer I'm gone
Don't read anything into this. It's just a Zappa haiku with a season as an example. If Hannibal, MO would be considered a small town the Haiku might be more like this:
Tom Sawyer lived here
Injun Joe lived down the road
They were summer friends
Ok, so there's a lack of juxtaposition but I have til warm weather to get my haiku act together and that's the least of my worries. The big question is, which car do I take? The Expedition that gets the same gas mileage as a Peterbuilt but rides like a Cadillac or the Caravan with better mileage and a 5-speed? I figure the Caravan with enough supplies to carry, in case it dies on the road and I have to hitchhike the rest of the way.
Either way, the universe wouldn't send me on a mission like this without some kind of divine protection. I'll just put my faith in knowing what to do when the time comes.
I got a couple of months. Anything can happen.
It said, "Go to Missouri and find a small town and walk around this town to get the pulse and feeling of it and write haiku. Then go to the rest of the lower 48 and do the same thing. You will publish a book on small town America haiku and it will be a best seller. This will be your life's work."
First, never in a million years would I consciously consider going to Missouri, let alone hang around a small town in Missouri until I was inspired to do a haiku on it. I've been to Missouri and I can't think of one reason to go there again. Second, visiting a small town in 47 other states would be preferable. Logic dictates Missouri should be first, if it was remotely logical to tour the US on a poetry tour. But logic has nothing to do with this. I seem to be on a mission from a higher being and I can't say no. Third, the phrase, "life's mission", implies I'll be around long enough to perform this task. Part of this deal is a published book that will become a best seller. Not that I crave fame, but the odds of my book (if it ever gets written or published) becoming a best seller could take at least a few decades. If I don't go on this mission, I could theoretically live forever.
Not being too keen on immortality or a quick death, I decided to do it.
I had to refresh my memory of haiku construction. It's been a while.
Essentially, Japanese haiku is three lines. 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables, with a juxtaposition and a season and about 16 other rules. Being American, I think I can get a pass on the other 16.
I don't like the way
Life has been abusing me
By summer I'm gone
Don't read anything into this. It's just a Zappa haiku with a season as an example. If Hannibal, MO would be considered a small town the Haiku might be more like this:
Tom Sawyer lived here
Injun Joe lived down the road
They were summer friends
Ok, so there's a lack of juxtaposition but I have til warm weather to get my haiku act together and that's the least of my worries. The big question is, which car do I take? The Expedition that gets the same gas mileage as a Peterbuilt but rides like a Cadillac or the Caravan with better mileage and a 5-speed? I figure the Caravan with enough supplies to carry, in case it dies on the road and I have to hitchhike the rest of the way.
Either way, the universe wouldn't send me on a mission like this without some kind of divine protection. I'll just put my faith in knowing what to do when the time comes.
I got a couple of months. Anything can happen.
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