Haiku Train

[pseud]

think about the trees,
wear what you like too, "hippie,"
keep your hair that long.


(a jester-barrie hybrid)

(jesterberry...is that the name of a berry? It should be.)

[Jester]

think about the trees -
stood respiring rampantly.
Shady characters

[Bombadil]

Think about the trees
that bore Strange Fruit when you aren't
thankful for freedom.

[Jester]

Keep your hair that long.
trees will only grab it -
shady characters

[Jester]

thankful for freedom
after cutting your hair off -
No more hippies here.

[barrie]

No more hippies here -
I mean ones that I can see.
Pass the hearing-aid.

[Jester]

Pass the hearing-aid.
Hear Crosby, Stills and Nash?
The swish of long skirts?

[barrie]

The swish of long skirts
and the whistle of short ones;
the noise of fashion.

[Jester]

The noise of fashion
and musically we have
the fashion of noise

[barrie]

the fashion of noise
popular in deaf circles
echoes of nothing

[juliadebeauvoir]

Echoes of nothing:

Nothing, nothing, nothing, ing,
ing, ng, g, g, g......

[Jester]

ing, ng, g, g, g
is cheating, ing, ng, g, g,
I think, ink in mind.

[barrie]

I think ink in mind
colours the many dark thoughts
welling up in there

[ennui]

Welling up in there,
what might be unbearable,
were it not so light.

[barrie]

were it not so light
the sun would tumble to Earth
and burn us all up

[twoleftfeet]

And burn us all up?
Quick! Get the Police to play
Invisible Sun

[barrie]

invisible sun
on the dark side of the moon
is a paradox

[twoleftfeet]

Is a paradox
a small Pink headache pill or
an Army surgeon?

[barrie]

An army surgeon
always obeys the call to
arms and all the rest

[twoleftfeet]

Arms and all the rest?
He's a lanky sawbones - there's
No shortage of limbs

[barrie]

No shortage of limbs
claimed the Antipodean,
Jake the bloody Peg

[twoleftfeet]

Jake the bloody peg
won't stay on - Treasure Island
wasn't worth the Op

[barrie]

Wasn't worth the Op?
Wasn't worth the bloody cheese -
Just you ask Ben Gunn.

[Jester]

Just you ask Ben Gunn,
"What's it like to rot alive,
smelly article?

[barrie]

smelly article
is something found in 'the Sun' -
maybe just bad taste