[Dixielandjazz] Haiku and you mostly OT

[David Richoux]

you mean this one?
(to keep it from being totally OT - recently I was in a Honolulu Uke  
shop - they had a great "Jazz Age" uke with original illustrations by  
"Ding" Darling painted on it, ( somewhat like this: http:// 
www.pbase.com/csw62/image/70419213 )

and another Uke that was made to look like a can of Spam... pictures  
available on request.

Dave Richoux

Grotesque pinkish mass
In a blue can on a shelf
Quivering alone


Like some spongy rock
A granite, my piece of Spam
In sunlight on my plate


Oh Argentina!
Your little tin of meat soars
Above the pampas


The color of Spam
is natural as the sky:
A block of sunrise


Little slab of meat
In a wash of clear jelly
Now I heat the pan


Oh tin of pink meat
I ponder what you may be:
Snout or ear or feet?


In the cool morning
I fry up a slab of Spam
A dog barks next door


Pink tender morsel
Glistening with salty gel
What the hell is it?


Ears, snouts, and innards,
A homogenous mass
Pass another slice


Cube of cold pinkness
Yellow specks of porcine fat
Give me a spork please


Old man seeks doctor
"I eat Spam daily", he says.
Angioplasty


Highly unnatural
The tortured shape of this "food"
A small pink coffin


Slicing your sweet self
Salivating in suspense
Sizzle, sizzle..Spam


Pink beefy temptress
I can no longer remain
Vegetarian

On Apr 13, 2007, at 4:34 PM, eupher dude wrote:

> List-Message-Recipient: tubaman at tubatoast.com
> I will give a HUGE thank you to anyone who can reprint here the  
> wonderfully infamous "Spam Haiku" from the mid-90s, contributed by  
> then-lister Karen Quick.
>
> Anyone?  Bueller?  Bueller??
>
> Seriously, that was the most wonderful piece of poetry I've ever  
> seen, in a sick and perverse way.
>
>
> steve
>