Warrior Haiku

Direct strong attack,
Direct bold response,
Slowly tightens the mainspring.

Pros from Dover

"Trapper: [to the head nurse in a hospital] Look, mother, I want to go to work in one hour. We are the Pros from Dover and we figure to crack this kid's chest and get out to the golf course before it gets dark. So you go find the gas-passer and you have him pre-medicate this patient. Then bring me the latest pictures on him. The ones we saw must be 48 hours old by now. Then call the kitchen and have them rustle us up some lunch. Ham and eggs will be all right, steak would be even better. And then give me at least ONE nurse who knows how to work in close without getting her tits in my way.
Assistant nurse: How do you want your steak cooked?"

from Mash, the movie

John Keats

Keats did not invent his own epitaph. He remembered words from the play Philaster, or Love Lies-Ableeding, written by Beaumont and Fletcher in 1611. "All your better deeds / Shall be in water writ," one of the characters says. Keats told his friend Joseph Severn he wanted on his grave just the line, "Here lies one whose name was writ in water."

Keats tombstone reads:

THIS GRAVE CONTAINS
ALL THAT WAS MORTAL OF
A YOUNG ENGLISH POET WHO
ON HIS DEATH-BED
IN THE BITTERNESS OF HIS HEART
at the malicious power of his enemies
desired these words to be engraved
on his tomstone"
HERE LIES ONE WHOSE NAME
WAS WRIT IN WATER"
FEB 24 1821

Apparently Severn could not follow Keats simple instruction.

Curious

I'm curious,
How did you go about building your life?
Where did you start?
What did you do?
How did you figure it out?
What does it all mean?
On second thought, skip that last question.

Words, For What?

Words, for what?


Big words,
Code words,
Heated words,
Fighting words,
Chilling words,
War of words.


Healing words,
Warm words,
Comforting words,
Persuasive words,
Words of wisdom.


Keep your word,
Break your word.


Beyond words.


Words, for what?


Words lead to deeds.
They prepare the mind for action.

My Work

The law is not an ass.
It is an axe,
And I am the axe handle.

Current Events

Dissatisfaction with one's present circumstances is not an ideology.

Haiku

On butterfly wings
the whole of human life is
powder to the touch