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Reflections Upon a River


Haiku by Jacob Hibel

Cowboy boots and shorts
Would be my ideal wardrobe
My knees would stay cool




I'll build some ice-stairs
and dare you to skate down them
What are you, chicken?




If we lived in holes
Basements would be redundant
And doors wouldn't work




With a pile of bricks
I could build myself a house
A dangerous one




This bent paper clip
Might fit in the wall outlet
Who wants to find out?




Deep within the couch
There lies a dark mystery
Best to leave it there

Limerick by Jim Susinno
I say nuts to your jackets and suits;
I wear short shorts and tall leather boots.
I may look like a fool,
But my knees will stay cool -
A bottom line no one disputes.


I once built an ice covered stair - 
to descend it no sane man would dare.
You'd slip, lose your grip,
Bust a lip, break a hip,
and be stabbed by the ice skate you'd wear.


If people in holes could be found,
then dirt we would see all around.
Our basements would be gone
'cause we'd already be on
the floor of the house below ground.


Four walls and a roof o'er my head
and a place for my toilet and bed
Made from just bricks
With nothing that sticks
It would fall on me, then I'd be dead.


This paper clip has been bent
with somewhat suicidal intent.
Take it out of my pocket,
put it into the socket
and witness a shocking event!


Inside my couch theres a prize -
it lurks right there under my thighs.
but it doesnt feel right
to bring it to light,
so for now it will stay where it lies.



Haiku of Jacob Hibel:

Haiku flows from me
like urine after 6 beers.
They call me Jacob.


I just ate nachos
The sticky plastic cheez goo
Is stuck in my beard


That last sip of milk
Should never have crossed my lips.
Soon it will again.


O, grease in belly
O profound settling force
seems wrong - but feels right.


An unskipped pebble
plunges headlong into gloom
as if it were called


The turtle's hard shell 
Could not withstand the sedan
But was it meant to?


Telephone in hand
We can achieve no closeness
Of the type they knew


Inside a coiled tube
Where there is no beginning
We approach the end
More Limerick by Jim
All the half-assed haikus that I make
come out sounding a little half-baked.
But make no mistake,
my friend is no fake -
In haiku form, Jake takes the cake.


If time flowed from future to past
and things went by equally fast
we'd eat poop through our butts
as we grew down, not up
'til we turned into jism at last.


Ode to Ouroboros
There once was a serpent most queer
In his mouth he inserted his rear.
As he ate his own ass
he diminished in mass
and proceeded to just disappear.



To program in a manner thats terse
try to think of the code in reverse.
Just solve in one place
for the case that's the base
and for all other input, recurse.






Short poetry for the reader with a short attention span.
The system is rife with corruption and imperfect...
But if it saves one life - will it have been worth it?

Give all your friends your fondest thought,
but give no help where it's not sought.

Take honor with ardor, but not to your head -
let it go to your heart instead.


Nevermind the cost
We will do what must be done
Then regret the loss.

Let the games begin
He who falls and lags behind
Digs an early grave.


These are just some sentences I like:
Human beings are each born with one wing.  Privilege just means you're expected to do less.  We all urinate on American Standards every day.  Being a mortician is like being a doctor with none of the pressure.  Life grows.  I wear so many masks on top of masks... one day i came home and took off one too many.  Do you love love? Do you hate hate?  Is it possible to create destruction - by destroying creation?  What is is.

A new experimental piece of poetry - The Gatherer
Feel free to browse for your name, although this piece is intended for bots...


Thanks to the following literary influences:

The Prophets
The Dhammapada
The Tao Te Ching
The Upanishads
The Rig Veda
Paul Reps - Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
Dennis Genpo Merzel - The Eye Never Sleeps
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths

George Orwell - 1984, Animal Farm
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World, Ape and Essence
Yevgeny Zamyatin - We
Nevil Shute - On the Beach
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
Herman Hesse - Siddhartha
Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
Robert Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land
William Gibson - Neuromancer trilogy
Frank Herbert - Dune
Stephen King - Dark Tower series
Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
Neil Gaiman - The Sandman
Jack Kerouac - Dharma Bums
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Ray Bradbury - short stories
William Styron - Sophie's Choice
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five

Steven Hawking - A Brief History of Time