10-17-2015, 12:01 AM
well, it is funnier, but it is a good deal clearer. besides, the best lessons are learned with bits of humor:
"The old pond,
a frog jumps in:
Plop!"
or clearer, funnier, yet more different still:
"See the happy moron,
He doesn't give a damn!
I wish I were a moron--
My God! Perhaps I am!"
* - I knew this new book of poetry I purchased would come in handy!
**-First poem a haiku by Basho, as translated by Alan Watts; second titled "The Moron", by Anonymous (or maybe Dorothy Parker, in her days flaming Scientology)
"The old pond,
a frog jumps in:
Plop!"
or clearer, funnier, yet more different still:
"See the happy moron,
He doesn't give a damn!
I wish I were a moron--
My God! Perhaps I am!"
* - I knew this new book of poetry I purchased would come in handy!
**-First poem a haiku by Basho, as translated by Alan Watts; second titled "The Moron", by Anonymous (or maybe Dorothy Parker, in her days flaming Scientology)