Supremacy

[dukealien]

Supremacy


Color of the Light
a prism fans to rainbow
glory must be White.

[rowens]

I used this same joke in a book I wrote in 2007.


It involved Hitler. Hitler is a go to.

Color doesn't exist without light.
But most color is lightblind. Ew EW

There is no race, I repeat. I sing my song.

I refuse any notion of race whatsoever. Except in context of my comedy act.


"Race only exists for the sake of comedy."--me.

This goes to a question from another thread.
How did you write this poem? How did it come up?

Blame Tranquilitybase for putting Gurdjieff back in my drunken head.

[dukealien]

Well, y'see, that's the problem.  Race, like other aspects of the real world, exists independent of our comedy (and tragedy) acts.  Civilization, too, exists whether or not we acknowledge its existence; multiple civilizations, in fact, and most of them reject the others rather than "appropriating" (that is, accepting)  chow mein, Oktoberfest, parliaments and haiku from them.  Today we have that accepting color of civilization twisting around and rejecting itself, the mirror twice polarized, as it were.  The result is, of course, darkness.  Make jokes about it, or light a candle.  We're the people living at the time.

I used this same joke in a book I wrote in 2007.


It involved Hitler. Hitler is a go to.

Color doesn't exist without light.
But most color is lightblind. Ew EW

There is no race, I repeat. I sing my song.

I refuse any notion of race whatsoever. Except in context of my comedy act.


"Race only exists for the sake of comedy."--me.

This goes to a question from another thread.
How did you write this poem? How did it come up?

Blame Tranquilitybase for putting Gurdjieff back in my drunken head.

[Tiger the Lion]

Supremacy


Color of the Light
a prism fans to rainbow
glory must be White.

I realize we're in MISC but wanted to mention something. With the Capitalization of "Light" and the connotations surrounding word choices like "supremacy" and "glory", a reader might read this as regarding the Christian Christ. I can't tell for sure if that is an intended subtext. Either way, there's too much to unpack for a haiku/senryu. Still enjoyed it, mind you. 

[rowens]

Well, y'see, that's the problem.  Race, like other aspects of the real world, exists independent of our comedy (and tragedy) acts.  Civilization, too, exists whether or not we acknowledge its existence; multiple civilizations, in fact, and most of them reject the others rather than "appropriating" (that is, accepting)  chow mein, Oktoberfest, parliaments and haiku from them.  Today we have that accepting color of civilization twisting around and rejecting itself, the mirror twice polarized, as it were.  The result is, of course, darkness.  Make jokes about it, or light a candle.  We're the people living at the time.

I used this same joke in a book I wrote in 2007.


It involved Hitler. Hitler is a go to.

Color doesn't exist without light.
But most color is lightblind. Ew EW

There is no race, I repeat. I sing my song.

I refuse any notion of race whatsoever. Except in context of my comedy act.


"Race only exists for the sake of comedy."--me.

This goes to a question from another thread.
How did you write this poem? How did it come up?

Blame Tranquilitybase for putting Gurdjieff back in my drunken head.

Nothing exists outside of comedy.

[dukealien]

So you're saying tragedy exists inside comedy?  Well, okay... but when you're living inside a tragedy, comedy is very difficult, not so?

[TranquillityBase]

So you're saying tragedy exists inside comedy?  Well, okay... but when you're living inside a tragedy, comedy is very difficult, not so?

Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/10/26...y-is-hard/

[dukealien]

Supremacy


Color of the Light
a prism fans to rainbow
glory must be White.

I realize we're in MISC but wanted to mention something. With the Capitalization of "Light" and the connotations surrounding word choices like "supremacy" and "glory", a reader might read this as regarding the Christian Christ. I can't tell for sure if that is an intended subtext. Either way, there's too much to unpack for a haiku/senryu. Still enjoyed it, mind you. 

I'm pretty sure this is neither haiku nor senryu, more of a scientific observation.  Senryu does, however, have to do with people, so maybe.

Always fun to find out how different what others unpack is from what (I thought) I packed.  "Many tubes, few rounds, all at once on a single point."

[rowens]

Laugh at everything. Forgive everything. Heal everything.

I've been saying this for months. You haven't got the pamphlet?