The Good Blur

Shoes for Industry! Shoes for the Dead! – Firesign Theatre

Monday morning meaning has gone through many permutations through my days. From hope to dread. Trepidation to turpitude. Triumph to terror. Always a turning point highlighted by a calendar infused post industrial revolution angst about gain and loss, productivity and projections. The get some ethos of our time.

No longer just another day of existence, it was a morning where I stepped back into the world of commerce and played the role I had chosen, or was chosen for me, out of necessity to earn my daily bread by hook or by crook; as was glorified on the entertainment platforms and corporate shill magical moments; to make me want what I had been shown to really really need to be happy.

Yes, and I helped. Daily blur, became weekly blur, folding into yearly blur, cascading down through decades of blur. Just make it through another day so I could make it stop.

The good blur. The productivity blur. The compensated blur. The blurry blur.

Then I got a new role and worked evenings and weekends. Friday afternoon became my Monday morning, with all the same alchemical needs. Only later in the day, and frankly with much less stress. It was just a job and no longer a career. I could cruise on through the five day cattywampus week, with only daily task mapping to keep my steps to a minimum, and as a result, the pain to a minimum.

Now, with those calendar deadline days behind me, and aging into the time of life that medical care could not bankrupt me; I have distilled Mondays down to their essence into this haiku.

Sort

Monday morning sort.
What to do? What to read? What
to post on my feed?

Amen

Haiku Peek-a-boo

Once Upon A Time in an Attic

So I’m sitting at my desk which is nowhere near as nice a desk as the RDP prompt desk picture, and with nowhere as nice a view as the said desk has. Instead I will regale my RDP friends with the stale crusts of my week of #haikufeels prompts instead.

Threading the Needle

SECRETE
watch the vile bile
ooze out that a nation tried
to secrete away

COMB
Comb over? Not me.
Back of head solar panel
keeps me charged all day

HOPE
I have lots of hope
The cynic in me says nope
My hope on a rope

ARCH
time to wake up now
arch my back, reach for the sky
the good morning stretch

ROLL
let the hype roll on
foolish twaddle cash spew, no
hobgoblin minds changed

FUSE
Never confuse a
fuse with a circuit breaker.
Result would shock you.

JOURNAL
my journal entry
was this; "pulling the bestial
towards the celestial"

Bath

Sometimes you have to 
get out of the fantasy
bath and dry off with
the towel of reality.
No matter what. Don't Panic.

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The Guide says a towel “is the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have … you can wrap it around you for warmth … lie on it … use it as a sail on a mini-raft … wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat … wave it as a distress signal in emergencies … and of course use it to dry yourself off, if it still seems to be clean enough.”

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – Douglas Adams

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P.S. I write a tanka for a word prompt on Mastodon. Lo and behold, the RDP of the day is “galaxy”. Ain’t life grand 😁

Apples and Origins

Toots and Twaddle 3

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com
the oranges of the 
species on display in one
who's missing a link
Sally's soup was thin
Stu's stew was thick and tasty
Mixed? Thick and thin grin
Breaking through the crust
of my inner life. Send up
a flare for pizza.
a blanket over 
my head won't stop the horror
behind my eyelids
Craiyon
once upon a time
winter grass was what was in
last year's heavy coat
put the nettle 
to the metal kettle
said the blossom
to the stem
"Tea time!" ah Clem
Craiyon

Toots and Twaddle 2

Craiyon
you never see the
pillow coming before the
night that has no dawn
🎼 I'm looking over
A short billed plover. That I've
never seen before🎵
Craiyon
nothing under her
sable coat, boss man's wife sent
my ardor soaring

The carrot loves you.
Now the trick is to make friends
with the big bad stick.
Craiyon
Albino lizard
Goes by the name of Blizzard
Slithers o're the land
Craiyon
Early mourn dream gap
I hear the boneyard dog howl.
Not now big bad hound.
Craiyon
belief in the flat
earth balanced on a radish
in the middle rules
When the acid rain
Makes the fields start to fizz
The plop plop should come