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Pigeon Poetry

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Went for my eye exam last week.  No changes so I decided this was a good time to invest my annual glasses allowance for a pair of prescription sunglasses. 

Since I had such a good experience with Warby Parker last year, I headed over to the store again to ask about new shades.  Now last year I was in and out of the store so fast that I barely had time to even look around (except when I was actually looking at the various glasses styles and even that didn’t take me too long).  This year the store was hopping; I ended up waiting about 20 minutes after I checked in so I had a chance to take the place in.

First off, there are books above each alcove of frames… real titles but the spines are all monochromatic (all white over one alcove, all blue over another, etc.) so I’m guessing they are probably not the actual books.  I could be wrong but I doubt it.  Then I noticed their 100 word “all about us” statement printed on the wall.  Each word is numbered.  The funniest things were books of haiku on shelves under each alcove titled  “Baby Pigeons”.  Apparently at WPHQ they write haiku.  They have them on the walls, in emails and in various correspondence and collected in a book.  Here is the haiku that inspired the title of the book:

How come you never

See baby pigeons? I asked

“What?” said the dentist.

I also liked this one:

finish lip balm tube
rather than just losing it?
honor this moment

I didn’t ask if the books were for sale but I liked that WP apparently doesn’t take themselves too seriously.  It did inspire me to write a haiku of my own on the way home:

Picking new glasses

Without “help” from my daughter…

I get what I want!

Any haiku thoughts this week?

27 thoughts on “Pigeon Poetry”

  4. I think I read somewhere that classical haiku always references a season.

    This is the season
    Of alarming developments
    When will there be sun?

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  7. Rise and Shine Baboons,

    Sleep is disrupted,
    Louis’s CPAP malfunctions
    Me? irritable!

    Our national soup
    Leaves me dispeptic, scared
    In God we Trust? Help!

    I am tired, crabby
    and anxious. Ruminating
    What will happen next?

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    2. he built the theater at loyola that my daughter studied in performed on the stage of enjoyed
      it is gorgeous
      i will always associate it with him

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  12. Tried to do this in haiku, but brain is fried. Had stabbing pain in left eye around 1:00. Left has bad optic nerve. Everything is darker. Spent two hours with eye dr. She wants to see if it will recover on its own. Has before with passing episodes. Oddly I can see at close range very clearly. Was high stress morning so I suppose . . .

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