Morning haiku

Yeah, fuck you too, jerk
Where’d you learn to drive, asshole?
The crescent moon smiles

Otherwise, whatever. There was something I’d been meaning to say but then Heath Ledger, who lives in my lower back now, told me to take another muscle relaxant so I forgot.

It was something clever.

Yesterday I was sitting on the living room floor, meditating after doing a little yoga for the back, very carefully. I realized I was wearing a tie-dye t-shirt. All I need is a gray ponytail now, I thought.

Gamma was supposed to make a purse at school, in her sewing class, but failed utterly and was downcast. Her next project was to make a t-shirt, so we spent the weekend tie-dying t-shirts.

Her assignment was to design a shirt and make it. I suggested making the shirt first, then making a design that looked like the shirt, because harder to go wrong that way.

Her shirt turned out really cool. She wanted diagonal stripes, and she GOT DIAGONAL STRIPES! It was the first time either of us had ever tie-dyed, and it totally turned out.

Mine didn’t turn out so well. The spiral was a spiral, and the other pattern was right too, but I was too impatient with the dye and didn’t squirt on enough, so there’s too much white IMO. But it’s good to know how the patterns work.

Maybe we’ll start a t-shirt company. We could make sand candles too. Or macrame.

10 responses to “Morning haiku

  1. joeri

    Now my mental image of you has become that of The Big Lebowski :) Thanks a million, dude…

  2. mig

    Don’t mention it, dude…

  3. flerdle

    They’d go well with the orange fisherman’s pants I made the other day. Sweeeet.

  4. k

    o, my. i love this.

  5. Meagan

    Nice haiku! I’m not a fan of poetry in any of its forms, but I actually liked your haiku… :)

    And we used to make an awful lot of tie-dye. I, too, understand the heartbreak of a shirt with far too much white in it. I also understand the heartbreak of shirts that turn out brown because all the colors of dye have run together.

  6. mig

    The narrow road between white and brown is the path to tie-dye satori, dude.

  7. beta

    i’m wearing one of those shirts you made right now…

  8. lauren

    I love your haiku.
    I’m going to print it out & keep a copy in my car… never know when it may come in handy :)