Today is New York City’s annual "Poem in Your Pocket" Day, in which New Yorkers carry around a favorite poem to share with friends. Even Mayor Bloomberg wrote a poem! Unfortunately I’m not in New York at the moment, but I figured this blog was the rough equivalent of my pocket, and so I’ve created some haikus, just for the occasion.
Pocket full of words
Unironic form of speech
I will play along
This reminded me of grad school, when I used to sit in philosophy class and dream of ways to make the concepts more amusing. Sometimes I drew cartoons of, say, Noam Chomsky vs. Jacques Derrida in an epic battle of intentional obfuscation, and I can’t BELIEVE that no one ever made trading cards out of these ideas. Sometimes, I wrote haikus, none of which I could find today, but this inspired me to re-visit the themes and write some new ones,. I think they’re funny, but they’re really only going to make three people who read this blog laugh. And if you’re one of those three people, hold on to your hat!
Heidegger on life
Hermeneutics factical
Historicity
Derrida’s problem
Structure has a genesis
Already structured
Structure sign and play
Chain of determination
Where is the centre
Ah, I could amuse myself like this all day, which is probably why I only did the Master’s degree and not the PhD. Also, this reminded me of one of my favorite sites, which is totally dedicated to Haikus about SPAM (the lunchmeat, not the unwanted email. The SPAM-ku archive lives here, and you can even submit one of your own. Please feel free to post your favorite poetry (or write some of your own) in the comments!