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Haiku: Epcot April #3
If you're like me, the first thing that comes to mind on a Monday morning is beer, German beer, the kind sold in the German pavilion at Epcot. Coupling German beer with haiku is brilliant, especially when the purpose of the haiku is not simply German beer.
The haiku theme for this month is Epcot April. Each week, JB Conway will evoke Epcot in haiku. Maybe it's a ride. Maybe a building. Maybe it's a scent or a sound. Whatever it is, JB's haiku will conjure it in your mind and make it real again.
The first line of this haiku will stay with you, much like an actual tattoo.
The scene, of course, plays out in the German pavilion, and JB deftly combines the ephemeral with the earthy, the intimate touch of a woman's hand with a great big plastic cup of German beer.
As a fan of both, I am equally a fan of this.
By the way, if you haven't bought JB's book, Mouse of Zen, and yet you come here each week to read his haikus, why do you torture yourself? Are you a masochist? (Or maybe a mouseochist?) Don't you know you can get all the haikus at once? In the book!
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