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A haiku is a highly structured poetic snippet consisting of three short phrases that together should trigger an image in your mind. You won't find haikus at Disney. You will find haikus about Disney every Monday on the Disney Dispatch written by JB Conway, author of the well-regarded book, Mouse of Zen, which of course is full of Disney haikus. What better way to step into your Disney week!

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FROM: Mouse of Zen Monday Published Mondays

Haunted Mansion Haiku

Where better to experience moonlight than the Haunted Mansion. Or where worse? If we're able to evade the ghosts spiffing up their moontans, we'll follow the beams up, up to the attic, where our bride awaits, heart beating, axe... swinging?

The haiku theme for this month is the moons of June. We'll visit the Haunted Mansion, Port Orleans, the Japan Pavilion, and the Astro Orbiter. By moonlight.

"Foolish mortals!"

When spoken by Paul Frees, it's one of the scariest things you'll hear strapped into a Doom Buggy and helpless as you glide through the Haunted Mansion.

"Take a leap of faith," JB Conway writes. The Bride had faith. And where did it get here?

You'll see where it got here, if your eyes are not squeezed shut, and you'll hear it, too.

The beat beat beat of her heart.

JB Conway packs all that into a poem.

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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