FROM: Mouse of Zen Monday Published Mondays
Disney Parade Haiku #1
Parades draw crowds, and in the perverse calculus of vacations, crowds draw rain. Maybe it's the heat rising from all those packed bodies that seeds the clouds. Whatever it is, JB Conway doesn't let anything rain on his parade.
The haiku theme for this month is the jammin' July. And what jams more than a Disney parade? Through haiku, we'll step off the curb and march along with the magic.
You've staked a super spot.
You wait for the first float, the first character, excited by the fantastic photo opportunities, and then you feel it.
A tingle of excitement? No. A droplet of rain.
The parade is about to start. And it's raining. It's raining on Mickey's parade, and it's raining on your parade, too.
JB Conway calls these afternoon showers stunning; as you struggle to slip into your plastic poncho, you'll call them soaking.
Then, as you realize that the parade is on its way, and as the sun peeks from behind the clouds, you shrug and admit that maybe stunning wasn't such a stretch after all.
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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