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Disney Parade Haiku #3
You wanna stay for the parade? Those words probably are some of the most frequently spoken by guests in the Magic Kingdom toward dusk. And most of them do stay for the Main Street Electrical Parade. As did JB Conway, one night not so long ago.
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.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that they were going to Disney for the parades.
But nearly everyone returns from Disney with wonderful memories of the... parades.
One parade, in particular: the Main Street Electrical Parade. First held in 1977, then benched in 1991 prior to a comeback in 1999, and then benched once more in 2001 prior to another comeback in 2010, this nightly Magic Kingdom parade features classic Disney characters and kicks off to the words we impatiently wait to hear:
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! The Magic Kingdom proudly presents our spectacular festival pageant of nighttime magic and imagination. In thousands of sparkling lights, and electro-synthe-magnetic musical sounds: the Main Street Electrical Parade!"
JB Conway's haiku doesn't need so many words to convey the eseence of this magical parade. He finds it in the sparkling lights that reflect from the wide-eyed faces of children standing on the sidewalks of Main Street as the parade slowly passes them by.
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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