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Monorail Haiku

December 30, 2005 on 3:26 pm | In General Nonsense |

Yesterday I was collecting wheelchairs on express load as usual. When I do, I remove the yellow nametag from the back pouch and use the paper to fold up little origami flapping birds. It’s the only thing I know how to make. I made a few of them and as I finished, I put each one up on the fire box near greeter. Kids usually pick them up and play with them.

One was blown off by a gust of wind in front of a little girl and she picked it up off the floor. She walked along, showing it to her parents, and then threw it away in the trash can up near car 2. Nice, huh? I said to Glen, “There’s a poem in there somewhere.”

A few minutes later, he supplies this gem: (Glen, correct me if I got it wrong)

fallen to the floor
a girl picks me up—with hope
and throws me away

It’s funny just how appropriate that is.

I told him about when I worked at Speedway, how I would stand out at Bridge and write haiku. (There wasn’t much to do out there unless something broke down… and we had paper and pen for doing car counts). He fired off a few more. Hopefully he’ll post them as comments, I can’t remember them all. Here’s mine:

“stand clear of the doors”
it closes on their stroller
why are they surprised?

If I can find any of the old Speedway Haiku, I’ll post them here. They were originally put on ProteinSpill years ago but that database seems to have been lost in one of the moves.