Asleep
The dream climbs higher daily,
reaching altitudes
no one has ever gained:
tuition, mortgages,
insurance, entertainment
systems of religious
body politics
erotic war. No wonder
we’re afraid of waking.
~Son Rivers 2006
BEFORE AND AFTER
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Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) wrote two rather similar yet effective autumn
verses. Though he would have called them “haiku” because of his revisionist
tendenc...
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