Vainglorious
The issue of our lives,
you see—they’re just invention.
Nothing’s real but life
itself; the rest is fiction.
Some are better story-
tellers, start at once
upon a time and go.
And some will wait in vain
for greater truths to show.
~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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