I have completed the layout of the Ritz packaging line. This is a complicated process which takes a semi regular scattering of crackers and gathers them into the wrapped columns that are found in each box, and then the boxes are gathered into cases and wrapped for shipping. This process takes several machines and quite a bit of floor space used carefully to allow for the interactions of humans with machines that are required at certain critical points. I didn't really have the long and skinny space that works best, and so I had to shoehorn stuff in. I think it is a credible layout. I am a worker bee.
Nine Bee Lines
It's hexagonal,
A six sided agony
Of plan and effort.
Life in the flight path
Makes my wing muscles sting, ache
With the heat of work.
I am not suited
For the apian disguise.
I am too heavy.
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Back in 1966 the guy who got me high on acid the first time strongly suggested to me that Taoism was important to the likes of me. He was right, but what was more right was one of the ancient Chinese classics, I Ching. I actually parlayed my intensive study of I Ching into part of my college degree. I established that this Chinese classic presented a metaphysical system as well as a psychological one and as such was a legitimate college level study. This worked and contributed to my getting the degree. The next poem works with a Taoist image.
Centrist
I'm wound up, spiral
Incarnate, stripped of foggy
Central illusions.
The old master said
The wheel's main utility
Is the axle hole.
I look within me
Past the swoop of spiral shape -
Holy Nobody,
Or Everyone,
All wondrous life appearing.
All are shining holes.
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So you see how Haiku can be played with and turned into another poetic form. I am using Haiku structure, but these poems are not Haiku.
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It's a good thing he mentioned Taoism when he slipped you that tab of Owsley's finest, because if he had shown you this, you'd still be staring at it.
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