Feral Cat

[Volaticus]

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I use a pencil.

Then I have to compromise...

So cool guys in Germany,

and hot dames in Denmark

can realize me.

When I'm drunk...


When I'm not drunk...

I mind my own business.


Except when my nondrunk girls come to survey my nondrunk habits.


We're not in the "For Fun" section are we?

I knew, dammit, something was wrong...before I even clicked on this.

I have to admit that I didn't get all of it. Are you drunk right now? You're right about the guys and dames, though.

[rowens]

If you don't want me to be drunk right now, I'll change my story.

But if you ever end up physically in my presence...no matter how often I change my story, I'll still be drunk...concretely.

I had a feral cat once. He got ran over, concretely, and died.

I don't care much for concrete reality.

It takes no prisoners.

[Volaticus]

Doesn't work with Chrome unfortunately. I only use firefox when I want to look up quickly some Hanzi or Kanji


I don't need it for Danish. ;-)

(a beautiful language btw and another one I can NOT speak.)
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Dammit. ;-)
I must remember that, if I ever need those languages.
And thanks :-) I don't know if I agree or disagree, because I've grown up with the language. So it's just kind of there. If that makes sense.
I like German. It can be really harsh, but also really beautiful, depending on the context. I think most of the music I listen to is German actually.

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If you don't want me to be drunk right now, I'll change my story.

But if you ever end up physically in my presence...no matter how often I change my story, I'll still be drunk...concretely.

I had a feral cat once. He got ran over, concretely, and died.

I don't care much for concrete reality.

It takes no prisoners.

No need to :-)
I'm sorry about the cat, I also had one once, that was run over by a car.
Concrete reality can really be shite sometimes.

[rowens]

I had a girl that told me she was a cat,
that she only looked like a woman
because she was a goddess
named Bast.

And concrete reality would have got me nowhere in that situation.

She's the one that gave me the cat.

She found him at a garbage landfill.

He was wild.
But I loved him.

I still do.

Concrete reality allows no solace there.

[Brownlie]

I had a girl that told me she was a cat,
that she only looked like a woman
because she was a goddess
named Bast.

And concrete reality would have got me nowhere in that situation.

She's the one that gave me the cat.

She found him at a garbage landfill.

He was wild.
But I loved him.

I still do.

Concrete reality allows no solace there.

Sorry to digress from the haiku I'll comment on that in a second She's the one that gave me the cat.

She found him at a garbage landfill.

That detail about where she found the cat was incredibly cool...

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Matted, muddy tufts
Eyes piercing glass
I set my door ajar

This is only my fourth haiku. I'd love to know what you think, good or bad.

I feel eyes piercing glass is vague... Sticking with descriptions of the cat may work better than describing actions of the narrator. I don't know anything about haiku though...

[rowens]

Well maybe for you.

And Vol, and Serge;

it was cool.

But between me and us...

She was extremely hot.

[Volaticus]

I had a girl that told me she was a cat,
that she only looked like a woman
because she was a goddess
named Bast.

And concrete reality would have got me nowhere in that situation.

She's the one that gave me the cat.

She found him at a garbage landfill.

He was wild.
But I loved him.

I still do.

Concrete reality allows no solace there.

It definitely doesn't allow any solace.
I just love it when people care about (feral) animals. But it's tough when they aren't there anymore.

[rowens]

I'm a feral animal...

technically.

[Volaticus]

I feel eyes piercing glass is vague... Sticking with descriptions of the cat may work better than describing actions of the narrator. I don't know anything about haiku though...

Thank you for commenting, but I have to disagree. For me it is everything but vague, the image of a matted cat with a begging stare, looking at you from the cold outside.
The actions of the narrator is only in the last line, which is needed, since my point with the poem was compassion.

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I'm a feral animal...

technically.

That's also how I see myself. A lot.

[rowens]

I find civilized life repellent.

[Volaticus]

I find civilized life repellent.

It is repellent. Never lived that way, never will.

[rowens]

That's good to hear.

Maybe you should get that plane ticket after all.

And I'll get a haircut.

[serge gurkski]

Doesn't work with Chrome unfortunately. I only use firefox when I want to look up quickly some Hanzi or Kanji


I don't need it for Danish. ;-)

(a beautiful language btw and another one I can NOT speak.)
.

Dammit. ;-)
I must remember that, if I ever need those languages.
And thanks :-) I don't know if I agree or disagree, because I've grown up with the language. So it's just kind of there. If that makes sense.
I like German. It can be really harsh, but also really beautiful, depending on the context. I think most of the music I listen to is German actually.

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If you don't want me to be drunk right now, I'll change my story.

But if you ever end up physically in my presence...no matter how often I change my story, I'll still be drunk...concretely.

I had a feral cat once. He got ran over, concretely, and died.

I don't care much for concrete reality.

It takes no prisoners.

No need to :-)
I'm sorry about the cat, I also had one once, that was run over by a car.
Concrete reality can really be shite sometimes.

My ears inform me so that Danish is not so much spoken but sung instead. I only once had contact ( via phone) with a Danish coworker, the representative of our company for Scandinavia. So guess what: he sang his English with a very Jazzy Danish accent. Well, I always enjoyed mightily listening to him. I hope, he felt the same. ;-)
Better than Marx Brothers interpreted into Monty Pythonish.
Ok, we hardly understood each other voicewise. but there is e-mail. E-mail saved both our jobs I think.

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Louise wrote to me: "Dammit. ;-)
I must remember that, if I ever need those languages."

to which I can only reply by way of quoting Chuck Berry to her: "You never can tell... "

[Volaticus]

I hope I can hear such accent sometime. Singing English with a jazzy Danish accent. How can that not be enjoyable ;-)

[serge gurkski]

I hope I can hear such accent sometime. Singing English with a jazzy Danish accent. How can that not be enjoyable ;-)

esp for people who dig both Jazz and tonal languages (Danish comes pretty close to one)

[Volaticus]

esp for people who dig both Jazz and tonal languages (Danish comes pretty close to one)

I dig that too :-)

[serge gurkski]

esp for people who dig both Jazz and tonal languages (Danish comes pretty close to one)

I dig that too :-)

Und welche Ton-Sprachen im Besonderen? Register languages or contour tone languages?

[Volaticus]

Und welche Ton-Sprachen im Besonderen? Register languages or contour tone languages?

Ich bin nicht sicher welche sprache ist ton-sprachen. Aber ich mag viele die asiatische sprache, und einige afrikanisches sprache.
Did that make any sense, whatsoever? Damn, my German is bad ,-)

[billy]

well done. i think it needs a seasonal word to make it haiku but it's a decent senryu. great for a fourth attempt

[Volaticus]

well done. i think it needs a seasonal word to make it haiku but it's a decent senryu. great for a fourth attempt

Thank you very much, billy