Monday, February 20, 2012

Haiku for The Oldie

Haikus are tonics,

linguistic Sanatogen

for every Oldie.

Writer's block. 16.04.2008

Source: BBC Radio 4

The Today programme, on Radio 4 discussed the phenomenon of writer's block with two fellow sufferers, one of whom was the former Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion.


Andrew's having a

hard time, sitting on his stool

waiting for motion.

Caterpillar pupates 16.02.2012.

Source The Times:


Operatives at the Caterpillar locomotive factory in London, Ontario have decided tocall for a boycott of the plant's products after the firm demanded that they take a 50% wage cut.

Earlier this month, the company closed the Electro Motive Diesel plant and sacked 665 workmen. Caterpillar workboots are also being boycotted.

Caterpillar vehicles are regularly seen gouging out land and mowing down trees and shrubs for development or mining all over the world. This will not dent their rapacious dirty business. Their largest vehicles are used to raze and run over Palestinian land, olive trees, houses, sometimes people in the service of Israeli settlers, the Israeli Defence Force etc.,



Caterpillar crawls all over

workforce, makes tracks

to Indiana.



Caterpillar, when

not chewing up Palestine

pupates, devours plant.



Caterpillar stamps on

Mother Earth, tramps on, boots out

unhappy workers.