Just finished writing 10 haikus for Miss Kitty Landers. Next Wednesday will be the last "Fortune of the Week" for a while, and I need to come up with a new production model to release content this summer. I absolutely love the 8mm app on my i-phone and figure I can a ton of quick "Kitty Ditties" as a self-tape. I'm just not 100% on the context of why these little poems or confessions should be happening. Will keep brainstorming. Whatever I do, I want them to be easy to record -- it will give me more flexibility to come up with topical content on the fly.
All the haikus are about summertime. I tried to think back to those days of yore, between school letting out sometime in June and the first day back when planning your outfit took a week. Summertime FEELS different in LA than on the East Coast. Since there's less contrast, it's just not as dramatic a shift. Not as humid, either. I love that humidity. And the sound of cicadas at night.
1.
Ice Cream Truck is close
Sno Cones, Orange Creamsickles…
I have nine quarters!
2.
Days are longer now
Sleepover on a Weekday!
Pizza and popcorn.
3.
It smells really good…
BBQ across the street
Time for my red shorts!
4.
Found a rusty key
At the bottom of the pool
Maybe it’s magic.
5.
Let’s play kick the can!
I’m really good at hiding…
Please don't pick me last.
6.
Swam out to the dock
You dared me to feel beneath...
Slimy fish egg spheres!
7.
Running in flip-flops
Uneven sidewalk from roots
Man I stubbed my toe!
8.
Sounds of shuffleboard
and tennis balls being hit
Drooly nap on towel.
9.
Adult swim again
One old lady doing laps
Can I have some Nerds?
10.
Child of the 80’s
Slip n Slide on muddy grass...
friendship bracelet string.
