Might make you feel good . . .

[smittythewelder]

Oh, I know, Wayne, and knew it when I wrote the letters. I actually spent a year in the School of Communications, Editorial Journalism, at the U of Washington when I first got there in the Sixties (so my dissing of Journalism grads, though excessive, has some small basis in personal experience). My hope was that the two writers, and maybe others in the Sports department, would read the letters, and I didn't care that they wouldn't get into print.

Writing a really good SHORT letter or essay is HARD, and in fact readers of newspapers and news magazines should at least appreciate the space and time restrictions under which journalists and their editors labor. It's easy for us to express opinions or report things on a site like this; reporting and writing for publication in a big city paper is a whole 'nother thing. As with every kind of paying work I've heard of, down to the lowliest entry-level jobs, there's always a lot more to it than an outsider would guess. My gripes with the two sports opinionators at the paper had nothing to do with their professionalism; both were good writers.

[smittythewelder]

I'm really not trying to do a political thread here, Paul.

Thanks,
--Smitty

[Ketzer]

That's right. It's a literary thread. I'll do my part; here's a haiku:

Civilization,
come here, old friend, and look, see
your psychotic child.

[Original Looper 1]

Oh my, old Mother of life'
the political reality of some is the living father of all,
Literality !

Respectfully
Ours.

[Ketzer]

Or more to the point:

The red Marchetti
Hits a wake and rises
To pirouette like a ballerina
(splash).

[Master Oil Racing Team]

I don't know Haiku Steve, but I remember some Zen I read on the way to DeLake in 1972. "The moon at the window....the thief left it behind". So now I will try my version of Zen/Haiku.

Normal was
A field of loopers
two men in a boat water flying all around
why did I not pay more attention
(why do my senses miss noise and smell)

So now one for the original thread.

Socialist media
pretended to hear
now that we know
They're irrational with fear
now dreaming
they make up they news
They want

[Ketzer]

'Yer a natural, Wayne, and you just created a new style: Texas Haiku. But back to the Indy 500.