All That Money Wants: Haiku for You

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Haiku gets my creative juices flowing. A fan of short and sweet, the form takes me off the hook of writing past the point where I wonder whether the reader loses interest. 5.7.5 is safe. Reflecting on nature is a traditional theme in Haiku, and I try whenever I can to get a little bit of the green stuff in there. A great book for guidelines is described here. Without further ado, words about wealth.

Color of envy
I watch a grasshopper land
wealth beyond measure

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I once saw a coin
copper instead of silver
semantics of wealth

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A garden of wealth
can be a field of flowers
or a crown of thorns

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“I Don’t Live Right”

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We found this on Meanjin online and originally came across this in print in the New Yorker some many moons ago. Can’t help but choke up on that last line. There is something about communication in the purest sense of the word that just gets us every time.

 

Dear Philip Roth:

Manuscripts around here shift and wander in huge piles, like the dunes. Yours turned up today, and I apologize to you for my disorder. It hurts me more. … My reaction to your story (“Expect the Vandals”) was on the positive side of the scale, strongly. … A great idea, but palpably Idea. I have a thing about Ideas in stories. Camus’s “The Plague” was an IDEA. Good or bad? Not so hot, in my opinion. With you the Idea gains ground fast, easily. It conquers. What of Moe?

Look, try Henry Volkening at 522 Fifth Ave. My agent. A very good one, too. Best of luck. And forgive my having the mss. so long. I should have read it at once. But I don’t live right.

Yrs,

Saul Bellow

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