Shallow Thought Wednesday
Every Tuesday late into the night and then very early Wednesday I check my work e-mail over and over again to see if Multmedia Editor and Resident Cheeseburger, Wing, Crab Ball and Tiramisu Expert John Lindner has sent me a Shallow Thought.
This morning I was saddened by this brief e-mail:
Reason I didn't post a timely shallow thought: Slept all night on left side, woke up with only right brain functionality.To make up for it, I'll force myself to compose a food haiku.
Well, folks, it was worth the wait. John came up with the following brilliant effort.
Your contribution to this Shallow Thought Wednesday can be:
a) Discuss the evocative allusions and underlying meaning(s) of John's haiku; or
b) See if you can top it with your own food haiku.
Just as a reminder, a haiku is a Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
Here's John's: ...
Sipping beaujolais
my cheeseburger has vanished
Waiter! Creme brulee!
Comments
...in a funk again
a cool sauvignon will work
i laugh at the world...
Posted by: dave the suave | July 2, 2008 11:20 AM
My friend hmpstd and I really need to get lives. Within 20 minutes of each other we posted about the lack of a shallow thought. And then, faster than I could hit the refresh button there it was.
My plate is full
A shallow thought has surfaced
It is rare indeed
Posted by: Robert (the Single One) | July 2, 2008 11:40 AM
That's what happens when you let the rich guy in the A-1 commercial "borrow" your burger....
Posted by: theminx | July 2, 2008 12:34 PM
I am trying to envision the restaurant where one might be sipping beaujolais, presumably eating on a cheeseburger (prior to it vanishing), then being able to order a creme brulee. Must be a Gastro Pub.
In Gastro Pub lounge,
One can see variety
to tempt the palate.
Posted by: Mr. Old Fart | July 2, 2008 12:40 PM
Jenny Criag diet
I long for you cheeseburger
Damn you thunder thighs!
Posted by: ihearthaiku | July 2, 2008 1:20 PM
hamburglar returns!
"robble, robble" he says, as
he escapes capture!
Posted by: The Sauce Monster | July 2, 2008 1:37 PM
chocolate is good food
even better when it's dark
men can't understand
Posted by: Susan WNAJ | July 2, 2008 4:24 PM
Clearly the poet is mourning the fact that his current effete lifestyle (symbolized by the beaujolais) has taken him away from his working-class and more authentic roots (the vanished cheeseburger) so that his only solace is the sybaritic but shallow, trivial and trite (that menu cliche, creme brulee).
Posted by: gosseyn | July 2, 2008 5:15 PM
I ran across this many, many...uh, many...years ago when I was an English major (before I became a history major, then a business major) and for reasons I'll never understand I still remember it today.
(It's isn't a food haiku, but I thought that you, EL, and John, being professional journalists who have, presumably, been checked out by the safety officer and cleared to use all 14 punctuation marks, might like it.)
The Traditional Grammarian As Poet:
You ku, I ku, he
She or it kus. We ku, you
Ku, they ku. Thank ku.
Posted by: Bucky | July 2, 2008 6:45 PM
Yes, I screwed it up. The first line should be, "I ku, you ku, he" .
Posted by: Bucky | July 2, 2008 8:50 PM
Crab week is over?
Shells scattered around the beer
Humidity weeps.
Into the freezer
Frozen vegetables fall
No ice cream hides there.
Haiku in English?
The Japanese laugh wildly
We eat our sad shame.
I should stop now
Language challenges mock me
Brain fights scary age.
Posted by: Lissa | July 2, 2008 9:55 PM
There was an old man from Nantucket
oops sorry I read the wrong meter
Posted by: Hue | July 3, 2008 8:01 AM
Wrote this long ago after a night out eating bar food and drinking:
Cosmopolitans
Loaded fries and nachos too
Now I must work out.
Posted by: B'More Cat Lover | July 3, 2008 9:57 AM
Impressive.
Next week, food sonnets.
Posted by: jl | July 3, 2008 11:15 AM
I vote for villanells next
Posted by: Hue | July 4, 2008 12:11 PM
Hue you mean villanelles
but you have to love them
Rage, rage against the dying of the light...
Posted by: LJ | July 4, 2008 1:06 PM