23 November 1999
William Gillespie

jesse ventura today reached osaka
- a recursive haicoup

japan exports haiku. prophet basho
would compose haiku without words, writing light,
sound, writing smell, writing touch,
taste. feeling image, drawing human despair, humor.
pages cascade, white jonquil birds.

tokyo raining light, drizzle misty.
giant banners, piano, massive stone majesty.
young freedom would prevail today.
paper folding petal blossom white origami poems
float outside their singing image
grace, empress poise, honoring tears, honoring jokes
great history dream writing years.

world tourism, haiku, nuclear power
awake, huddled rainy golfers, awake, breathe light
dance through urban subways happy
smile without prior written paper consent today
white flowers cause traffic chaos