Haikus

Note: This is an assortment of haikus written by Grady McMurtry in 1964-1966

Smoky the Bear contemplating
Sounds of tourists departing:
A pile of tin cans in a high wind.
(Japan Air Lines 1964 National  Radio Haiku Contest Selection)

Originally published in Thelema Lodge Calendar, June 1989 and December 2002

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Note: The following haikus were originally published in Thelema Lodge Calendar, December 2002

Runnel toothed pelvic tree root
Carved by the strontium enriched rain drop
Happiness is a Mickeymouse Civilization!
(10-24-64 / 1)

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New car showroom blare lights
Shiny little pieces of God shimmer, glimmer
Tinsel I love to touch
(10-24-64 / 2)

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Department store Santa canned laughter
Ho! Ho! Ho! echoes the parking lot!
America’s great big mechanical heart.
(10-25-64)

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Mutant, the wild sport species
Glowing by night in the suburb
Strontium 90, I love you!
(10-26-64)

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Dinosaur state of Hobbes’ choice
Shining in your armor plate waste land
Rust and Fall rains cometh
(12-22-64 / 1)

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Android tech in space drift
Dead in the milling asteroids
What now, Deux Ex Programmer?
(12-22-64 / 2)

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Painless Cartesian automata
Replacing your spare parts from the freezer
A wonderful world is Cyborgia!
(12-22-64 / 3)

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Procrusted Red “Wall”
Bloodied chopping block logic
Back to the tree-tops!
(1-1-65)

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Anubic New Moon
Guiding our steps in Night World
Who is holding your hand?
(1-11-65)

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“Springtime” on Phobos:
On bright-side of far Home World
Are the healing woods.
(1-16-65)

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Alienation
Cold! the desiccated heart
Back to the pack, Jack
(2-11-65)

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Up! Out! Astronaut!
Down, Fall firefly, on failed wings
Burning, offering
(2-16-65)

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Drop! Imperial
Space Marine! Your valor mocks
The carrion flesh
(2-17-65 / 1)

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Virgins of the Queen
Holy Order of Dead Men
Blaze! Magian Star!
(2-17-65 / 2)

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Maid of the Star Drifts
Magian hieroglyphs
In your “Cave of Space!”
(2-18-65)

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Leap, Holy Dead Man!
In the clasp of Our Maiden
Shines the Star-Son “child!”
(2-22-65 / 1)

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Drop! Imperial
Space Marine. Your Gothic soul
Your Heart’s dread desire
(2-22-65 / 2)

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Explode! drained “White Lamb.”
See! Glowing in Her Fire-Grail
Your transforming Blood!
(2-23-65)

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Love is one person
Male-Female symbiosis
In the goblin night
(May 10, 1965)

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Sporting, cavorting
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
Sad-eyed, the clown types
(7-15-65)

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Cold and silence. Share
My star-light continuum
With the rocks and trees.
(Atu 12, The Hanged Man) (7-21-65)

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Barbaric nonthink
Intellectual wasteland
Catbox the Tiger
(10-13-65)

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Faith of our fathers:
Vigilante beheading
As spectator sport
(10-13-65 / 2 — 1140 hrs)

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Rivers of dry leaves
Rushed by cold wind
Rustle for summer rain
(11-18-65 / 2 — 1005)

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Cruelty becomes
Your implacable justice
Immortal youth-gods
(April 7, 1966 /0930 hrs)