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<\/p>\nSylvia got some of our friends and family to write haikus for my 65th birthday. Here are most of them, along with some random photos from the last few weeks. Cake-cutting photo by Emilio Rojas.<\/p>\n
I think I’m going to take most of April off from blogging and tweeting. If you get bored with waiting for new posts, maybe add some haikus of your own as comments here! Any topic is okay, they don’t have to be about me or my birthday. Happy spring!<\/p>\n
By the way, what is a haiku exactly? Well, there’s a precise Japanese formula, but in English it’s a little vague. Generally you’re talking about a three-line poem with seventeen or so syllables, distributed in a pattern of 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables. But the rules aren’t crucial, you can have plus or minus a syllable or two here or there. It’s all about the twist, the insight, the zap, the aha.<\/p>\n
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Rudy paints the sea Hey babe let\u2019s go out tonight on a 4 D trip Odd cephalopod We miss Rudy\u2019s bash chicken chicken chick Live long and prosper O legendary He likes to meld (a lot!) Wielding his brush and pen The fog lifts. Morning! A violin plays new piles of spam Photographer extraordinaire sixty-five, a number, Floods, landslides, tsunamis reign Gnarly nature flows Hot damn, it\u2019s overflowing Rudy pleasure birthday frogs croak and rumble I’m in Mendocino with Nancy on a little vacation. Sylvia got some of our friends and family to write haikus for my 65th birthday. Here are most of them, along with some random photos from the last few weeks. Cake-cutting photo by Emilio Rojas. I think I’m going to take most of April off from blogging and tweeting. If you get bored with waiting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3126,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions\/3126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA giant mutant lobster
\nShooting laser beams
\n \u2014Vernon Head<\/em><\/p>\n
\nUnder the full moon
\nIt\u2019s raining cherry blossoms
\n \u2014Sylvia Rucker<\/em><\/p>\n
\no life is a flabber gas
\nwave on ye old tree
\n \u2014Georgia Rucker<\/em><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images3\/311glasscuttle.jpg\")
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\nAlien contacts on Earth
\nRudy knew it first
\n \t\u2014Penny Thomas<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMany friends brave winter storm
\nLet them eat cake, yes!
\n \u2014R.U. Sirius and Eve<\/em><\/p>\n
\nchicken chicken chicken chick
\nchicken chicken hen
\n \t\u2014Rudy Rucker, Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images3\/311seanettles.jpg\")
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\nAnother trip \u201d\u02dcround the sun
\nSpring day, snowy hair
\n \t\u2014Nathaniel Hellerstein<\/em><\/p>\n
\nSF dude, scroll down, log off.
\nYoung pups scratch at door.
\n \t\u2014Terry Bisson<\/em><\/p>\n
\nin the Grand Garden of hot
\nHeliogenic Breath
\n \u2014Henny Nijland<\/em><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images3\/sfinsfjan15_2011.jpg\")
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\nthe silver-haired patriarch
\nportrays strange worlds.
\n \u2014Michael Beeson<\/em><\/p>\n
\nRudy gazes out away,
\nTwinkling at the door.
\n \u2014Hilary Gordon<\/em><\/p>\n
\nCelebrate, dance and jig
\nThe family circles
\n \u2014Courtney Lasseter<\/em><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images3\/311rainelbow.jpg\")
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\nturn to a pineapple ham
\nreal life always sweet
\n \u2014Georgia Rucker<\/em><\/p>\n
\nTo you
\nHeureux Anniversaire
\n \u2014Zan Thomas<\/em><\/p>\n
\nnothing more:
\nand, to be quite clear,
\nnothing less
\n \u2014Frank Thomas<\/em><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images3\/311seahorse.jpg\")
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\nWater abounding
\nOne diamond drop, hovering
\n \u2014Helen Han<\/em><\/p>\n
\nGnarly writer wiser grows
\nRudy 65, wow!
\n \u2014Emilio Rojas<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMarch waterfall
\nGnarly and pseudorandom
\n \u2014Sylvia Rucker<\/em><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images3\/311greentuft.jpg\")
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\nNumber of rational
\nNo, number of real!
\n \u2014Nick Herbert<\/em><\/p>\n
\nrudy rucker ruminating
\nstochastic flesh is love
\n \u2014Michael Blumlein<\/em><\/p>\n
\nI’m sorry I couldn’t make it to your party.
\n(Wait, how many syllables is that?)
\n \u2014Jon Pearce<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"