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    What is Bobby Shaftoe's first Haiku poem, and what is he doing during its composition?

    Question #123140. Asked by houston1127. (Aug 18 11 10:24 PM)


    star_gazer

    		Two tires fly. Two wail.
    A bamboo grove, all chopped down
    From it, warring songs

    He wrote this haiku "standing on the running board [of a truck teetering on two wheels], gripping his Springfield with one hand and the rearview mirror with the other...

    http://no-sword.jp/blog/2010/09/shaftoe_s_haiku.html


    Aug 19 11, 12:46 AM
    houston1127

    		This is the poem I was thinking of, but I made a mistake. It wasn't Shaftoe's first Haiku. It was the first Haiku mentioned during the novel Cryptonomicon, but Shaftoe's first Haiku was chronologically earlier--an adaption of the Marine Creed:

    This is my rifle
    There are many like it but
    This rifle is mine.

    Aug 19 11, 1:24 AM

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