Haiku 101, Intellectual Property Haiku (IP Haiku)

I've written thousands of haiku.  It all started one morning in Pittsburgh.  I woke from the strangest dream.  In my dream, I tried to convince people I was a composer (I was and am a composer) but they wouldn't listen.  They found a poetry journal from Australia and in the journal were haiku I had written.  They told me I was an INTERNATIONALLY PUBLISHED POET who specialized in haiku.  I told them I was a composer, not a poet, but I couldn't convince them of this.  Strangely, after I awoke, I laughed at this bizarre dream but then started to research haiku.I found out that the most common form of haiku was a three-line poem consisting of 17 syllables.  And there was a nice symmetry to the structure.  The first line consisted of 5 syllables, the second had 7 syllables and the third had 5 syllables.  An "A - B - A" form.  In music a "rondo" has an A - B - A form (and a rondo can have a few other forms).  I had never written a rondo (and still haven't) but I decided to start my RONDO CAREER as a poet instead of  a composer.  So, I started to write   5  -  7  -  5  haiku.My haiku obsession - haiku career - began that way.  I've gone through periods of writing hundreds in a few hours.  Sometimes my haiku tell a story.  Other times they are related to a theme, and still other times they are disconnected and without any purpose, like my life.  (I do not have a purposeful life - I have a purpose-less life.  An ambient free-form, drifting life.  Enough of this theme.)I used to get reprimanded by poets and scholars who knew better than I (knew better than I about everything - just ask them).  Even my Japanese girlfriend told me that haiku were supposed to be about nature, not vehicles for telling deranged and absurd stories that would be parodic and unauthorized episodes of   -  -  -  -

The Dating Game

Leave It To Beaver

The Brady Bunch or

Love Boat

Or that haiku were not supposed to be vehicles to criticize and protest President Reagan, Barry Manilow or American pop culture.  My haiku started out as an escape mechanism - I was composing too much complicated concert music and found that if I got away from the music and started to write in this happy 5-7-5 format, I'd feel better.  My escape would be realized.Here is one installment of a bunch.   These are about copyright and intellectual property and date back to 2004.  If I can find my first analog book of haiku, I'll break those out over a period of time at emichaelmusic.com.  But for now, here are some IP haiku.

INTRO

Copyright haikuMusings manipulationsAnd sometimes held thoughts

If you can publishThem they might bring you good luckForward them to friends

(Maybe I’m confusedMaybe it’s email that needsTo be forwarded)

In any eventHere is the first installmentOf  I. P.  haiku

Chapter 1

I just bought a bombIt came from Best Buy and IThink it is legal

The bomb has a name -Jay-Z’s “A Cappella BlackAlbum.”  Still, a bomb

I think of it asSilly Putty; a means forCreativity

But this Putty isAlso copyrighted stuffSo, fun with limits

Press Silly PuttyOnto newspapers and watchThe print get copied

I now have a newCool thing –  an embodimentAnd derivative

My Silly PuttyHas infringed the copyrightOf a newspaper

Chapter 2

And it gets worse - ICopied an Op-Ed piece fromToday’s New York Times

I took the writer’sBest part and transferred it toMy Silly Putty

This Silly PuttyIs worth more financiallyAs I took good stuff

My idea wasTo combine Putty and printAnd make something new

There were thousands ofPrint sources for me to useI had to choose well

Or I could phrase itThis way - there were thousands ofSources I could steal

Not “use” but “steal.” ButIsn’t all expression atSome level not new?