Monday, April 30, 2012
Haiku Winner!
By acclamation, the winner is RRL, who wrote this as his own obituary:
Robert was a good
bowler, and a good man. He
was one of us. He
was a man who loved
the outdoors… and bowling, and
as a surfer he
explored the beaches
of Southern California,
from La Jolla to
Leo Carrillo
and… up to… Pismo. He died,
like so many young
men of his time, he
died before his time. In your wisdom, Lord, you took
him, as you took so
many bright flowering young
men at Khe Sanh, at
Langdok, at Hill three-
sixty-four. These young men gave
their lives. And so would
Robert. Robert, who
loved bowling. And so, Robert
Randolph Little, in
accordance with what
we think your dying wishes
might well have been, we
commit your final
mortal remains to the heart
of the Pacific
Ocean, which you loved
so well. Good night, sweet prince.
One thing that should be clarified, by way of biography, is that RRL is not an fan of traditional bowling, as is practiced by most other Wacoans. Oh, no. He is, instead, the only Central Texas practitioner of candlepin bowling. In fact, he was able to attend law school with his significant winnings on "Candlepins for Cash." He spent a small amount on a vacation to Haiti with a special lady, and then plowed the rest into tuition.
From 1997-2001, RRL lived in a secret lair on an island in the Pacific, after living briefly in Dorchester.