Rants, mumbling, repressed memories, recipes, and haiku from a professor at the University of St. Thomas Law School.
Monday, January 11, 2016
Street names of the Razor
What happens when you ask people for their street name (in haiku)? Well, a lot of confusion. There was this from MKS:
My response is based on my immediate interpretation of "my street name." So you get a 2 part haiku on this chain of thought.
I am so naïve
Haiku the street where I live?
It’s Tuxedo Road.
I read responses.
The light bulb turns on. I am
Blondey Tuxedo.
Is there really a "Tuxedo Road?" Hmmm. Anyways, there was also this from Christine:
Christy of Fairholm
She held court in Sweeney Park
A fair maiden, not.
I think I remember Sweeney Park... and finally, we have the literalist Medievalist:
So Paul Earl Larson
Lived on St. Paul street for years,
Easy to remember.

Is there a Tuxedo Road? Most certainly! Right here on the west end of Lake Minnetonka. That explains it, right?! Tuxedo Blvd in Mound Minnesota - where I actually live, but didn't fit the Haiku 5-7-5 pattern - turns into Tuxedo Road in front of Al & Alma's Restaurant, about a block away
ReplyDeleteMary Senneka AKA MKS
Ah! I knew that was one in Atlanta, and when I was a kid our telephone exchange in Grosse Pointe was TUxedo (i.e., TU2-4759) in place of 88.
ReplyDeleteThat's funny. No one ever accused me of being a literalist before. Feels funny.
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