Greasy Kool-Aid hair,

Flea-market ripped blue jeans,

Flannel shirts and dirty white socks,

I'm no poser.

 - chameleon

 I was teaching 7th grade during the height of the grunge (Seattle sound) movement, and I'm not sure I have a clear understanding of grunge art... but here's my attempt at grunge music haiku...

Stone Temple Pilots
sang the ragged flannel sound
from San Diego

OH.....Constance, this is incredible.Very good....

I love you always

like the air and the water

both well poluted.

This is an ironic (grunge?) haiku, I believe.

Kisses, GOYA

All of you are too much!  These are so good, Constance and Goya!  Plus all of you who have already contributed.  Awesome.  Thanks so much.  I think we've invented a whole new art form - grunge haiku.  Wow.  I'm going to run out of room in my zine!  I won't be able to add any more than these, but keep on writing them if the spirit moves you.  They have certainly been interesting.      I'll post those pages of grunge haiku soon here in this forum for anyone to print if you want to. 

Oh Bill Thank you soo much, I whish I knew more about computers to participate...

Next time I want to participate in your next zine...in the meanwhile can I purchase a copy of your grunge haiku zine????

And by the way, YOU HAVE INVENTED THIS RICH ART FORM: grunge haiku. It gave me agreat feeling!!!!! don't know what....

PICARDIA???????????? with respect and many many thanks, GOYA

On the terrace of

the international cafe

a burned book.

Hi Goya!

The entire zine is 24 pages long, because I'm including "grunge" art that I've done.  It's all in color, so it's going to cost me a lot of money to print.  The grunge haiku is only 4 pages long, though.  If you give me your "snail mail" address (postal address), I will print the grunge haiku as a mini-zine and mail it to you free.     I love all of your contributions!

I will post those 4 pages in this forum as a pdf file for anyone else who wants to print them or at least see the pages.  I might be able to get them posted tomorrow evening.  I want to mail them to Goya, because she is not a computer nerd like many of us here.    I just hope you won't be disappointed by the way I've put them on the pages.  Darn!  There goes that inner critic again!

I'm very happy you have had fun writing the grunge haiku, Goya!  I think it helps us to write down those creepy, inner feelings we often tried to hide.  Boy, don't I sound like a psychiatrist now?   

Hi Bill ~~ I can hardly wait to read the haikus you've compiled. Disappointed "by the way (you've) put them on the pages"? - absolutely not!   That's very generous of you to share the pages as a PDF for all of us in the - - -

tom-tom club

bound and hagged

swinging on the flippety-flop

in our plats and kickers

fuzz and wack slacks.

Visit the Wikipedia site at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge_speak to decipher the (made-up) grunge slang.  

rock on,
chameleon

 The system would not allow me to upload the 4 pages as a pdf file, so I uploaded them as jpegs.  Here are the links:

http://artellacafe.com/blogs/billizettis_world/grunge_haiku/wjc_grunge_haiku_Page_1.jpg 

http://artellacafe.com/blogs/billizettis_world/grunge_haiku/wjc_grunge_haiku_Page_2.jpg 

http://artellacafe.com/blogs/billizettis_world/grunge_haiku/wjc_grunge_haiku_Page_3.jpg 

http://artellacafe.com/blogs/billizettis_world/grunge_haiku/wjc_grunge_haiku_Page_4.jpg 

I sure hope you like them!  (Yah, my inner critic never shuts up!) 

We're going to have to bind and gag that inner critic of yours, Billizetti! That's GREAT stuff!

~copper cat

Bill, I just LOVE your artist grunge pages - so much energy! And you have expressed the idea of grunge so eloquently! The fonts used, down to the background effects that look old, dirty and messy, are fantastic.  Thanks for this.

- chameleon

Thank you BILLL they are impresive.....I love the idea you had

to present them MIL GRACIAS, a thousand thanks, GOYA

this is how he sounds

 like a dusty chandelier

plunging on stones

from GOYA

 Bravo, Billizetti!

These are so wonderfully gross and skanky, I just love them. What a stroke of inspiration to dignify the disgusting with its own zine, too.  You are inspiring!

KateSinging