QUOTE(drew hempel @ Jun 10 2008, 04:30 PM)

Yeah I recycle my crap up through my head -- so I have to constantly spray anti-septic into my head. I'm not joking. Civilization IS crap --- the food, the thinking, etc. So I just shoot it back out -- recycle it. Free energy haiku.
Haiku is about discipline -- just like good DNA. If you think civilization is crap, an opinion I share, then the only thing we have to counteract its effects is a discipline of our own. Free energy is rampant in a bottle of chlorinated water, in a violent movie, in malathion, in Round-up, in VLF electromagnetic pollution... civilization dumps random disorganized energy at you with every breath it offers. It's disciplined energy that's hard to get to. The kind that is found in, e.g., water that is water and that's all it is, no more, no less, not free-style water with whatever random pollutants by the thousand.
Haiku, or anything else that is not 'anything goes,'
the habit itself of declining the 'anything goes' offerings ("no thanks, dear doctor, teacher, preacher, general, politician, corporation, institution, I'll keep YOUR substance outta MY form, thank you"),
is the only thing we have to fall back on. I love Homer Simpson and his free-energy ways, but when his head was examined in order to find out what he's thinking about, a cow playing a ukulele was revealed. Not that you remind me of him or anything...