Haiku Spelled Backwards

Some say the greatest form of poetry

Is the haiku spelled backwards

I say the haiku spelled backwards

Is Ukiah

A small town 60 miles from where

I went to high school in Northern California.

Here you can look it up on Wikipedia.

Abraham Lincoln is buried there.

And both President Kennedy’s who were assassinated.

And Popeye.

You can visit Ukiah as a “normie” and enjoy an oyster sandwich.

But if you whisper a haiku backwards

They will realize you are “One of us!”

And speak to you in the language of our Secret Society.

Pig Latin.

They’ll wish you a good day

Uck Fay Ou Yay

Ukiah is known for it’s dead Presidents and dead Popeye’s

We covered this already

I swear

You have the attention span of a small child

What were we talking about.

After you enjoy your oyster sandwich

They’ll wish you a great rest of your day.

Uck Fay Ou Yay

Hguob kcalb, tew a noslateP

;dworc eht ni secaf eseht fo noitirapp ehT

“In a Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough.

Ukiah

Written in Blue Mercury