A patriotic haiku in honor of Kansas Day
For Spucko, an honorary Kansan who dislikes unanswered rhetorical questions:
A Discouraging Word (or two)
Flat and fucking cold.
Where's all this goddamn wind come
from? Colorado.
PS: What is with all these states who don't teach their kids about their state days? When I was a kid, Kansas Day was a fun, wacky festival of Kansas-ness.
Comments
Well thank you very much !! Thanks for sending all your wind to St. Louis. We had a record high of ? and now it's ? !! Say What ??
in Kansas.Topography
of an irony.
Hey, does every state get a day, or is it just Kansas? I tried googling Kentucky Day and got "Kentucky Day Spas." But Kansas Day is huge, it seems.
Well, color me flabbergasted (which is a kind of purply/yellow polka-dot), IG! I dunno, do other states just call their state days other things? And by "state day" I mean the anniversary of the state's entry into the Union. Weird, though. I just looked at kentucky.gov and they don't even tell what day Kentucky joined the Union...
Great job! Arizona came into the Union on Valentines Day, 1912. I'll have to work up something romantic for it.
Arizona love
prickly, hot and venomous
but it's a dry heat
Love the Haiku. I'll never forget that wind...I've yet to experience wind like that almost anywhere else.
For the curious, a complete list of states' entries into the union:
www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0763770.html
And in Indiana (entered the union December 11, 1816), my natal state, we didn't hold with knowing too much about our local history. I guess that's because my hometown, Fort Wayne, was named after General "Mad Anthony" Wayne. He got the nickname from allegedly biting things and foaming at the mouth when he got hacked off. Now his mental state is commemorated by Fort Wayne's Mad Anthony Golf Tournament and the Mad Anthony Brewing Company (which didn't exist when I was growing up there -- we had Falstaff Beer, which was way more lowbrow cool than Pabst Blue Ribbon will ever be, until the company went out of business and sold their equipment to a Japanese firm).
and you're welcome for the wind. it messed my hair up yesterday. so it's all yours.
when i was in Nevada, we always celebrated "nevada day" except that it landed on halloween. it was a state holiday off, and there was always a parade I was even in it once or twice.