In the mail,
a chain-letter...the promise
of bad fortune.
About Masago
- Masago
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- From "The Haiku Anthology" I became interested in Haiku and I have since written numerous haiku, senyru, and tanka. "Masago", my haiku pen-name, means "grain(s) of sand" in Japanese. I have recently started learning Esperanto and Japanese. A few years ago I developed a new eastern verse form which we now call 'Renhai'.
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12 comments:
1057. Keep it Going
In the mail,
a chain-letter...the promise
of bad fortune.
Link with 1056: Chain.
[I'm not sure if it is as common these days but I recall when I was younger getting chain letters in the mail. They'd contain promises of fortune and happiness. But you had to make copies of the letter and send them to ten others. There was usually a story of someone who failed to keep the chain going who ended up suffering some terrible tragedy (e.g. broken leg, getting sick, or even dying). It reminds me of what we get these days with emails that warn of some terrible virus that urge you to forward it on to everyone in your address book.]
I seem to see such things in e-mails now -- times have changed
if you don't forward this Email to 70 of your friends immediately.......
(delete, delete)
ggrrrrrrr
chain mail
you are so right
I remember those
john
I don't send them, break every one sent to me. Hate them. Still waiting on bill Gates to send me my money. Hit a nerve with this one!!
grrr... hate those chain letters. if anything is true about bad fortune, i'm screwed for at least a dozen of my future lives :)
Andrew: Yes, all too common, I'm afraid. :-(
Pamela: yes, yes. :-)
Floots: :-)
John: Right, people are too lazy to do it the old fashioned way now days, I suppose...luckily.
Pat: *too funny*
Polona: LOL ...Its almost as bad as spam...wait, it is/was a kind of spam, wasn't it?
I remember reading Willaim Blake who said something like: Nothing new happens on this Earth - the same stories repeated all over again. By the same types of persons - he claimed that the 29 pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are the eternal types that keep recurring throughout human hystory - worth reading his own (Blake's) description of his painting with the same title (Canterbury pilgrims)....!:)
I've suddenly started receiving a number of chain e-mails. I like the way you use "promise" here.
funny, how they make us feel inclined to foward through fear....
Borut: Yes, history does repeat itself. :-)
Bill: Thanks.
GZ: Right, they operate on people's fears.
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