BAH GOD UPDATE: Bushman
Below are 16 haiku about this guy, who's been in San Francisco for decades, waits behind a bush in the middle of a busy sidewalk to scare passers-by and to panhandle the crowds that watch, and is awesome. They were part of a larger project and ended up being the only part really worth posting right now.

My old senior comp professor appeared to me in a dream last night and told me to "stop being so tenative" (we were climbing nets miles above the sidewalk), so here's to that.



Every Halloween
Mr. Bushman blends right in
Kinda drab, really.

Bushman v. Santa
Which one gives you what you want?
Who gives what you need?

Bushman, Chosen One
Why is this bush diff'rent from
all other bushes?

The Fourth of July
Did they know they would die for
Freedom of Bushman?

***

Bushman on the moon
Hired on by the Russians
Armstrong was surprised!

If Bushman's on a
sophisticated stakeout
could anyone tell?

Bushman the pirate
On the Bush-Boat he did sail
UGGA BUGGA ARRRR!

Bushman the snowman
waited until his moment.
The kids cried and cried.

***

Adam, Eve, Bushman
Satan approaches wrong one
snake jumps out of skin

Noah gathers pairs
upon the order of God
Only one Bushman

Tower of Babel
falls and Bushman forgets what
UGGA BUGGA means

The Lord Is Risen
after three days underground
Bushman scares him too.

***

I take thee, Bushman
Both in sickness and in health
but not your branches.

Bushman and myself
honeymooning in Maui
lost him in the green

Child of Bushman
becomes serious too fast
Peekabo - blase.

Bushman, we grow old
and your memory leaves you
I will feign surprise.