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Funeral for the living
[Editor’s note: True story first, then poetic recap below. This is befitting Mother’s Day. Give it a try.]
Egyptian Pronounced Alive At Funeral
by The Associated Press
May 12, 2012
The funeral of a 28-year-old waiter in southern Egypt turned into a celebration when he woke up after being declared dead.
Hospital officials had pronounced dead Hamdi Hafez al-Nubi, who came from the village of Naga al-Simman in the southern province of Luxor, after he suffered a heart attack while working.
His family says grieving relatives took him home and, according to Islamic tradition, washed his body and prepared him for burial Friday evening.
A doctor sent to sign the death certificate found it strange that his body was warm. At closer observation, she discovered he was still alive.
His mother fainted upon hearing the good news.
With the doctor’s assistance, both al-Nubi and his mother were awakened and soon were celebrating with guests.
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The heart would not rest.
A young, dead son waits no more.
Funeral of joy.
Happy Mother’s Day
Filed under haiku, Mom, news to poetry, true story
Homeless bound
[Editor’s note: Okay, folks, another attempt at abbreviating a bit of unusual news. see my haiku at the end of the article. You try it and post your reply in the Leave a Reply area below the posting.]
Suspect bunked with dead man for six days — warrant
Stayed on after tenant died
Source: http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/may/08/suspect-bunked-with-dead-man-for-six-days-151/?partner=popular
By Jamie Satterfield
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Sure, there was a dead man in the bedroom, but the rent was free.
So explained James M. O’Brien, 58, when Knoxville police showed up at Isabella Towers to discover O’Brien had been bunking with a dead tenant, according to an arrest warrant.
O’Brien is set for a preliminary hearing Wednesday in Knox County General Sessions Court on a charge of abuse of a corpse in connection with the April incident.
According to a warrant filed by Knoxville Police Department Investigator Brian Moran, O’Brien, who is homeless, had been staying with Clarence Stephens III, 47, at Isabella Towers, a low-income apartment complex on Isabella Circle near KPD headquarters. On April 21, Stephens died.
O’Brien knew he was dead but continued to stay in the apartment, the warrant stated.
“The defendant said he covered (Stephens) in clothing and blankets and opened the windows due to the increasing foul smell of (Stephens) decomposing in a manner offensive to the sensibilities of an ordinary person,” Moran wrote.
O’Brien spent six days in the apartment with the deceased before a manager at the complex noted a noxious smell and alerted police, the warrant stated.
Moran wrote that O’Brien said he hit Stephens in the throat, “at which time (Stephens) laid in his bed and never regained consciousness.” However, KPD spokesman Darrell DeBusk said an autopsy showed no signs of “blunt force trauma,” and a preliminary report suggested Stephens died of natural causes.
“The medical examiner said the deceased was on medications for several things, had seizures and was a heavy drinker,” DeBusk said.
O’Brien is being held in jail in lieu of a $5,000 bond. Abuse of a corpse is a low-level felony and carries a penalty range of one to two years in prison.
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“Homeless now”
Home window wide. Smell
the fragrance of the long sleep.
Body homeless now.
Filed under haiku, homeless, true story
True story: testicular “arrest”
[Editor’s note: some things you can’t make up. While the national media has rightly been poking (pardon the pun) fun at the Tennessee State legislature for some of the asinine legislation it has passed this session, this was going on in a neighboring state.]
Sources: http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/may/07/another-testicle-ticket-written-in-south/?partner=popular
Another testicle ticket written in South Carolina
Associated Press
Monday, May 7, 2012
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — For the second time in a year, a motorist has been ticketed in South Carolina for displaying a replica of testicles on a vehicle.
A Spartanburg County sheriff’s deputy stopped a truck Sunday evening after noticing the “anatomically correct” display on the rear bumper. The incident report says the driver removed the display after being stopped but he was arrested for driving without a license. He was also given a warning ticket for having an obscene display.
Last July, a Berkeley County woman was ticketed for having a similar display on the back of her truck.
That case is to go to trial in municipal court in the town of Bonneau. That trial has been delayed three times and no new trial date has been set.
[Some final commentary in haiku form:
Testicle arrest:
lifelike on the dash. Driver
in pain; wife arraigned.
Hemingway once claimed that the shortest story he knew of was: “For sale: pair of baby’s shoes. Never used.” I challenge you to take the news article above and turn it into a short short short story or poem. You can paste the results in the Leave a Reply section of this blog entry.]
Filed under haiku, pain, true story
Every here and then
Yes, we all must live /
in the here and now — at least /
every now and then.
Filed under haiku, humor and haiku, poem, poetry
Three leaves
Three leaves gather rain. /
Heavy with sky, touch the ground. /
Glistening repose.
Three leaves heavy with rain.
Filed under haiku, Photo by author, poem, poetry
Jesus redeemed
In redeeming even a small part of the Earth, we redeem ourselves.
Jesus tossed among /
the trash in the creek; redeemed /
by a boy: Earth Day.
Filed under Earth Day, First Creek, haiku, Photo by author, poem, poetry
Redo: Glimpses
[Editor’s note: The original “Glimpses” was syllable too long. So, here is the haiku again. This time trimmed by a syllable.]
At the water’s edge,
Echoes whisper my longing.
My heart holds your face.
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