While this haiku could be about anything (and it is, in fact, about many different things), I’m posting it now to offer my thanks to more than a few people who have gone to Amazon.com and purchased my book in the past week. I should probably also thank the folks who bought it before.

So thank you, whoever you are.

Your feedback is also appreciated. Please feel free to let me know you bought it, and what you think of it.

to many I owe,
and to each one far too much
to ever repay

Comments

• February 22, 2010, susan writes: You deserve it. It is a very good book of poems. May I speak for your readers and ask for volume two?
• February 22, 2010, howard writes: thanks again, Susan. volume two may take a while yet ;)

Comments

• March 1, 2009, liquidquick writes: i've often wondered
  why the world of charity
  has so many teats
• March 1, 2009, howard writes: or my potential second verse:
  
  you should peel me off,
  pour some salt on my belly,
  make me shrivel up

image: kelnishi

Comments

• September 25, 2008, Shelley writes: Hang in there, man. And thanks for sharing this.
• September 27, 2008, howard writes: Thanks, Shel. I was just roaming the ranks of the shutterbugs on Flickr and I saw this picture. Then the words started coming.
• November 17, 2008, fast cash writes: ongoing Wall Street bailout debacle and explains to us how something as mundain as accounting rules could be dramatically affecting US financial markets
• February 23, 2009, Rambo writes: Hi,
  
  Very nice one dear.
  
  Rambo
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I just saw the movie I.O.U.S.A., which is far from a popcorn flick, but may be the most important film most people will ever see. It’s about the national debt, and includes commentary from several expert voices from various political perspectives. Most people don’t seem to give it much thought, which is why I highly recommend this movie to anyone who will listen.

Things obviously need to change, but they only will if we’re ready to hear leaders who will tell us the truth – a time I hope comes before we hit absolute rock bottom.

image: peregrinari