Whiffle Ball, Haikus and BBQ
April 15, 2008
I had a wonderful birthday party yesterday - started out with whiffle ball, a great game! I didn’t do so bad if I do say so myself, hitting at least two home runs, I think. We played whiffle ball for awhile, then started up the grills, hung out with lots of friends, and had a birthday haiku reading as well. There were some very creative haikus written, and I’ll post them below. I had a friend taking photos - and they turned out really well (his name is Joel Bock - you should check out his stuff). You can check out the photos from my birthday party here. The haikus are below.
Adam Walker Cleaveland, by Keelan Downton
beer in a cozy
emerging like geneva
mmm tomato-pie
Traveling Mercies, by Keelan Downton
take solace in the
verisimilitude of
my electric sheep
untitled, by Hans and Michelle Novenson
Synapses firing
In the apartment below
We are glad you came.
untitled, by Dan Pioske
You, surnamed “pomo”
Panther eyes, riddle, rebus
My name for you - friend
untitled, by Dan Pioske
Unfathomable
Inaccessibility
Inexplicable
And finally, a collection of 5 haikus collection entitled “On the occasion of Adam’s twenty-eighth birthday, we pause to consider his qualities, his virtues, his household, and overall merits.” This collection was composed by Nate Van Yperen and Elaine James.
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Is it work or is it play?
Adam at a click
Dillon
Clear eyes and full hearts
You’re never LOST in Texas.
First season only
Sadie
Interlocutor
Is that urine on my shoe?
Adam get the spray
Musings
Enlightenment flee!
Your afterglow suits me well
Bring on pomo bro
To Sarah Catherine Walker Cleaveland, whose full name is too long for any line of Haiku
California bound
Leave us Adam or Sadie?
You can come on breaks
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Adam Walker Cleaveland: I am a 28 year old 
April 16th, 2008 at 12:44 am
Bro,
happy birthday. I usually try to call or at least send a birthday email to my family and best friends… but i got to admit.. i just forgot.
I feel pretty lame.
Anyway, happy birthday.
I still think it sucks that you’re coming back to the west coast when i finally left. And now i will have NOT visited you when you were in Idaho and NOT visited you in princeton. I guess your skepticism was correct. I feel even more lame.
God Bless bro.
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Happy Birthday Adam,
Here’s a Haiku for you:
PoMo Bro Patah
Object of Weird Prof’s Desire
Pseudo D Bar
I hope you are doing well.
DH