English Original
a long line
outside MoMA --
the realism of it
a place, 2024
Jack Galmitz
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
一條人龍排隊等待
在現代藝術博物館外面
它的現實性
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
一条人龙排队等待
在现代艺术博物馆外面
它的现实性
Bio Sketch
Jack Galmitz was born in NYC in 1951. He received a Ph.D in English from the University of Buffalo. He is an Associate of the Haiku Foundation and Contributing Editor at Roadrunner. His most recent books are Views (Cyberwit.net, 2012), Letters (Lulu Press, 2012), yards & lots (Middle Island Press, 2012), not-zero-sum (Impress 2015) and Takeout (Impress, 2015). He lives in New York with his wife and stepson.
From the narrator's/observer's perspective, this eye-catching scene, Ls 1&2, of a long line of people waiting outside The Museum of Modern Art/MoMA, known for its better collection of "contemporary art in a spirit of experimentation" and located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, becomes a "Realist piece of art work" (as claimed in L3).
ReplyDeleteA fine haiku with a sarcastic bent!
For more examples, see "To the Lighthouse: A Rhetorical Device, Sarcasm," accessed at http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.com/2024/08/to-lighthouse-rhetorical-device-sarcasm.html