MARINE BOOT CAMP HAIKU - Ty Hadman

A presentation of Ty Hadman's work as part of the haikumania War Crimes Project we present "Marine Boot Camp Haiku". This piece gives us a real feeling of the often brutal Boot Camp culture that even now prevails in armies around  the world. - Paul Conneally 

MARINE BOOT CAMP HAIKU 

Ty Hadman

 

     Taking the oath;
     "I promise to serve GOD
     and my country."

 
     standing on a set
     of yellow painted footprints
     there’s no turning back

     These footprints were to indicate where the new draftees and recruits had to stand in line while
     waiting to get our heads shaved.

 
     our hair is gone
     in a matter of minutes
     we look like pathetic monks

 
     on a bus to the barracks
     no one is allowed to speak
     a single word

 
     second week of training
     the damn D.I. nicknames me
     "Scarecrow!"

 
     D.I. stands for Drill Instructor.

 
     an exhausting day
     the man beaten up badly
     stifles sobs after taps

     Taps refers to the time of rest, after "lights out!" Sometimes a sad bugle is played.

 
     lights on at 4 a.m.
     the last man out of bed
     gets a boot in the butt

 
     chow hall
     four minutes
     for breakfast

 
     A chow hall is a military cafeteria.

 
     120 men
     take a piss in 42 seconds
     "two seconds too slow ladies!"

 
     standing at attention
     hour after hour in the heat
     no one moves an inch

 
     today we were allowed
     to smoke just one cigarette
     everyone is miserable

 
     daytime
     worse than the worst
     nightmare

 
     parade grounds
     our heels thundering in unison
     music to the D.I.’s ears

     The parade grounds is the place where military marches and inspections are held.

 
     pugil stick drill:

     Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!

     Kill! Kill! Kill!

     Pugil sticks are used in training men to fight with a bayonet attached to the front end of a rifle in
     hand-to-hand combat.

 
     climbing up the rope
     by the time I reach the top
     my penis is hard

 
     twice today I was called
     a slimy dick cock sucking
     son-of-a-bitch of a bastard!

 
     standing guard duty
     the D.I. hiding inside
     the dipsty-dumpster

 
     the D.I. just waiting
     for me to make a mistake
     his sadistic eyes

 
     "Scarecrow! Stand up
     with your arms straight out
     until I say you can move"

 
     have an upset stomach,
     complain, get punched in the gut,
     then puke my guts out

 
     fourth week on the rifle range
     I ain’t gettin’ Maggie’s drawers
     no more

 
     Maggie’s drawers is the name of the flag that is waved when the marksman completely
     misses the target.

 
     qualifying with the M-14
     my eye and the bull’s-eye
     become one

 
     The M-14 is a military rifle. The M-16 was mostly used in Vietnam, but a few soldiers
     preferred the heavier, but more accurate M-14.

 
     Final Inspection:
     the fly on my nose refuses
     to leave me alone

 
     Graduation Day:
     for the very first time the D.I.
     calls us Marines

 
All work is copyright Ty Hadman and should not be reproduced without permission.

 

a ripple runs through - haiku

a rippple runs through
the railway embankment
first lupins

paul conneally

Japan Earthquake Fundraising Event - Derby Roundhouse 5th June

Celebrate Japanese Culture at The Roundhouse Derby

Only £3 entry for adult £1 for children!
As well as all the events featured on the poster there will also be a chance to write haiku with Paul Conneally who will make a haiku wall or tree or matbe both with haiku written on the day and sent in from around the world.
If you can't make the event you can send in your haiku to Little.Onion@ntlworld.com and they will be displayed on the day.
All proceeds from this event will go to UNESCO JAPAN to help rebuild schools and other children's facilities.

The Loved Crazed Bombshell Explodes

The Loved Crazed Bombshell Explodes - Paul Conneally

From Bottoms For Topshop

Three Jars Of Coal Dust Jelly - Paul Conneally 2011

Three Jars Of Coal Dust Jelly - Paul Conneally 2011

The work is at at Snibston Discovery Museum - a former colliery near Coalville.

Three Jars Of Coal Dust Jelly comes out of Conneally's commission 'Spoil Heap Harvest' as cultural forager for Transform Snibston funded by the Arts Council and Leicestershire Museums Service.

The jars are in a specially constructed museum cabinet. During the Revealing Snibston Exhibition at Snibston Conneally also installed ART JAM where identical jars of Coal Dust Jelly were for sale. The left hand side of the counter jars were labelled ART and the right hand jars were labelled JAM. The only difference was the price. The jars from the ART side cost a shed load more than the jars from the Jam side.

Snibston has many 'real' objects on display.

Do 'real' objects remain the same when placed in a museum or gallery? Do 'unreal' objects become 'real' when placed in a museum alongside 'real' ones?

Arms Length - Braunstone Frith Junior School

Arms Length - Paul Conneally and Su marshall 2011

Arms Length - the lengths of twine are representations of children's arm spans - part of the preparation for marking out a Key Hole Garden. Paul Conneally and Su Marshall with pupils at Braunstone Frith Junior School in Leicester. Measuring without numbers.

The Transform Snibston William Wordsworth Trail

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The Transform Snibston William Wordsworth Trail starts from Snibston Discovery Museum, Coalville, Leicestershire, and visits places associated with William Wordsworth from the time when he and his family lived nearby at Coleorton in 1806 / 1807. As well as living in the area for around a year Wordsworth also visited the area many many times to see his friend Sir George Beaumont and visit his son John when he was parson at Whitwick. The Transform Snibston William Wordsworth Trail was conceived and created by cultural forager and artist Paul Conneally for Transform Snibston 2011.

Art Jam - Paul Conneally 2011 for Transform Snibston

Art Jam - Paul Conneally 2011

Art Jam - Paul Conneally invites visitors to the opening of Transform Snibston to purchase one of his jars of Coal Dust Jelly. Shoppers can choose to either buy a jar as jam or as a work of art. All the jars are identical. If they choose to buy one as art it will cost them more money than if they choose to buy it as jam. Conneally does not mind what they choose to do.

The Transform Snibston exhibition 'Revealing Snibston' opens on May 14 in the Century Theatre, Snibston Discovery Museum, Coalville.

Established in 1992 following closure of the Colliery, Snibston Discovery Museum is the showcase for Leicestershire’s historic science, technology, design and fashion collections. Exploring the changing technological world in which we live, through exhibitions, events and our learning programmes, you can find out more about major technological changes which have affected our everyday lives.

Snibston is dedicated to preserving and promoting the heritage of Leicestershire

Also on exhibit is Conneally's 'Three Jars Of Coal Dust Jelly' :

Three Jars Of Coal Dust Jelly - Paul Conneally 2011

The opening also sees the launch of Conneally's Transform Snibston William Wordsworth Trail.

first kiss

first kiss spring shoots under a scarecrow's arms

paul conneally

May 2011

Mick Smith and William Wordsworth

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Mick Smith, window cleaner and former Snibston colliery worker, reads an excerpt from a William Wordsworth poem written during his time living at Coleorton, North West Leicestershire, just down the road from Snibston. The poem refers to and is inspired by Grace Dieu Priory where Wordsworth used to visit regularly with his family. Grace Diieu Priory is on the Transform Snibston William Wordsworth Trail.

The video and trail are part of poet artist and cultural forager, Paul Conneally's work Spoil Heap Harvest for Transform Snibston.

Here is the Wordsworth poem in full:

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FOR A SEAT IN THE GROVES OF COLEORTON.

          BENEATH yon eastern ridge, the craggy bound,

          Rugged and high, of Charnwood's forest ground

          Stand yet, but, Stranger! hidden from thy view,

          The ivied Ruins of forlorn GRACE DIEU;

          Erst a religious House, which day and night

          With hymns resounded, and the chanted rite:

          And when those rites had ceased, the Spot gave birth

          To honourable Men of various worth:

          There, on the margin of a streamlet wild,

          Did Francis Beaumont sport, an eager child;                

          There, under shadow of the neighbouring rocks,

          Sang youthful tales of shepherds and their flocks;

          Unconscious prelude to heroic themes,

          Heart-breaking tears, and melancholy dreams

          Of slighted love, and scorn, and jealous rage,

          With which his genius shook the buskined stage.

          Communities are lost, and Empires die,

          And things of holy use unhallowed lie;

          They perish;--but the Intellect can raise,          From airy words alone, a Pile that ne'er decays.                                                    William Wordsworth        

Channelling Wordsworth

Currently 'cultural forager' with Transform Snibston poet artist Paul Conneally is once again channelling William Wordsworth to mediate between himself, community and place in North West Leicestershire. A major part of his ongoing work 'Spoil Heap Harvest' is the making of the Snibston Wordsworth Trail.

William Wordsworth and his family lived at Coleorton Hall Farm for nearly a year between 1806 and 1807. The trail will start at Snibston and take in many of the places associated with Wordsworth and his friends and family including Coleridge, Sir George Beaumont and Dorothy Wordsworth.

Conneally uses historical poetic and artistic material foraged from the area to make links between the past, now and what might be. On the 14th of May 2011 another of the 4 artists currently working with Transform Snibston, Geof Broadway, will be installing a digital artwork illumination in the Century Theatre on the main Snibston site. Conneally along with Brendan Jackson and Jo Dacombe will also be exhibiting tasters of their own work at the event.

Below is a poem from a previous channelling of Wordsworth by Conneally:

JOANNA ROCKS

no time for streams
or those that look at hills
you learn to love
passing your early youth
amid the smoke of cities

lofty firs
taller than the old steeple
village news

the vicar's collar
a house big enough
for ten rough sleepers

autumn shadows
spray-painted on a boulder
by the rail-track
in huge red lettering
'Joanna Rocks

Paul Conneally

First Published LYNX XVII:1 February, 2002

No Purpose No Design

Images from and of Paul Conneally as goes about his everyday splacist / psychogeography expolorations of the world with no purpose no design.

 

 

LIAR - Look I Am Reading - Paul Conneally - Psychogeography Through Silent Reading

LIAR Eccentric City May 2009 LIAR - Look I Am Reading - Paul Conneally - Extract from Eccentric City May 2009

In LIAR Conneally explores cities through reading in public places.

Silent reading as psychogeographic intervention.

Originally performed in Avignon as part of the Avignon Festival 2008 Conneally has gone on to read silently in many other locations exploring the line between where it's acceptable to read silently in public and where its not. What are the messages given out when someone decides to read to themself in a paticular place - home tube cafe shopping mall busy street sat down stood uo top of a hill in a stream?

Haiku Reading from Roundhill School Leicestershire

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Haiku Reading from Roundhill School, Leicestershire working with Paul Conneally

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A Month Of Tears

a month of tears
spirits riding a wave
of blossom

Paul Conneally

11th April 2011

One month on from the Japanese tsunami.

'So Many Stars' - A Starburst Hybrengay - Tanebata 2000

* read the rays from center outward; 'rays' may be also read separately below the starburst graphic STARBURST HYBRENGAY Template and Instructions Rengay is a themed, 6 stanza linked haiku invented by Garry Gay, the stanzas alternating 3-2-3-3-2-3 for 2 players and 3/2/3/2/3/2 for 3 players. The "starburst" hybrengay (hybrid-rengay) invented by Debra Woolard Bender, is a new-form hybrid inspired by rengay. In this form, a central "nodal" hokku provides a general theme and acts as the 1st stanza for 5 or more linked haiku branches. Each team of 2 collaborates privately to follow a theme inspired by the nodal hokku. Starburst Rays = 5 teams of 2 players each. (N = nodal hokku) N/3-B/2-A/3-B/3-A/2-B/3: all teams follow the same pattern, issuing from the nodal hokku which is selected by a chance drawing: Each player submits a 3 line hokku to the "renga master". As hokku arrive, a number from 1-10 is assigned to each one by the renga master. When they have been received, the renga master asks a random participant to choose a number between 1-10. The hokku with the winning number will be the first stanza and inspiration for each hybrengay "ray". Each team works independently without seeing the rays of the other teams until the works are completed and submitted to the renga master for compilation and sharing. The rays may be arranged graphically as a visual starburst (see above). 6 or mor teams is a possibility, although it would be difficult to produce a computer graphic which could be viewed online, due to screen-space limitations.     Poetry © 2000 Hortensia Anderson, John Edmund Carley, Sue Mill, Sue Torres, Paul Terence Conneally, Kevin Ryan, Cindy Tebo, Marjorie Buettner, Izak Bouwer & Debra Woolard Bende Team 1. Hortensia Anderson & John Edmund Carley: dark night so many stars Orion is lost 1/st the hunter found east of Taurus 2/ha a single photon lights the distant synapse 3/jec one moon round and full of craters 4/ha ancient tracks cross the mosaic floor 5/jec pieces of jigsaw finally assembled - the constellations 6/ha ------------------------------------------------- Team 2. Sue Torres & Sue Mill dark night so many stars Orion is lost 1/st tracking Voyager past the outer planets sm/2 late August meteors speed beyond the horizon st/3 supine on the lawn- motionless in the heavens Halley's Comet sm/4 across the sky the lights of the Milky Way st/5 shivering among the water lilies the moon's reflection sm/6 --------------------------------------------------- Team 3. Paul Conneally & Kevin Ryan dark night so many stars Orion is lost st/1 a great bear points the way home pc/2 at the sky's zenith the single northern light signals a return kr/3 in the space-lab communication fails Venus brightens pc/4 a look of love and hope passes between husband and wife kr/5 her midwife puts down the forceps a twinkle in dad's eye pc/6 ----------------------------------------------------- Team 4. Cindy Tebo & Marjorie Buettner dark night so many stars Orion is lost 1/st sailor's guide the southern cross 2/ct sonar scans we listen to whales make love 3/mb scrimshaw artist engraves the ivory with a creased hand 4/ct intricately curved seashells carrying the rise of waves 5/mb underwater maze the small fish dart into the coral reef 6/ct ---------------------------------------------------- Team 5. Izak Bouwer & Debra Woolard Bender dark night so many stars Orion is lost 1/st two lovers doomed to wonder when will they see each other? 2/ib boatman approaches the river of heaven oh weather, be clear 3/db magpies rising make a bridge for her to cross 4/ib clouds weave through silk trees in his sleepless dream 5/db tied to bamboo poems written in dew at Tanabata 6/ib

Rainfall - 7HQ - Groovefinder Full Mix Plus Iguana Brothers Original Version

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Rainfall - 7HQ - Groovefinder Full Mix

When Paul Conneally and Richard Sampson first wrote and recorded 'Rainfall' as 'Talking Bout The Sunshine' with Iguana Brothers in around 1988 it was sax driven piece with echos of the Sweeny theme tune somehow running through it. It resurfaces some years later as 'Rainfall' by 7HQ on the SuSu label. It came only as a 12" disc with three house driven mixes still featuuring the sublime vocals of Richard Sampson. This is the full Groovefinder mix.

Below is the original Iguana Brothers rough mix recording from 1988 followed by a video of The Sweeney titles and theme tune.

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Talking Bout The Sunshine - Iguana Brothers 1988 - Music and Lyrics Paul Conneally & Richard Sampson

Wintergreen and Aftershave

down by the tunnel
a collection of children
are trying to attract
the attention of players
as they emerge for
the pre-match warm up

wintergreen and aftershave
through a small boy's hair

Paul Conneally

Haiku by Paul Conneally With French Translation by Serge Tome

The following haiku were originally published in Temps Libres - the dual language haiku journal edited by Serge Tome: chrysanthamums the homeless girl pulls her baby closer chrysanthèmes la fille sans-abri serre son enfant plus fort

cco 2006-09-1 2056

tube ride someone else's iPod is playing our tune  dans le metro l'iPod de quelqu'un d'autre joue notre chanson

cco 2005-06-1 1607

too hot to sleep i search for my son's footprint in the front drive trop chaud pour dormir je cherche la trace de mon fils sur l'allée devant la maison

cco 2004-08-1 161

working late the sound of a small brown moth in the lampshade  travaillant tard le son d'un petit papillon brun contre l'abat-jour

cco 2004-07-1 152

hedgerow birds three boys share a spliff by the school gate oiseaux de haie trois gamins partagent un pétard près de la porte de l'école

cco 2004-02-2 92

rumors of war ... / bruits de guerre... sunshine and snow the boys in the reserves watch the letterbox soleil et neige les réservistes guettent la boite aux lettres

cco 2003-01-1 506

needle exchange sharing a breakfast drink in Museum Square

cco 2002-05-2 591

mayflowers three small boys track down terrorists fleurs d'aubépine trois gamins traquent des terroristes

cco 2002-05-1 592

boy's bedroom a blackbird's nest found deep in the lilac chambre de garçon un nid de merle trouvé au fond du lilas

cco 2002-05-1 593

teeth in a glass the nurse takes away his pot of blue hyacinths les dents dans un verre l'infirmière retire son vase de jacinthes bleues

cco 2002-03-2 595

chilled by spring winds schoolgirls sniffing body spray behind the gym dans le froid des vents de printemps des gamines sniffent des déodorants derrière le gymnase

cco 2002-03-1 590

a lost child in a ward of iron lungs her daffodils une enfant perdue dans la salle des poumons d'acier ses jonquilles

cco 2002-02-1 594

almost home the full moon between two houses bientôt la maison la pleine lune entre deux maisons

cco 2001-10-1 1007

chilly tea-time -- finding new cyclamen leaves in an old plant-pot froide, l'heure du thé -- je trouve des nouvelles feuilles au cyclamen dans un vieux po

cco 2001-09-1 1006

afternoon tea -- the old climbing rose somehow whiter thé l'après-midi -- le vieux rosier grimpant un peu plus blanc

cco 2001-07-1 1005

Eucharist pious women still weeping for Jesus  Eucharistie des femmes pieuses pleurant encore Jesus

cco 2001-04-1 1003

winter wonderland even the burnt out car looks beautiful féérie de l'hiver même la voiture incendiée semble belle

cco 2001-01-1 1004

almost Christmas ~ thinking how best to reveal that dad beats mum bientôt Noël ~ penser comment révèler au mieux que papa bat maman

cco 2000-11-2 1307

circle time she describes her mother finding a vein le cycle du temps elle écrit sa mère cherchant une veine

cco 2000-10-1 1306 All haiku by Paul Conneally French translations by Serge Tome

Three Jars Of Coal Dust Jelly - Transform Snibston 2011

Three Jars Of Coal Dust Jelly - Paul Conneally 2011
'Three Jars Of Coal Dust Jelly' comes from the Snibston Preserves section of Paul Conneally's cultural forage 'Spoil Heap Harvest' for Transform.Snibston
The work will feature in the Transform Snibston exhibition illumination at Snibston in May 2011 alongside work from Geoff Broadway, Brendan Jackson, and Jo Dacomb. Snibston Transform is curated and nutrured by Maurice Maguire for Leicestershire Museums.
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