Spiritual Haiku
Eradicating
Fear fails. Substituting love
for fear is lovely.
Tech support. Household
help. Roadside assistance. Life –
don’t try it alone.
Fear keeps me awake.
Gratitude puts me to sleep.
Love says good morning.
I’m a spiral girl
living in a linear
world. Sometimes passing.
Haikus by Beth Lapides, from Did I Wake You? Haikus for Modern Living (published by Soft Skull Press). Bethlapides.com
Beth Lapides is the creatrix and host of UnCabaret. You may know her from her LA Yoga My Other Car is A Yoga Mat column, as the author of “Did I Wake You, Haiku For Modern Living”, from her appearances on Sex & The City, NPR and Comedy Central or from her writing in O Magazine, Elle Decor and Los Angeles Magazine. She teaches her workshop The Comedian’s Way privately in LA and annually at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. UnCabaret is her long running comedy show in which she asks the very best comedians working what is going on with you now. The show is known for being uniquely about the present and every Sunday a completely unique experience unfolds. In the past two years Beth has collaborated with Mitch Kaplan, both on the music for her New Agey comedy show “100% Happy 88% of the Time” and at UnCabaret where Mitch is Musical Director. Adding music to the comedy is like adding an out breath to the in, a vowel to the consonant. UnCabaret is intimate, conversation, idiosyncratic and fun intentional.