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Haipu Poetry: Having Fun with Libi’s Poop

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The other day I was walking with Yishama and we got to talking about Haiku poetry and his sister’s bowel movements. And just like that we came up with  Haipu poetry. It seemed only fitting to share some of what we came up with here. I am confident that years from now Libi will enjoy our artistic representations of her poop. Please feel free to send in your own Haipu.

Slow to get started
rumbles toward the take off
launch right up the back

Curved to straighten
arching aqueducts of Rome
gushing out something

Not old and faithful
predictable attraction
sprays all visitors

Simmering all night
not a bouillon broth or bisque
split pee soup for all

For more on poop, please check out Shawn Shafner’s People’s Own Organic Power (POOP) Project which uses art, education, and humor to promote critical conversations about sustainable sanitation for the person, planet, and world community. The POOP Project is dedicated to creating work that heals the cultural shame making “potty talk” taboo, transforms waste-making consumers into resource-conscious creators, and reconnects audiences to their bodies, communities, and the environment that we all share. Pretty cool shit.

 

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My name is Rabbi Avi Katz Orlow. I have always had a deep love for the Jewish people and making the world a better place. It was while building community in the Former Soviet Union for YUSSR that I realized the transformative power of being a rabbi. After spending time learning in Israel, I moved to New York to be a charter student in Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, the Open Orthodox Seminary. After graduating in 2004 until 2008 I served as the Rabbi and ran the program at St. Louis Hillel at Washington University. Now I have the great pleasure of thinking about how Judaism is seriously fun. In my mind I am up at camp every day in my work at the Foundation for Jewish Camp. My wife, Cantor Adina Frydman, and I are the proud parents of Yadid, Yishama, Emunah, and Libi.

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When my son Yadid was four years old he came home from daycare and reported to me that he got into trouble. He got put into timeout for throwing sand at another child. Yadid said,” Myself said to myself, I do not want to be in timeout. Myself said to my cry, I do not want to cry”. And with that we started a conversation about his conscious life. It seemed only fitting to continue that conversation with a blog with the same name.

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My son spoke in the words of Ecclesiastes, “I said in my heart: ‘Come now, I will try you with mirth, and enjoy pleasure’; and, behold, this also was vanity.” (Kohelet 2:1) My mission is to model a life that is personally meaningful, universally relevant, and distinctly Jewish. I aspire to be frank and to speak of Torah in real life.

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