I have a suspicion that if you don't know the sort of people we are, you'll be wondering what the hell this page is about. So I'm going to break away from the surrealism trend to explain it just a little bit. The purist in me demands I don't do this, and instead assume that anyone willing to give art a thought will work it out, (like those bloody Turner Prize winners do), but that's not going to happen - you can only understand things if you have some idea of their premise, and if our attempt here is truly acheiving its goal of being an original method of haiku poetry, then you'll obviously NOT have any experience of it. We're not copying a trend here, we're trying to start something new. So you're going to need a little map telling you where you are and what you're looking at.

Basically, any form of writing on the site (and anywhere else) has two parts. That which we write, and that which you read. They aren't going to be the same thing. What I'm thinking of when I write a haiku, and the images you come up with when you're reading it are going to be somewhat different, however we do things. So therefore, since we're not going to be able to convey an image we're thinking of perfectly through words, then what's the point of us trying to paint verbal pictures for you that you're not going to see. The less structure you're forced into with the words, the more freedom you have to create what you want to see, or what you want to think about. The haiku should inspire you to think. That's basically the logic behind the surrealism. What IS a greenbean / squidchips medley, for example?? (Kellz asked me the question - I love the word squidchips, don't you?? So rich in tone. And medley makes it all sound just so jolly!!)

We think it's fun to think about such things when there's nothing else to do. Perhaps you don't care. If you don't care, you may as well leave - this site isn't going to be for everyone, obviously. Nowadays, you hardly need to use your imagination at all. Everything in the world is fairly accessible. Here, there's no harping on about how beautiful the south of France is - you can see that on TV, you can read that in a book, you can go there if you please - or what might lie in the deepest Amazon - mankind has been there and uncovered most of its secrets, and it's got a McDonalds now, I'm sure - but instead, we've decided to pick things that no one in the world could possibly have talked about, and probably things that have never even been thought about. It's important!! The internet lets you access knowledge on anything. But it's not exactly overflowing in imagination anymore. Just a lot of people copying everyone else. The world has lost its pioneers.

We're not pretending this is rich in Keatsian imagery or anything, just different. The general theme is a cynical modern day society, (why is cynicism so much easier than being positive?? Talk about jaded youth - we're both still teenagers by some way.) and most of the poems will fit in with a theme like that if you're trying to dig a meaning out of them. Sometimes the haiku are just strange plots, sometimes they contain metaphors, sometimes even we can't remember what the hell they were meant to be about. (I remember coming up with deep meaning for that freezer poem, but I've forgotten and without it, it just seems pathetic... maybe someone out there will rediscover it for me!!).

Some of them have a plot, or a theme, some of them are entirely abstract. Words plucked out of air for the sake of it. But they're all haiku. Not true haiku, in the old-school Japanese theme, but haiku nonetheless. Why haiku?? Because there wouldn't a point to surrealist haiku without the haiku.

The site design is also attempting to blur the boundaries somewhat, in our postmodern little world. It'll look fairly simple on the surface, but the discerning and astute visitor will notice that there's more between the lines. We don't like things being fixed either. Generally, the more random it has in it, the better, as long as its not entirely incomprehensible. It keeps the site fresher, don't you think?? Nothing beats new content, but random can blur the timelag between updates since the site can theoretically update itself in tiny ways.

And the adverts are just for fun. There was a lot of unused space so we decided to attempt to fill it with portable boxes. I didn't exactly write the javascript on the site, it has to be said, but rather combined and edited and messed around with about half a dozen scripts I came across and put them to some use. As in, we don't have scripts for the hell of it - they DO something that we want them to do. God I hate websites that steal a script, try to pass it off as their own, and don't do a worthwhile thing with it. We could be accused of that with those boxes that appear over the pagelinks, I suppose, but with randomly altering words there, we thought you might want some reassurance that they really were still the same ones. But we like novel.

So novel is what you get.

PS. Our grand goal is to develop this site so that one day, someone, somewhere, will include it in a university dissertation. If you ever do that (ho ho!!) email us straight away, including the dissertation, and we'll give you a shrine inside the feeblesquare.