Haikus you can eat

Why does the cutest edible art always come from Japan? We just love these combination photo/poems of/about Japanese kids' school lunch. [From justinspace.com]
Little bird made of rice.
Fresh eggs in her lettuce nest
infested with shrimp.
Below Justin describes his travails to get these poems and photos to us.
I went to Japan and took all these great photos for y'all but then a Northwest airlines baggage handler stole my luggage during a layover in Minneapolis. All my photos were gone (along with my roller blades, contacts, clothes, etc). Three months later my luggage was found in an abandoned barn in the middle of Minnesota, but, almost nothing of mine was left and what was smelled like cow shit. But damn-it, I was set on doing something about Japan so here it is, haiku poems about Japanese kids' lunches, "Crazy Happy Lunch!"
We couldn't help wondering what kind of meal Northwest served on the airplane that lost his luggage.
By the way, Justin says he's "single and enjoy fancy dinners and massages."



Comments
My mom spent last summer in Japan, teaching Vacation Bible School (I know, you'll just have to trust me that she's a nice, mostly normal person). She said that every kid had a beautiful, perfect little lunch like that every day. She also brought me back a little kids' lunch-box set decorated with dancing fried eggs and some random engrish like "Happy Breakfast Good Fun Day!" or something. On a lunch box. But anyway...it's really cute, complete with tiny, matching chopsticks.
Of course, I'm 31 and 6'2", so I'd look a little silly using it, but still...
Posted by: res publica | July 8, 2005 10:10 PM