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PRUNE JUICE Journal of Senryu & Kyoka Issue 6 : Summer 2011 ISSN: 1945-8894 Editor : Liam Wilkinson Features Editor : Bruce Boynton Prune Juice : Journal of Senryu & Kyoka Issue 6 : Summer 2011 Copyright © Liam Wilkinson 2011 All rights reserved. If you wish to reproduce any part of this journal, please contact the editor/publisher in writing. Reviewers and scholars may quote up to six poems, Prune Juice: Journal of Senryu & Kyoka is a biannual digital journal dedicated to publishing and promoting modern English senryu and kyoka . It is edited by Liam Wilkinson. Please send all submissions and correspondence to prunejuicejournal@yahoo.co.uk. ISSN1945-8894 www.prunejuice.wordpress.com
EDITOR'S NOTE I feel I should tell you that, since the last issue of Prune Juice, I have owned, used and managed to break no less than three mobile phones. The first was an iPhone – perhaps the best little gadget I ever had – which suddenly stopped functioning as a phone. I'll never forget the nugget of wisdom bestowed upon me by the helpline operator the day my little gadget decided to stop making calls: “Well, you can surely do without the phone function, can't you? I mean, iPhones aren't really for phoning people with, are they?!” Then there was a brief flirtation with something called a Qwerty phone. I didn't mind so much that the keyboard was designed for people with hands and fingers that hadn't grown since birth, but was rather frustrated by the fact that, in order to call somebody, I had to be standing only several feet away from the them. In essence, the Qwerty phone was no more reliable than a couple of plastic cups and a length of string. Indeed, the phone expired after being dropped only once on a carpeted floor. More recently I acquired an Android phone – a suitably-named device that really ought to get back in its spaceship and sod off home. In the two months that I have been using this phone it has required around twenty reboots, two hard-resets and one new battery. It also appears to have forgotten everything I've asked it to remember – telephone numbers, photographs, notes and reminders have all been suddenly wiped. Owning this phone is rather like caring for an elderly relative who knows you from somewhere but can't quite put their finger on it. What amazes me is that, when I purchased each of these phones, I was led to believe that they were 'smartphones'. This is the same 'smart' that we would normally associate with leading physicists and chess players. However, I'm left with an acute yearning for any dumb, stupid, idiotic device that might promise the basic ability to make a phone call. My reasons for leading you down this crazy-paved path of personal frustration are inspired by many of the senryu and kyoka that feature in this edition of Prune Juice. Whether it be our phones, our computers, the Internet or gaming systems, modern technology has become so much a part of our daily lives that our senryu and kyoka have become just as necessary as the vents down the sides of our computers. Let's hope they prevent any overheating. To begin this issue, I'd like to extend a warm welcome to Bruce Boynton who has become Features Editor of Prune Juice. I'm thrilled to have Bruce on board and am delighted that, for his first feature, Bruce visited Prune Juice founder Alexis Rotella at her home, where he interviewed this eminent poet
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