David Poyer
author of
The Crisis and Ghosting

"Buddha has sideburns
wider than Elvis, black paint
on huge wooden head"

- this is your brain on Albert Difilippantonio's ROCKABILLY HAIKU. Leave reason behind, and walk the Tao of Billy.

Stephen J.Vitelli
extraordinary musician and writer

Rock is straight-ahead 4/4 time that you can dance to; it is very symetrical. Haiku is three odd lines with no ryhthm at all, in fact, an anti-rhythm. The two combined is like a Zen Koan - it produces Satori if you let it - as when rock and roll, boisterous and insistent, intrudes itself into a calm peaceful temple. The harried Haiku hides, the meditators cringe, the temple priest yields, his cerebral serenity diametrically opposed to sudden lower chakra gyrations.

ROCKABILLY HAIKU puts the two together, creating Kwai Chang Caine, Grasshopper, having sex with Betty Lou in the back of a Chevy, snow building up against the car doors.