Meet Wendell!
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We would like to introduce you to our mascot -- Wendell, The Flying Air Quality
Pig. Wendell will appear periodically on this website to help explain some things
about air quality. We could have paid for a professional spokesman, but Wendell works
pretty cheap, just a few bytes here and there. |
As part of his spokesman duties, Wendell writes haiku poetry.
What is haiku?
Haiku is a type of poetry that originated in Japan. In its contemporary form, it
consists of three lines of verse -- the first line with five syllables, the second with
seven and the third with five. Here is some of Wendell's finest work:
So much congestion
So many lone commuters
So few share a ride |
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Ozone pollution
Bad for the environment
Does anyone care? |
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Topping off your tank's
Bad for Kansas City air
Bad for planet Earth |
Haze darkens the sky
My breath comes out as a cough
High ozone again |
Cough, cough, oh my lungs
Please, please turn off that lawn mower
Wait for a green day |
My wings are heavy
SkyCast is orange again
How's a pig to fly?
Wendell likes to enter his poetry in MARC's annual AirQ Haiku contest. Want to try
your hand at a little haiku? Visit
Mid-America Regional Council to find out all about the contest.
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