Amusing rant

[ewx]

A Call for the Complete Elimination of Joke Haiku Production on the Internet

...if you follow the author's desire and switch to limericks instead, I can recommend this page. There are too many limericks which aren't actually limericks around already.

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[kaet.livejournal.com]

Paul Henry from Washington State,
Was Minded to start a debate,
'Bout poems you get
from the Internet
their nature, their purpose, their weight.

Haiku were particularly poor,
They're tedious, they wrankle, they bore,
Responding to each
Subject he'd breech,
Is a verse, no less and no more:

Joke Haiku are easy to write;
Great Basho they'd eaily fright;
They don't cause gaff-aws;
They're written by bores;
And fake intellectual might.

First in the ease of their writing,
surely no reason for smiting,
muddling art with craft
is more than just daft,
that thing's no longer worth fighting.

Through years to the dawning of time,
Our cultures have mixed, yours and mine,
To think it might break,
In parodies wake:
An insult, though not quite a crime.

That haiku if plotted on graphs,
Score lowly on number of laughs,
Compared to much crap,
He refuses to scrap,
I think he should redo his maths.

Usenet Haiku don't respect form?
Is this really worthy of scorn?
It's easy to see
which it would be
A Poem, spam, humour, or porn.

On the use of this ancient art,
To ensure the writer look smart,
Authorial intent
has often been bent
in accord with the reader's heart.

To counter Paul Henry's big smears
That lim'ricks ars better ideas,
They're boring to write,
And give me a fright,
Like the tedious crap that's Lear's.

When people fake Haiku do speak,
They seek not to prey on the weak,
The tedious and boring,
things worth ignoring,
In haiku hyperbole seek.

[lnr]

*giggle* you should send that to the author...