Seventeen things I hate about haiku

[darksasami]

So the department has decided that they're going to have some sort of haiku contest

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[digoraccoon]

You think maybe Haikus are becoming too cliche' as a poetic form?

[darksasami]

Cliché is close but not quite what I mean, because as a poetic form the haiku is fine in itself -- it's the unpoetic abuse of it that's the problem. (I don't mind so much if it's abused well, as demonstrated below.) Really, any yahoo can squeeze anything in the English language, unless it's about pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis, and then only because it's two syllables too long.

I mean really, let's try this:

Worms gnaw severed branch
Antidisestablishment-
arianism.

So yeah. Seriously.

[anaesthete]

fingerless penguins
masturbate to midget porn
how do they do it?

[anaesthete]

olestra twinkie
sometimes regular twinkie
keep anus guessing

[jenova_silver]

Haiku in English is very cliche. Maybe as cliche as dirty limericks. *shrugs* (I like listening to Garrison Keillor read poetry, but me writing it, not going to happen.)