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Haiku № 2760

The Haiku

by beakism

Member since 2002 · Posted 7 Jun 2002 · Edited 8 Jun 2002 · 13 comments

People only write Haikus because they're much too Lazy to write more

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13 comments

[10] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 8-Jun-02/4:29 PM Reply
I wot you were too lazy to write more as well!
[0] Twisted Wizard 9-Jun-02/2:28 PM Reply
if i could i would rate this a -10
[n/a] beakism 9-Jun-02/2:29 PM Reply
Damn, thwarted again
[1] necroscope7 10-Jun-02/10:56 AM Reply
This is just in bad form altogether. Calling people lazy merely because they choose to create their art differently than you do is just asinine.
[n/a] beakism 10-Jun-02/11:02 AM Reply
Yet again you've got the wrong end of the stick entirely. How can I seriously be insulting the haiku by writing a haiku? By making an obviously self-contradictory statement, I'm pointing out that the haiku contains much more information than seventeen syllables of ordinary speech.
[1] necroscope7 10-Jun-02/11:28 AM Reply
Many people use the form of something to insult it, it's called parody. Mad agazine for example makes fun of many movies, by using those movies and emphasising the poorer points of them. So you could very well be making fun of Haiku by writing it.
[n/a] beakism 10-Jun-02/11:45 AM Reply
You're right. People do make use of parody. But I haven't. I'm making a genuine statement on the validity of the haiku.
[5] deleted user 11-Jul-02/10:06 PM Reply
I appreciate the lightness of your humor, but this doesn't really fit the tradition of the haiku as I understand it, other than the syllable count.
[5] kawakurdi 23-Jul-02/3:22 PM Reply
Some only write Haikus
To draw attention, too much
Undeserved.
[n/a] beakism 4-Sep-02/3:32 PM Reply
You, on the other hand, do not write haikus at all: the haiku is 5-7-5.
[n/a] beakism 5-Sep-02/7:17 AM Reply
Indeed, markb, and as you will have learnt from the poem, I was - being the writer of a haiku - far too lazy to make it anything like what a haiku is meant to be.
[2] Robert K Foster 17-Sep-02/7:51 AM Reply
wow. incredible insight. and all this time I thout it was an art form, dealing with the purification and distillation of imagery and emotion.
[2] hipster flare 29-Sep-03/10:50 AM Reply
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