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Waiting it out sucks! In the meantime, let's write some haikai.


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Peanut butter and sliced ham

On toasted wheat bread:

You may or may not like it.

 

Does sliced turkey work

On your sandwich? Because,

Jew equals no ham

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Does sliced turkey work

On your sandwich? Because,

Jew equals no ham

 

Yes, indeedy Bob, it does.

In fact it's what I had today,

But wrote "sliced ham" instead of "turkey breast" because

 

I did not like the way

The first line would end in "breast"

And the second line in "bread," lest

 

It sound displeasing to the ear,

An admittedly silly fear.

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Wind shakes the barley

A series of rejections

Shakes my hopes and dreams

 

春が来る

新しい経験

も来てるよ

 

(Spring comes

New experiences

Are also coming)

 

花のよう

先生の前に

揺れる僕

 

(Like a flower

Before my professor

I am shaking)

 

あ、むしゃむしゃ

ストレスの所為

デブになる

 

(Oh, munch munch

Because of stress

I am getting fat)

 

大問題

やる気が飛んだ

戻ってくれ!

 

(This is a huge problem

My motivation has flown away

Come back!)

 

懐かしい

川柳を書く

逢いたくて

 

(This takes me back

Writing senryuu

I miss you guys)

 

How my friends used to

Procrastinate our homework

Was writing senryuu

 

Blank Word document

Stares like Derrida's kitty

Turn the gaze away

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WTF

Makes five syllables out loud.

WTF?

 

and "what the frak" is

a pithy three syllables

WTF?

 

in some other news

a series of dumb events

karmic deposit?

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