Tuesday, February 16, 2010

I'm not really that fat, or why dollar burger night changed my life

I'm sitting in Bar Louie's
It is one dollar burger night.
I feel skinny because I ordered a turkey burger. I wrote a haiku about it...

Dollar burger night
Calories followed by blight
Turkey offers light

So this is not the most successful verse I have ever penned, but there is something satisfying, and falsely cosmopolitan about a haiku.

I made the extra effort to make the 'syllable-based' haiku also rhyme -- but please don't make the error of thinking this is a limerick!

The wiki entry on haikus is extensive. Apparently the Japanese concept of 'syllable' and the American approach don't completely mesh... How disappointing that my haiku wouldn't cut it to a true afficionado. I choose to remain blissfully ignorant-- at least outwardly.


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