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in middle school, I think one of the first poems I ever wrote was a rhyming little ditty about Spam. Lucky for you, I
have no idea where that little gem went. What I do know is that The
Spam-Ku Archive has nearly 20,000 haiku (and other assorted verse, and a book) dedicated to that most beloved meaty
little block.Some are poignant:
Empathize with them
Cut your finger on SPAM top
Pigs must feel that too
Others are just plain weird:
Freezing midwinter
The warmest thing you can wear?
Jacket made of SPAM
My pending entry:
Hurricane supplies
The loneliest can of all
Eat some more tuna.
DIY Foods: Making homemade sausage
Cakes so amazing they'd be hard to cut into
Fruit juice: An invitation to diabetes?
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1-10-2006 @ 7:47PM
Tana said...
These are not haiku. Haiku has a very specific structure: 1) three lines only; 2) five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in the third; 3) today seventeen syllables.
Only that is haiku.
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1-10-2006 @ 7:48PM
Tana Butler said...
Whoops, "total seventeen syllables." Feel free to edit the first comment and delete this one. Silly moi.
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1-10-2006 @ 10:21PM
michele said...
they seem to me to follow the haiku structure. i counted the syllables on all three.
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