LOL. Nope, never wrote another one, except jokey verses when my son was a child, to amuse him, doggerel, that sort of thing. (Mama's interpretation of the one I showed her was mortifying.)
I get spam email with such peculiar subject lines, and suppose everyone does (though I think your subject lines get odder if you're a Word-a-Day subscriber), that maybe we could try a poem using just words or phrases taken from spam. You'd have to save up for a while. But here are a few subject lines from today.
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Relax Western European-style…For Latin American Prices Fri 8/27/2004 12:52 PM 16 KB
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lunatic piroshki near 942 Fri 8/27/2004 7:21 PM 6 KB
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sacral obsolescent Fri 8/27/2004 5:02 PM 4 KB
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abstraction dahlias from 273 Fri 8/27/2004 4:29 PM 4 KB
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Create a New Vision of Fall Fri 8/27/2004 3:39 PM 6 KB
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imagine if you had a diploma camelwhiff Fri 8/27/2004 4:33 AM 6 KB
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exhortation
Fri 8/27/2004 1:46 AM 4 KB
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Hmmmm. Maybe this isn't a great idea. Not many verbs, for one thing. Let's give it a try, for the comic effect.
Lunatic,
create a new vision
imagine,
lunatic,
you,
you sacral lunatic,
you, imagine...
imagine
piroshki!
piroshki.
imagine
dahlias,
imagine obsolescent dahlias
imagine
a new vision, lunatic.
Fall, lunatic,
you fall,
fall from abstraction.
relax, you --
(at latin american prices)
Given the limitation, it seems quite poem-like, I think!
Rule I just made up: you can reuse words, but can't add any that aren't there. I'm going to start saving my spam, this is fun. Some subject lines are too crude to use. I see I didn't use 'exhortation.' Or 'camelwhiff' either.
I sure could have used an 'and.'
We could collect a bunch of subject line everyone could use, or each can use his or her own, or we can plunder words from other people's subject lines....
BTW, I see that "haiku can be either free form, or 5 - 7 - 5." At least here. Maybe it's just for this haiku calendar competition:
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