Oh bugger. I thinkIt would take an exceptional effort of will and determination to avoid uttering accidental haiku.
I forgot to pack my snack
Today. I'm hungry.
Would you like herbal?Most of the time we don't count the syllables in our sentences as we're saying them. Accidental haiku could be happening all over the place, and we don't even know about it. That wouldn't stop the critics, though. 'Derivative', they would say to you, with little encouragement. 'That haiku was a worn-out example of a tired poetic genre', they could say. 'Unoriginal, and not particularly expressive of the struggles of the working classes.'
I'll just pop the kettle on.
It'll be ready soon.
That jumper looks niceThe more you know about poetry, the worse it gets. You could cut accidental haiku out of your life, but what's to stop you suddenly bursting out with a six word fiction, an accidental aphorism, or a mini-saga?
On you. You should wear that one
To work today, love.
Nope. Bugger. Damn. Nope, still doesn’t work. I’ll turn it this way… little bit more… little bit more. OUCH! No, no, I’m all right. Hmmm. Let me just look at it from this… nope, no use. I can’t screw it from here. Hmmm.Even the most doctorly doctor of literature may not be able to help it if, from time to time, they utter a rare verse form originating in Scandinavia involving 79 words, 33 syllables, and three rhyming verbs.
Why don’t we just call the plumber?
One of these days, it's even possible that a politician may accidentally utter something that is meaningful. It's becoming less and less likely that they'll do it on purpose, after all.
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How do you pronounce "genre"? I like it when people say jzahnrah, but my tongue's not quite up to it, so I usually just stick with johnrah>.
Gonra! Well not really.
Great post TimT. But
"It'll be ready soon" is
six syllables. No?
I utter blank verse all the time.
Bye
Dad. See you to
night for dinner I'm
thinking THINKING THINKING
perhaps pasta?
Sounds good
please remember
the door on your
way out
drive carefully
bye
bye
Wow man that was deep.
gonorrhea, Baron.
or Jen-ray
That's because the accidental haiku had an accidentally accidental mistake in it, too, CH....
Some might say that it's the mistakes that prove it's a TRUE accidental haiku, and not just an imitation one...
Others might not, but will use ellipsis at the end of the sentence anyway because it makes them seem more mysterious...
you're on to something
there methinks - accidental
accidental hai ...
wv = nickiest - that's one that could find a place in daily conversation
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