Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley for March 21, 2023

Mr. Garrison: “A haiku is like a regular poem except that it doesn’t rhyme and it’s totally stupid!”—SOUTH PARK

Isn’t that what you cough up called?!

Garlic will keep haikus out of your house. Otherwise you have to trap them.

Not sure I can write.

Try something short like haiku.

Nope. Still terrible.

Anyone can write a haiku. Just stop at the seventeenth sylab

Now I’m curious what Satch is chasing in the subway.

I spent way too long trying to find the haiku in the dialogue.

Tiny. And not really a threat, Satch.

“What kind of poetry?” “Haiku.” “Gesundheit.”

The haiku is the sudoku of poetry. Some may well be great, concise bits of human thought. Most are no more meaningful than a limerick. Others lose a great deal in translation.

Doesn’t know Haiku? Wow, that is so typical. His knowledge is short.

There once was a man from Nantucket …

but WAIT …

that’s in the wrong format …!

I like the way Rob’s responses to Satchel and Bucky never quite clear up the confusion. I t just keeps snowballing.

Haiku are easy / think what you want to say and / count on your fingers.

Haikus can be fun

and counting the syllables

keeps things interesting.