Can you write a haiku using exactly four words?

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Someone asked me this at two a.m., which was a horrible thing to do, because now I keep automatically counting the syllables in words and I hate the exercise anyway.

tangent question: why does everyone know what a haiku is?

― thom west (thom w), Thursday, 27 February 2003 02:28 (twenty-three years ago)

men mate women and
women mate women and men
and men mate men, mate.

― ron (ron), Thursday, 27 February 2003 02:49 (twenty-three years ago)

that's fourteen.

― thom west (thom w), Thursday, 27 February 2003 02:55 (twenty-three years ago)

pronunciation
so economically
enunciated

can you write one that makes sense is the challenge i guess.

― Aaron A., Thursday, 27 February 2003 03:02 (twenty-three years ago)

clarification
silly misunderstanding
obsequiously

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 27 February 2003 03:02 (twenty-three years ago)

a ha!

Equanimity,
imperturbability:
same definition

― Aaron A., Thursday, 27 February 2003 03:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Eventually
everything continues
uninterrupted.

― wholesale butchery, Thursday, 27 February 2003 03:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Creativity
solidifying becomes
quantifiable.

― wholesale butchery, Thursday, 27 February 2003 03:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Sexuality
blissfully suffocating
understanding.

― wholesale butchery (butch), Thursday, 27 February 2003 03:54 (twenty-three years ago)

*immolates self*

― Aaron A., Thursday, 27 February 2003 03:56 (twenty-three years ago)

It's all about the
antidisestablishmen-
tarianism.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 27 February 2003 04:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, crap. I meant:

Don't forget about
antidisestablishment-
arianism

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 27 February 2003 04:13 (twenty-three years ago)

none of these have any kigos.

here's a real one:

kaleidoscopic
winterberry loneliness
multiplicating

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 27 February 2003 04:30 (twenty-three years ago)

oh sorry i didn't get it

― ron (ron), Thursday, 27 February 2003 04:41 (twenty-three years ago)

invigorating
wint'ry precipitation
unbelievable

I had to cheat and contract "wintery" and damn this took me ages to think up. I hate you all, clever clogs. Keep 'em coming!

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 27 February 2003 04:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Insinuating
Sexual infidelities:
Indubitably.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 February 2003 05:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Dastoorcock typing superconductivehydropanicing

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Thursday, 27 February 2003 05:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Intoxicated
marsupials: koalas
a-vegitating.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 27 February 2003 09:46 (twenty-three years ago)

my groin
is
sore

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 27 February 2003 09:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Supercalifra-
gilisticexpiali-
docious. Will that do?

― Al Ewing (Al Ewing), Friday, 28 February 2003 00:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Misty
Darkness
Trees

― Sheshell (Sheshell), Friday, 28 February 2003 00:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate you all.

― thom west (thom w), Friday, 28 February 2003 01:22 (twenty-three years ago)

ron's the best haiku writer there is. he has a now-hidden haiku-writing history. i think his answer defeats all others and cuts to the chase also.

― Clare (not entirely unhappy), Friday, 28 February 2003 04:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Neologism
That's self-contradictory:
Autofellatrix.

― Phil (phil), Friday, 28 February 2003 04:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm very partial to Blueski's.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 28 February 2003 04:42 (twenty-three years ago)

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