Pornbot haikus
I always like to try to salvage something of value out of the most worthless commodity of the digital age: spam. Most of the cast of characters in Hell Yeah! are named after the "senders" of spam emails, and earlier today I was going through the followers on the Twitter account of my Scottish politics site blocking all the pornbots and noticed a slightly odd shared characteristic in the process.
Almost every one had a single-word biog, and as I went down the list it seemed to have a certain poetry. I had just enough syllables to make two haikus (plus titles), with four left over. If you can do better with the words, send 'em in.
HAIKU 1: "stone father"
prison boy bent down
soap day condition: fight time
cork invention sweet
HAIKU 2: "sugar dust"
stocking grain, tongue throat
thin political insect
plough that straight sister
spare words
plane
way
match
than
(Haiku 2 is for Germaine Greer.) Make me proud, readers.
"political"
stocking dust insect
tongue sugar sweet: that day, time
thin grain condition
"fight"
father bent way down
soap, cork, stone: throat invention
plough. plane. straight. match time.
The first one isn't so much political as it is topical. Even then it isn't timely.