Thursday, December 3, 2015

Hyper Brevity is The Soul of Wit

I’m a master of the one-syllable haiku, the most challenging of the haiku series. Perhaps you’re familiar with what one-syllable haiku scholars deem my masterpiece: “Toast.” Allow me to share:

“Toast.”

I believe this cathedral of minimalism not only shames my earlier works (and, yes, I am including “Moss” as well as my thoroughly dated “Joust”) but makes the whole sorry lot of them come off like Gatling guns of horrid verbosity.

BILL

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