The haiku is a Japanese poetic form whose most obvious feature is the division of its 17 syllables into lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables. Haikuisation has sometimes been used by Oulipians to indicate the reduction of verses of normal length to lines of haiku-like brevity. Select three sentences from a single newspaper article and “haiku” them.
The process:
My process wasn't really a process at all. I pulled 3 random sentences from an article and tried to make it different from the article. I played with tenses and pluralizations. Was I successful?? Not too sure. Did I have fun? Sure did. Did I try to make it different from the text? Yes!
The result:
Unsettling
Between 2:30The victim, he backfires
Success, no-man’s land
4:30: emails
His man: deception, no facts
M(o)ore words arrive in
Night preaches balance
Boss owns all importance
Late night life, has been
One mo(o)re victim in
Expect facts around-the-clock
Sent: Man has not lived.
Teitell, Beth. "Bosses' late-hour emailing sends an unsettling message." The Boston Globe. 17 Apr 2014. A1-A12. Print.
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