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Faikus
The rise of fake haikus
What is a Faiku?
A faiku is basically a haiku without F?
What the F are you talking about?
Not that F.
I know. But what does it even mean? Haiku without F? It actually has an F in it.
Not the F in its spelling. Basically F for “feel”. Feel is what is missing.
Haiku without feel?
Yes. A haiku without any “feel” in it.
What f’ing feel are you talking about?
A haiku that just follows rules.
Like what?
You know. Syllables, semicolons, and all such nonsenses.
Yes. But they are very important!
But this is not about showing off the IQ of the writer but haiku.
“IQ, not haiku” That rhymes.
Thank You.
That too rhymes.
Such a shame that we had slipped away from the subject of discussion.
What was it again?
Fuck you. I am not going to think?
Faiku, not fuck you.
Now that too rhymes.
Haiku that misses the “feel”.
Yes. So haiku without “feel” is a fake haiku — Faiku.
Why don’t you write a haiku?
“an empty bucket…placed on the floor…sounds like a bucket…laundry done”.
“We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
