2026-06-30

Ironic unnumbered haiku

On some socials I go by haikujester (Xwitter, BlueSky) -- those who know me will understand what's going on there. I've been posting so many there (as pithy-ish commentaries / slap-backs / summations) that any idea of serialization is COMPLETELY out the window. This evening I started composing a haiku which I wanted to leave unfinished as an expression of having no more words to say than that -- and somehow, I simultenaneously managed to "finish it" -- after a fashion:

I wasn't annoyed
until you said not to be
<incomplete haiku>...俳句

The other party echoed back (with a LOL) the same haiku with the last light, "Now I am livid". At first I thought they were saying THEY were livid, but they were not. The LOL arrived too quickly for that. But lesson learned:

Unless you want that
Others would finish your words,
finish them yourself....俳句

(And I know. These haikus of mine are dreadful ersatz things that nobody should trouble others with, but there it is...)

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