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Haiku From Last Night

@haikufromlastnight.bsky.social

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Everyday I'm counting syllables. 5️⃣/7️⃣/5️⃣ Brooklyn-based writer making haiku purists big mad since 2015.

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · Jun 28

once I learn to count
syllables without my hands
it’s over for y’all

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 15h

skeletal? yowzers
some of these prompts have been hard
no bones about it

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 15h

with every birthday
we resist the embrace of
the “large” phone font

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 1d

under morning haze
we sleepwalk to offices
where zoom calls await

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 2d

it’s like Wordle but
you try to guess if the milk
is still safe to drink

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 3d

wide-leg jeans, flip phones
the relics of my youth are
now a part of theirs

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 4d

one day you’re still young
the next you’ve sprained a muscle
from yawning too hard

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 4d

getting pecked to death
by crows means that a murder
has just murdered you

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 5d

did you know ice-t’s
real name was tracy marrow
it’s true look it up

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 6d

I think he’s just misunderstood!

Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 6d

rancor at my brain
that can only think of a
star wars character

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 7d

friday: the “pulling
a giant splinter out of
your finger” of days

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Neal Sellers @nealsellerswrites.bsky.social · 8d

ghastly behavior
putting ketchup on hotdogs
not up for debate

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 8d

just googled “ghastly”
and learned more than i wanted
about pokemon

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 9d

someone just wished me
a "happy start of Q4"
and my soul gave out

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 9d

it's october first
let's follow the instructions
and wake up greenday

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 9d

supermodel trips
on fetid sidewalk trash bag
good morning new york!

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 10d

always wear nice clothes
if you die that’s what your ghost
will wear forever

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 11d

yes, “children are our
future” — i sure wouldn't mind
some flying cars though

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 12d

the news today reads
like a coal mine floor littered
with dead canaries

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 13d

i got 99
haiku problems; they're all one
syllable too long

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 14d

life goal: become a
stay-at-home dad without that
whole “having kids” thing

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 15d

all our inside jokes
is it office culture or
is it trauma bonds

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 16d

a retirement plan?
yes i got one: checking lots
of old coat pockets

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 17d

every six seconds
someone out there falls for a
stat i just made up

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 17d

disappointment is
a morning headache that i
did nothing to earn

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