A set of haikus
On how to carefully write
A set of haikus.
1) Count on your hand.
2) Double check every line.
3) Be scrupulous.
This balanced budget
Can never be overspent,
Never overdrawn.
Starved for syllables
As if there were a famine.
Please use sparingly.
Gently arranging
Anapests next to iambs
Like playing Jenga.
Writer and reader
Share responsibility
For checking each line,
As if the writer
Would try to sneak some extra
Under the table.
I’m not that greedy.
I like having boundaries,
Some rules to play by.
You know the best way
To give a cow his freedom?
Fence in his pasture.
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