ITP: Haiku

[slashing_canon]

I guess it's a bit
like writing a song, but I'm
not really very--

...already I can't
do it right, I guess, so, um.
Sorry, everyone.

((Camp may be able to force you to speak in haiku, but that doesn't mean it can force you to speak in haiku well. ETA: And I'm out! Merci beaucoup tout le monde! <3))

Comments

[tarnished_salt]

I don't think you need
to apologize for camp
affecting your speech.

*.....blinks, runs back through that in his head*

[slashing_canon]

There's a pattern, right?
I'm trying to figure it
out but I'm a li--

--I'm bad at it, I
guess, since I keep missing the
end of my senten--

...see? Again. I just
can't seem to get the hang of
this type of poet--

...

[tarnished_salt]

I don't think I've heard
anything like it before.
Poems that don't rhyme?

I don't really mean
to do it, but it seems camp
is forcing me to--

*>:*

[slashing_canon]

Right! Right! Yes! Like that!
It's really annoying to
just cut off like that!

[tarnished_salt]

Yes, it's really quite
annoying, not to finish
what I'm trying to--

...

...but look, there's a pattern.
At least I think I see one...
Five, seven and five.

Syllables, I mean
in each separate block before
camp makes us stop talk--

[slashing_canon]

Right, you have to stop.
Or I guess you can always
Try and keep going.

But then you have to
think up what to say for more
pointless sentences.

[tarnished_salt]

I hope it ends soon.
Thinking up new syllables
is starting to wear.

[slashing_canon]

It really is, huh?
Well, it can't last forever.

Um...it couldn't...right?

[tarnished_salt]

I don't think it could.
Most things here seem tempora-
-ry; at most, a week.

[slashing_canon]

Only a week, huh?
Well...that could be a lot worse.
I wont worry, then.

[tarnished_salt]

Probably it's less.
This effect doesn't feel like
it will last too long.