What do you get when you add one mostly sleepless night, a Facebook account and a random observation totally devoid of meaning? A series of haiku poetry inspired by Welcome Back Kotter
.Last night I innocently pointed out that you don't see much haiku poetry inspired by Welcome Back Kotter. A couple of folks took this as a challenge. Below is (are?) haiku(s) that started appearing on my Facebook page late last night.
Behold Juan Epstein
Quite possibly the only
Puerto Rican Jew
Oooh Barbarino
70's hair seducing me
georgious sweathog king
Of all the Sweat Hogs
How in the world did Horshack
Hook Epstein's sister
Boom Boom Washington
Despite popular belief
Never did play the bass
Please excuse my Juan
UFO, taken was he
signed, Epstein's Mother
They lost Travolta,
Added a redneck sweat hog
This show jumped the shark
Poor Old Gabe Kaplan
No job since the Seventies
Plays poker for food
Not to rain on thy parade, but if I may, a haiku isn't *just* about 5/7/5; the last line needs to either develop or contrast with the first two. I won a Star Trek Online contest when I was trying to illustrate this concept with this one:
ReplyDeleteThe final frontier
Just keeps moving further out
Yet, it is inside
John: Care to contribute to the Welcome Back Kotter theme?
ReplyDeleteFuckin' Trekkkies, always trying to suck the fun outta everything.
ReplyDeleteTrek Haiku poet
ReplyDeleteThinks he's a scifi Basho
But he's just a punk ass bitch
Dealing on this guy
More fun than Kotter haiku?
How about that shit?
I would, except I've never seen WBK.
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