I subjected you to a longer poem yesterday, so we're going very short today:
I love this shirt from Threadless, even despite the offensive pluralization of 'haiku' as 'haikus' — which I've taken the liberty of correcting above.
For more irreverent haiku that might make sense only accidentally, see this online haiku generator my amazing co-workers made for my birthday in 2010 — including composing all of the 5- and 7- syllable lines that seed the generator and designing and coding the site: ellenishaiku.com (hint: hit refresh).
National Poetry Month is coming to a close, but there is still much poetry fun to be had: if you are in San Francisco and interested in joining me, I'm going to be handing out poems to passersby at the Noe Valley farmer's market tomorrow morning, Saturday 4/30, from 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. or until the poems run out. Please do RSVP with an email or a text so I can gauge how many copies to make this evening.
If you've never done it before, handing out poems on the street is very fun and rewarding. And of course you don't have to be with me in Noe Valley to do it. If you're interested in handing out poems from wherever you may be tomorrow or any day, let me know and I'll be happy to chew your ear off with pointers on the most effective kinds of poems to use, the most effective approaches to get strangers to take poems from you, etc.
Cheers,
Ellen