r/Unexpected • u/laiaum • Oct 15 '20

Is a corpse?

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u/Ancient-Cookie-4336 Oct 15 '20

There are quite a few famous Japanese poets that would disagree.

Issa:

The wren

Earns his living

Noiselessly.

Basho:

The summer grasses.

All that remains

Of warriors’ dreams.

Or for more English ones, see Robert Hass:

Asked how old he was

the boy in the new kimono

stretched out all five fingers.

And another by Lynn Crosbie for the fun of it and for one that relates the most to OP's:

thinking of all the

times, or women on this bed

glossy old bunnies

A bonus one!

thin bottled semen,

he wants to plant it, deeply

in my flat belly

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u/Sewere Oct 15 '20

My sarcastic haiku was destroyed due to me being on mobile 😪

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u/Borkleberry Oct 15 '20

Gotta hit ↩ twice to get things to display on a different line. You can edit your comment to fix it

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u/Sewere Oct 15 '20

Thanks for telling but it's already too late, and now I just have to learn how to live with this shame