You know, people always give us shit about this, but we KNOW that almost none of these is an actual haiku. But if you know your RYS history at all - or consult the as yet unwritten RYSFAQ - you'd know that academic haiku are "short, enigmatic free verse about academic matters, occasionally referencing seasons, nature, and margaritas." And somebody sent one.A Professor's Lament
Many students who just didn't care
'bout the difference 'tween “there,” “their,” and “they're”
with papers innumerable
and grammar inscrutable
led me to drink and pull out my hair.
** Update **
Even though we floated this out there on a weekend, we still got a number of nice emails letting us know that the above piece was not just NOT a real haiku, that it was actually a LIMERICK, another form entirely, not free verse, not even very enigmatic, and thus, an incorrectness of such monumental proportion that we should be - wait, let's get the quote straight - "sticking that bonsai tree up our asses."
