Haiku | “my heart is dark and dramatic”

my heart is dark and / dramatic. my body aches / for you. be impressed.

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on March 29, 2023 at 11:26 am | Reply Peter Galen Massey

Grade: A. This haiku satirizes love poets and love poems. Poets tend toward self-dramatization and self-aggrandizement, and when we talk about love, we love to talk about how deep and powerful our love is! This results in vast quantities of dull, unconvincing, stock poems which beg the question: Are you lying to me or lying to yourself? The speaker in this poem is cheerfully lying to you and himself, admits he’s lying, and is honest about his intentions. It’s all about him. The enjambment heightens the satire and how the words sit like broken within the lines signal this is an anti-poem not a poem.