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[rayheinrich]

Good for you, of course you must be right, you quoted someone. Which. Means everyone else is wrong. I'm sure anyone can do the same sort of thing from sonnets to sestinas, I've seen it said by some poets that a sonnet can be as long or as short as the poet wants as well as a lot of other shite, I don't agree with them either. But that all good.
So far for the newbs who want to do a haiku (according to Ray):

Make it as long or as short as you want, make it about anything you want and use poetic devices when and as you want.

Issa is one of the top three masters of haiku.
His haiku are wonderful ones to learn from.

I don't know where you get the idea that I'm some sort of
haiku libertine. On the spectrum of English haiku writers,
I'm very conservative. Read the Issa I put up, his haiku are
the ones I aspire to.

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I know. And I know that you know that I know. I've been told -- many, many times -- that I can't do any of the above. It's mostly why I hate writing haiku now.

Stop being perverse. Or at the very least, don't stop me from being perverse :p

Let us prey:
Give someone a banana and they'll slip on it, teach someone irony
and you'll never have to worry about bananas again.

I know that you know that I know that you haven't worried about bananas in 27 years.