Haibun for the Morning

[rayheinrich]

I urge you to change your ways of spelling, I want you to include 'U'.

There surely can be no colour without 'u'. There surely can be no flavour, honour, or humour without 'u'. And what would rumour be without 'u'.

I used to include that 'u' all the time. Most of my poems on my computer written before
2007 are rife with it. I'd gotten this free copy of MS Word from some fukin' furner and the only
spelling correction dictionary it had was a fukin' Brit one. I tried to fight it, but my sloth overcame me;
if I typed "colour", it let me be, so I capitulated. Around 2007 I got a proper U.S. version;
but by then I had been firmly brainwashed into using the 'u' s and I had to endure yet another
few years of spell-checker abuse until I re-learned to drop them.     Fukin' furners!