[Skip banner] [Home][Sources][How Do I?][Overview][Help] [Return To Search Form][FOCUS][printdoc][emaildoc] Search Terms: haiku, Cho [Document List][Expanded List][KWIC][FULL format currently displayed] [Previous Document] Document 12 of 18. [Next Document] Copyright 1996 The Denver Post Corporation The Denver Post July 29, 1996 Monday 2D EDITION SECTION: DENVER & THE WEST; Pg. B-07 LENGTH: 428 words HEADLINE: From Spamku to Lammku BYLINE: Bob Ewegen BODY: The Spamku, as aesthetes of both poetry and lunchmeat know, is a variation of the traditional delicate Japanese haiku, a 17-syllable poem that follows the form of three lines divided into five, seven and five syllables. Unlike the traditional haiku, however, Spamku celebrate - or, sadly, sometimes denigrate - Spam. There is, in fact, a Spam haiku archive on the Internet, established by John Nagamachi Cho, a scientist at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Its address is http://www.naic.edu/jcho/spam/sha.html but I reached it by typing "Spam" and "Haiku" into my America Online Webcrawler. Within seconds, I was into the Spamku archives, which now host 4,300 odd Spamku - some of them very odd. Hormel buys Seuss' rights. Revised children's book hits stores: "Eat Green Eggs and SPAM." Bill Clinton on SPAM: "Congress must cut excess pork So I'll eat that slice!" Some Spamku celebrate the dark side of the spiced ham force: Millions starve in Chad. U.S. sends massive SPAM aid. Millions starve in Chad. But SPAM fans strike back with a multiculutral salute: "SPAM" in French is "Spamme." Like Spamme frites and Spamme l'orangeThe French are so cool. Of course, you have heard those lurid tales about sex on the Internet. Spamku are not exempt from the throes of cyberpassion: I kissed you at lunch, Your lips still shiny from the Hot, freshly fried slice. Or consider this very tender Spamku: I sent her ninety SPAM haiku to show my love. She sent me a shrink. As important as lunchmeat haiku are, no true artist can rest solely on the shoulders of the giants of the Spamku form. We must always strive for still greater heights. So I asked myself, "Self," I asked, "What can we do as Coloradans to carry this art to the next level?" And the answer came as in a dream: "The Lammku." We can write three-line, 17-syllable poems about Dick Lamm. Perot had a Lamm and barked at him the order: Dick, do your duty. Lamm as president. Does that make Kervorkian surgeon general? Play "Stand up, dammit" the Marine band is now told. Not "Hail to the Chief." Lamm prez race is toast. Bid for youth vote forgot that Old folk vote the most. Celebrate this new art form: Write your own three-line Lammku. It must have five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in the third and be about Dick Lamm. Send them to Lammku contest, in care of Bob Ewegen, The Denver Post, Box 1709, Denver, 80201, or by e-mail toBOBEWEGEN@aol.com. I'll publish some of the best in a future column. Bob Ewegen is The Post's deputy editorial page editor. LOAD-DATE: July 30, 1996 [Previous Document] Document 12 of 18. [Next Document] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [FOCUS] Search Terms: haiku, Cho To narrow your search, please enter a word or phrase: [About LEXIS-NEXIS® Academic Universe] [Terms and Conditions] [Top of Page] Copyright © 2001, LEXIS-NEXIS®, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved.