Instaku v.2.0

by beatvibe

Posted to Haiku Board on 2003-04-16 18:36:00


Instaku Basic™ v.2.0 from PoeTroniks is the fun and easy way to compose authentic haiku! Over 4,095 distinct poems can be rendered using the Basic kit1. Precision tempered components ensure safe and accurate haiku construction without the need for weights and measures. Best of all, there’s no mess to clean up!

Instructions: Select one pre-rationed line from each group (A, B, and C). Assemble haiku, inserting punctuation as needed2.


GROUP A:
  • ashes whispering
  • detritus abounds
  • dissonance resounds
  • icy floes advance
  • inviting Death in
  • my dominatrix
  • my new mobile home
  • on final descent
  • passions untethered
  • slumber uneven
  • spewing angst and time
  • this jar of ether
  • traded her kingdom
  • untold misery
  • void of nutrients
  • watching CNN

    GROUP B:
  • a bridge not quite far enough
  • a tool on the cobbler’s bench
  • another destitute whore
  • as entropy settles in
  • broke three ribs in the process
  • c divided by two r
  • death has less finality
  • diluted nitric acid
  • equations left unresolved
  • I am not a substitute
  • magnetic fields disrupted
  • Monk would not have played that note
  • train whistles in the distance
  • unbeknownst to the other
  • witness to a castration
  • yellow tape around her house

    GROUP C:
  • a pillar of salt
  • alone in her cage
  • computers failing
  • disintegrated
  • don’t look at her face
  • English rose in bloom
  • film undeveloped
  • labyrinth of fear
  • like vials of anthrax
  • my rose without thorns
  • neither sharp nor flat
  • prey to the black arts
  • still unresponsive
  • the seventh planet
  • unbridled passion
  • warning signs ignored



    1) 4,096, to be precise. (If elements of groups A and C are intermingled, then 15,872 possibilities exist without line repetition or 16,384 with repetition. However, the resulting haiku might be unstable.)
    2) Punctuation sets available for download at http://www.poetroniks.url/instaku_2_0/puns/~lchoice?=eng/sets.ldd.



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  • Capacitized for over 262,143 possible haikus
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  • Full uppercase support
  • Robust punctuation
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