Characteristics and examples of a Trump Haiku
- a three-line format with 11 syllables
arranged in a 9-1-1 pattern
- erratic punctuation and capitalization
with words misspelled
- a focus on some aspect of self-importance,
ignorance, or television
- the word “trump”appears in the title
- a frivolous or shallow tone with precise brevity
- circular syntax and occasional usage and
misusage of real and imagined words
- exaggeration predominates over facts and
veracity, with meaning distorted to cause
reader confusion
Poem taken from Things That Go Trump in the Night – Poems of Treason and Resistance by Paul Fericano
You are a small firecracker playing with a keg of dynamite. In other words…to say you are relevant is like calling the Grand Canyon a Pot Hole.