Wednesday, February 11, 2009

proteins?!

Proteins?!
You're made of proteins?
We eat proteins for food!
The creature spat.
The spaceman grinned,
Hey, so do we.

3 comments:

Greg said...

nice!

David Kopaska-Merkel said...

I find this length a fertile compromise between terseness and verbosity. Tanka are more flexible than haiku, for instance, allowing change vs stasis.

Greg said...

I agree. they also allow you to show both sides of the conversation, and this one flows right through to the end.