20 Lines Haiku Hijack

20 Line Haiku Hijack I stole a haiku from Japan Stuffed it in a duffle bag, added 20 lines Fed it chocolate day and night before the flight Then placed it on the market when I landed Shrimp and whale tails make sound haiku Deliciously simple like sushi. Japan hated mine. Called it distasteful, too heavy and rude Complaining it suffered from too many lines I sold the stolen poem to a toothless man next An Afghanistan Taliban in need of a wife He realized the mistake and returned it at once Calling it bland, loveless and torturously trite I injected a diaphragm on the haiku 2nd line To prevent undo pregnancies When left alone to expand, haiku will multiply on command It grew from 3 to 20 lines in what Japan calls a crime Hijacking haiku and adding more lines is wrong It changes the meaning and makes it too long Haiku will never be the same again In the end I put it on a train to India…a quatrain to be exact.