23 Line Haiku Hijack

23 Line Haiku Hijack I stole a haiku from the Japanese Stuffed it in a duffle bag, added 23 lines to make it fat Fed it chocolate day and night before we started Threw the 5-7-5 lines overboard in flight Then placed the new one on the market when I landed Shrimp and whale tails make for sound haiku Deliciously raw like sushi Japan hates my poetry and me. They call it criminal Call it distasteful, crude and rude and even disrespectful Complaining it suffered from too many lines and rhymes I sold the stolen poem to a toothless Afghan man A Taliban by trade, in need of a wife He realized the mistake we made Haiku is not an overweight woman, so he returned it 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 23 lines in what Japanese call, disgraceful Hijacking haiku and adding more lines is wrong It changes the meaning and is far too long Haiku will never be the same again I sent it off to India on a train…a quatrain to be exact. I have no shame, and that's a fact