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Once a Scorpion

once a scorpion
now a greasy spot 
in the road

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Poet Destroyer A

October 7, 2012 at 7:21 AM

Okay, i see everything that follows... but the syllable count is 12. Is this a haiku, I thought all haikus should read 17 syllables. I mean I should not even ask, you know all the haiku rules. thank you for responding...pd

Robert Pettit

October 6, 2012 at 8:53 PM

Interesting haiku. If you are referring to the venomous arachnid, then the word is correctly spelled "scorpion". In astrology, someone born under the sign of Scorpio (myself included) is termed a "Scorpian".

Charles Henderson

October 6, 2012 at 11:51 PM

Thanks Robert, I knew scorpion is with an O, but just messed it up. However, I did not know that about scorpio's.