Next Door Neighbors by Pat Sandy for April 17, 2024

They do tend to sneak up on you like that.

Hi, ku! How you’re doing?

I just don’t get it.

It doesn’t work in English.

Why even bother?

This is just so dumb, And it’s very hard to do, So just forget it.

I like poetry, etc. But I haven’t developed an appreciation for the Haiku art form. It simply doesn’t make sense to me.

I’ve unintentionally done it and people have thought me clever. I haven’t been able to find it within myself to to disappoint them by confessing my dumb luck.

Clever Claire.

Wait, panel 3 reflects Haiku?!

It’s too Sublime to rhyme.

Haiku? Gesundheit.

If you can’t say it in 17 syllables it is considered an Epic, not a poem.

Haiku—is that a form of Japanese martial arts, isn’t it?

Words bloom like flowers,

National Haiku Day shines—

Brief verse fills the air.