| I have been trying
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| To write a haiku for you
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| Some things I just can’t do
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| Maybe you’re beyond
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| Ancient Asian poetry
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| Or maybe it’s just me
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| I have been trying
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| To get this haiku just right
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| All night for you, alright
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| I’m through!
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| Maybe this poem
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| Was lost in the sauce we spilled
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| That never got refilled
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| I’ve never thought much
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| Of formulaic verse anyway
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| And rhymes are not my fort-
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| I have been trying
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| To get this haiku just right
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| All night for you, alright
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| I’m through!
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| I’m trying not to try too hard
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| But you’re hard to write down right
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| So I pen these trite attempts
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| At haikus for you tonight
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| La da dee diddum
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| Lada da dum doo diddle
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| Dum doo la dee do
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| There, that’s sufficient
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| I wrote a haiku for you (He wrote a haiku for you)
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| Well, I tried at least
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| And that’s not so bad, I’m working here
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| Can that be said for you?
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| I’m trying not to try too hard
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| But you’re hard to write down right
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| So I pen these trite attempts
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| At haikus for you tonight
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| Words don’t work like Webster says
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| They trip me up all night
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| I’m just trying to write for you
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| But you’re hard to write down right |