Fun With Form Studies Five beats in this line, Or do they go in this one? Man, these things are hard. Okay, I get it. This line should have seven beats. Now I'm on a roll. Five five five five five Seven seven seven sev -- Darn. That doesn't fit. Here I sit, writing. I wonder what happens if I change the metre. Oh frick. I wrecked it. On this line, I begin a haiku squared, with the typical quantity of         beats per line times itself. I begin to get the impression that forty-nine beats is a whole lot to         shove into one sentence -- I mean, a haiku is really supposed to         express one complete thought -- and only one -- per line. I'm fairly sure, having completed this exercise, that poetry and         mathematics shouldn't mix. Whew. Back to normal. Hey, that was two sentences! Inappropriate! Now for a short one. I'll have to cut a line, though. Inexplicable. Nondenominational. Big words can be fun. Here's an old stand-by: "Henry Ford is standing there." Dave will like that line. I guess I'm finished. I didn't really say much. I wasted your time! LOLOL!!! ROFL I 4M 733t!!! LOLOL!!! Brandon Sumner