the only reason you don’t like the new 34-syllable haiku is that years of reading and writing haiku destroyed your attention span
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Replying to @literalbanana
Haiku actually come from the longer tanka form and may be an actual historical example of short attention spans ruining art
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Replying to @tomlapille @literalbanana
Tanka consist of a haiku and two more seven syllable lines that ideally turn the haiku on its head in some way with an abrupt context switch
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Replying to @tomlapille @literalbanana
The best part is the carpet-pulling imo so I have always felt like haiku are stupid and unsatisfying
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so 280 tweets could potentially be a great form - but would need more disciplined structure than we currently see
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Replying to @literalbanana
It should consist of two mini-tweets with a context switch at 140 characters
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Replying to @tomlapille @literalbanana
Actually the high court tanka games around 11th-12th century were basically Twitter for absurdly rich people in medieval Japan
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haha that seems to have lasted at least until “writing shit about the new snow/for rich people/is not art” but it sounds fun
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