practicality

Is this what I think it is?

Haiku!

It is!

Not a very good one, though, ne?

It's a kind of poetry.

Usually they're better than that one, though. Like-

old pond . . .
a frog leaps in
water’s sound

It's about rhthym, I think. Though I don't know how well it translates.

What should poetry be like, to you?

Because they're funny!

[WHY ELSE]

If you say so. I don't know very much about poetry.

Well. I don't think memorizing seven herbs should be that hard!

Or there's this one-

Though there be but one
A plum blossom will aways
Be a plum blossom

[Considers this for a moment.... nah.]

No, I just they're they're bad.

So you didn't write it?

Oh, you know. Roses are red, violets are blue

[Crap. She can't remember the way that one ends. Quick, come up with something!]

you look like a monkey, and smell like one too.

That's like, joke poetry. Song lyrics, they're usually poetry too.

Very nice.

I do wonder why the writer hasn't put the other two to memory yet! But it is nice in itself.

I suppose he'd just have to work the harder to remember, then!