Last Kukai

Having participated in some rounds of an ongoing kukai without excelling in votes, I decided to write a haiku that would fit the general taste of the collected participants. By then I must have read close to a thousand haiku on various subjects always wondering about the choice of winners. None of them was exactly my cup of tea, but there you have it. Taste is a strange a varied thing and you can't really do anything about people liking what they like. But strangely the taste of that group of haijin seemed homogeneous, frighteningly homogeneous. I could have decided not to enter any future kukai but I set up an experiment: give the participants what they like. Put your personal preferences aside and write like “they” do. Fake it and please. Bend over, rather; crawl for a taste to get votes. Write like they write and see what happens. I wrote a haiku, faked a haiku I wouldn't normally have written and it got voted in at 2nd place. That was my last kukai.

moon viewing
no one sees
a barren rock


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file date: March 3, 2014

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