Santa Haiku

[Rusty Vandura]

I do private academic coaching and I asked my 5th grade client to write a haiku about Santa Claus and this is what she came up with.

[EssExTee]

@Rusty-Vandura I'm quite fat and I still exist.

[BicycleBuck]

@essextee said in Santa Haiku:

@Rusty-Vandura I'm quite fat and I still exist.

This is some existential conundrum. Does a child's belief make you real instead of just a fantasy? Can you be FAT if you don't exist?

[Rusty Vandura]

@bicyclebuck @EssExTee And who decides who's fat?

[BicycleBuck]

@rusty-vandura said in Santa Haiku:

@bicyclebuck @EssExTee And who decides who's fat?

Are we talking real people or fantasy people? Is someone real making that determination? Is fatness a state of mind or is there some standard scale?

[Chariotoflove]

@rusty-vandura

Santa is real
reindeer shit in my gutters
need to replace roof

[EssExTee]

@rusty-vandura I'm definitely fat.

[Rusty Vandura]

@chariotoflove You need another syllable in that first line.

[davesaddiction]

@rusty-vandura

You really should conspire with her parents to convince her (until the afternoon of the 25th, maybe?) that she's not getting any presents this year. LOL

[Rusty Vandura]

@davesaddiction If you knew this child as I do, you might not bother.

[Chariotoflove]

@rusty-vandura said in Santa Haiku:

@chariotoflove You need another syllable in that first line.

Nope, though I live in the South now, I was raised in the land where "real" has two syllables.

[davesaddiction]

@rusty-vandura Would not go well?

[Rusty Vandura]

@davesaddiction I just don't think she'd be open to it.

[Rusty Vandura]

@chariotoflove I think that it's more to do with numeracy than literacy...