Poet and didn't know it

[vvvexation]

The following thought drifted through my head during lunch today, and it wasn't until a moment later that I realized I'd composed an inadvertent haiku:

The chicken is good--
I should have grabbed more of that
and less of the rice.

(I didn't say it was a particularly interesting thought.)

Comments

[canis-fortuna.livejournal.com]

Is this because you are a poet or a math nerd? Do you count how many of your sentences have a prime number of words and/or syllables?

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

More, I think, because I'm both. There's this sort of in-between area where you find people playing with the forms of language rather than the more lyrical expressive elements of it--a la Lewis Carroll or the Oulipo folks--and that's where I tend to hang out.

Counting syllables in ordinary sentences, however, would be mind-numbingly dull unless I were afflicted with OCD or possibly autism. It's more my sense of rhythm than my sense of number that tells me things like "ooh, that was a haiku."