TOPIC IDEAS FOR HAIKU

• A red trans-am with a white swan on the hood, otherwise a red-breasted bird
• Ryan Gosling's smile, a toothpick sticking out of a sly grin
• The orange-yellow glow of traffic tunnels at night, the fish at the bottom of the ocean that glow
• The sweat that comes from adventure
• The sugar crust around a maple syrup cap that makes it hard to open
• Still life with cucumbers and pickles
• Glow-in-the-dark rubber skeletons, a tree decorated with rubber witch fingers,
• A theme park reflected off somebody's eyes, rickety rides
• Corn dogs, an empty stage, whispers
• The sound of somebody outside your house at night screaming but when you look they aren't there
• Quinceañera dresses in a store window faded by the sun
• The sound of Journey playing on a car radio dorkly

Band Names For A Noise Project That Only Ever Plays One Show

• We're Always Together
• Bathed In Aftertaste
• Useless Tree
• Runner's Thigh
• Pain Gretzky
• Journey, Pt II
• Phlegmatic Giant
• Noasis
• Unobtrusive Thoughts
• Almost Over
• Sitcom Man
• Final Exam

Haiku with the word "Awooga"

• Snow falls, cheeks tingle, / Awooga! It's time for soup / Look, a hungry bird
• Cicadas sing loud / Awooga! No more twitter. / Content sighs softly
• Leaves burn, crows circle round, / Awooga! Stop all that smoke! / Kak-kak-kak-kak-kak!
• Sparrows look for worms / Awooga! Wiggle, wiggle / Look at them all slurp
• The light of a flame / Is mingling with my night light / Awooga! House fire!
• Write. Erase. Rewrite. / Erase again. Write again. / Awooga! It's spring,
• An old silent pond... / A frog jumps in the water— / Awooga! I'm wet!
• It's a dew drop world. / And yet, even though it is . . . / Awooga! Dew dries.
• The crow pecks the bone / The skeleton turns its head / and yells "Awooga!"
• People remember / the wise silence of Buddha/ not his "Awooga!"
• Call me "Awooga!" / As I cross the busy road / That is my spring name!
• Bad Hurricane names: / Walter, Mary, Teresa. / Why not Awooga?

Buddy Cop Duos that Shoulda Been

• Rainer Werner Fassbinder + Werner Herzog. (Werner & Werner)
• Jack Black + Michael Jackson
• Tom Cruise + John Travolta
• Isabelle Huppert + Willy (the Orca whale)

More Interesting Foods Joey Chestnut Can Eat Competitively

• Corn Dogs served way too hot, as they always are (maybe he eats the sticks?)
• Cotton Candy
• Everlasting Gobstoppers
• Butter sculptures of his own head
• Sonic ice
• Fruit by the Foot
• Pop Rocks
• Sunflower seeds (shelled)
• One impossibly long spaghetti noodle
• The Lost Boys feast from the movie “Hook”
• Oysters (but he has to do his own shucking)
• Other people’s hot dogs (and he isn’t allowed to just wait by a single hotdog cart)

Closed Captions That Could Be Band Names

• Heavy Breathing
• Slow, Ominous Music
• Rustling
• Loud Sobs
• Bones Crunching

Literal Idioms

• Child of a mourning star

Compliment Sandwich Haiku

• They were really good. / But they need a bass player. / I loved their singer.