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HAIKU POEMS TO RHYME OR NOT TO RHYME?

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Rhyming is not a crime. I rhyme, all the time. However, there

are some poet partisans who eschew rhyming, as if it were

an outdated, uncouth, lowbrow sort of affair. A rhyme is

considered to be as obnoxious and absurd of a thing,

as a mime.

You should reject this argument. In poetry, it is perfectly OK to

be outdated, sentimental, uncouth, or lowbrow, because in

poetry, one of the most important things is to be free. Of our

precious freedoms, none is more important than the freedom

to be uncouth, which might make you wonder why we

value freedom as much as we do. However, another aspect

of the freedom is to be free of such rational concerns.

As a matter of fact, the freedom of poetry must include the

freedom to be morbid, hostile, and unpleasant, if this should

please us. The poet, when faced with criticism for a habit

such as using rhymes, should react by being in the face

of critics, creating a whole genre, by putting particular

emphasis on the rhymed words, beating his critics over the

head with them, and making them wallow in their

self-pitying helplessness, in their lack of ability

to make the poet cease and desist:

If my rhyming gets your GOAT

I will pay you back by cutting your THROAT

I will row you out to sea in a little row BOAT

toss your corpse overboard, to see if it will FLOAT

until it swells up with gas, and will grotesquely BLOAT

The gentle reader should observe how the above

illustrates both the art of rhyming, and the arrangement

of the text into neat, little stanzas.

To punish critics of rhyming poetry even more deviously,

I have contemplated writing a compute program to spew

out endlessly every conceivable rhyme that exists in every

human language, limited only by CPU processing power,

and disk storage space. This would have the added advantage

that all other rhyming poets, henceforth, could be accused of

plagiarism.

Why do we do it? Why do we rhyme? Oddly, we do it,

because sometimes, incredibly enough, this practice can

be pleasing to the human ear. This is a peculiar realization,

because very frequently, rhyming makes you want to strangle

the person who is doing it.

The most likely explanation is that enjoyment of rhyming

requires a certain, mental derangement. It is not the poet's

fault, if not everyone in the audience is fortunate or unfortunate

enough, as the case may be, to share the same, peculiar

derangement.

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