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Convenience stores? What slurpee pairs well with lobster?

primeval delight
on a blazing wood fire;
cheese elevates bread.

The beer and pizza
combo. Timeless classic.
Cotes-du-Rhone works too.

Pizza for breakfast?
It's good cold or reheated.
Not so with sushi.

I must stop.

Just one more. Aaaaarrgh.

quick lunch uptown slice
pavement hot heels high fold it
walk teeter bite sauced crunch

That is an interesting choice of judge. American Pizza apparently has risen to its proper place in the world, for there are not too many ">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pinsky"> poet laureates wandering around here and there.

hunger for hot white
cheese stretched, bubbling tomato
poet's nose sniffs - ahhhhhh

This just in: Robert Pinksy, the incredibly accomplished poet, is judging the contest!

fugitive moment
of unctuous perfection
saucy, sexy, gone.

@strechycat and corbinski: I stand by that winning haiku today, same as I did in 2005. The 5-7-5 is not an absolute rule, merely a guideline. I quote from the almighty and all-knowing Wikipedia:

Due to the various views and practices today, it is impossible to single out any current style or format or subject matter as definitive "haiku." Nonetheless, some of the more common practices in English are:

* Use of three (or fewer) lines of about 17 or fewer syllables
* Use of a season word (kigo)
* Use of a cut or caesura (sometimes indicated by a punctuation mark) to contrast and compare, implicitly, two events, images, or situations

This gradual loosening of traditional standards, encouraged by such poet-critics as Bob Grumman, has resulted in the word "haiku" being applied to brief, mathematical "poems," ("mathemaku") and to visual poetry by Scott Helms. This attempt at stretching definitions of haiku can be considered excessive, but Grumman attempts to defend his position by pointing to an alleged blurring of definitional boundaries in Japan. Those cognizant of Japanese and the haiku scene in Japan dispute this claim.

Yours truly,
THE SUCKY EDITOR

Hot from Dom's oven
A circle of bubbling bliss.
The diet can wait

Still stuck in Boston.
Regina's Pizza beckons.
Moretti on tap.

Crisp pepperoni, (5)
Edge curled from heat, (4)
A chalice of sweet, hot oil. (7)

The "winner" up there is not a haiku at all - wtf?

editors, you suck
for choosing a botched haiku
as your contest champ