We recently covered proof of negligence in my torts class at the University of Washington. I gave my students an optional assignment: write a haiku about the reading (pages 238-67 of the 12th edition of Prosser). Here is sampling of their efforts, complete with kigo. Enjoy!

 

Winter is coming
Dangerous like icy roads,
Bananas and grapes.

 

No—don’t cry, they said
Not over milk that’s been spilled
but K-Mart will cry

 

Fall’s weary pattern
Of darkness, of rain and death
It speaks for itself.

 

Beautiful fall day
But watch for dark bananas
Lurking on the floor

 

On the ground of stores
Peels of bananas do drop
Like the leaves of fall

 

She just didn’t see
Warning cones at H.E. Butt
Grape fall made her nuts

 

Pizza, milk, brown fruit,
Doesn’t this only happen
on Cartoon Network?

 

Goddard and Anjou
Injured in a Boston fall
Both appeal a peel.

 

Credits, in order of appearance: Sandra Richani, Jenna Zwang, Mo Johnston, Rachael Wallace,  Eric Forner, Carolyn Krol, Ross Tanaka, Anonymous.  Thanks to these and the other student-poets and to Concurring Opinions for letting me post.

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