Is it weird that I see the word "lit" and assumed your poem was going to be a sarcastic take on a Gen Z vocabuliary since they seem to love using "fire" and "lit" as synonyms for what old millennials like me would use the word "cool" for? At any rate, nice read. Haiku is underrated as a form.
This reminds me, tangentially, of a poem I was ruminating on that went basically: no light but in things lit And then I realized William Carlos Williams had already said this: "no ideas but in things"
Is it weird that I see the word "lit" and assumed your poem was going to be a sarcastic take on a Gen Z vocabuliary since they seem to love using "fire" and "lit" as synonyms for what old millennials like me would use the word "cool" for? At any rate, nice read. Haiku is underrated as a form.
Thank you! A sad commentary on the degradation of language.
This reminds me, tangentially, of a poem I was ruminating on that went basically: no light but in things lit And then I realized William Carlos Williams had already said this: "no ideas but in things"