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Today 10/29/25

Emmerder (inf.: to bug/irritate (the shit out of))

Your posed victimhood
bugs the shit out of me; stand
up and activate

The Story Behind Daily Haiku:

I meet with two other playwrights every Sunday morning at 7:30 a.m. for what we call “Accountability Club.” The intention is to have a weekly space in which to share new work, get feedback, and be personally accountable to the craft of writing. Lately, we’ve noticed that we have been slipping in measuring up to accountability. Mood, work, lack of sleep, the need to do deep Ancestry.com research - the usual details of everyday living - have been preempting actual writing.

In the spirit of recalibrating my accountability scale, I am writing a Haiku every morning (except Sunday, a rest day) using this methodology: Pull out the dictionary, do a random flip-page-finger-point, and use the word chosen to build the verse. Since I no longer have an English dictionary, but I do have a French one (le Robert micro), the word is selected from there and translated into English. Kind of a nice way to review vocabulary, too.