Nerd Haiku (4 page)

Rage and confusion.

The world is turned upside down.

Hugo Award snub.

The birds are singing

on this great Alderaan day!

Hey, what's that in the—

Only member of

the Alderaan Optimists

Society.
Sigh.

Like a Romulan

cloaking device covering

my soul, I am shy.

Pocket protector,

you keep my chest safe and warm,

yet my heart grows cold.

I sit on sidelines,

but unlike the quarterback

I rock at
Madden.

I'm not myopic,

and I play football . . . somewhere

in the Multiverse.

You prefer games of

strength and agility. I

prefer
Game of Thrones.

I'm well prepared for

a zombie apocalypse.

Are you, pretty boy?

Tell Ryan Seacrest

January 1st now starts

The New 52.

1, 2, tap-tap-tap.

I'm obsessive compulsive.

1, 2, tap-tap-tap.

5 7 5 hard.

Structure too strict for art form.

Hulk no like haiku.

Teach the children well:

4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3 is

the way to watch them.

Star Trek
movie rule:

The reboot notwithstanding,

evens are better.

Your fingers are too

fat for small touch screens. Meek shall

inherit the earth.

Feel bad for Pluto.

His master's a mouse, and now

he's not a planet.

2001 was

more Kubrick's
The Shining
than

a space odyssey.

Speech Therapist! To

Dagobah must you come. Bad

syntax do I have.

Red Dead Redemption

and two piece and a biscuit.

Big Saturday night.

Must keep my nerd cred.

I've never played D&D.

Don't say
anything.

Allergic to hay,

but Farmville lets me claim that

I am outdoorsy.

My fear of Mott's stems,

over the rainbow, from those

apple trees in Oz.

It's lonely, but it's

better to be feared than loved.

My
World of Warcraft.

Game Stop offered me

a job because I know more

than the current staff.