#0010 | my apologies
Submitted by Michael in Navan, Ireland.
Here’s Michael’s story:
“Hello.
I need a haiku to explain a leak in the ceiling in the apartment below me. I just cannot find the right way to summarize it in a haiku.
The flood started a few weeks ago when numerous showers were carried out in that area,
One of the many times I left the shower on too long and the water began to seep between the floor boards rapidly.
I didn’t think this was a problem initially, as the water flowed away seamlessly.
Ignorance is bliss.But one Sunday evening not so long ago
I received a complaint from the apartment complex manager
Insisting there was a leak in the apartment directly below me and that I have to come up with an apology to the
people who lurk below my feet.A figured a haiku would be the perfect way to slim it down to a reasonable apology.
Can you help me?”
We hope we helped, Michael.
4 folks have left comments on this post
i really like this one alot. it reminds me of those comcast television commercials they have now but in a good way.
the kid looks so sad and damp!
I had the opposite problem. A couple of years ago, I lived with two girls for too long. Snarls of their curly, coarse hair would clog the drain time and time again causing my shower waters to rise upward, not down below as nature intended.
I only wish those shedding girls had commissioned a haiku apology for me and my waterlogged calves.
Josh’s story is so descriptive it should receive a haiku itself.
I agree with Angora. No one likes drain-hair.