Presenting Nero's haikus

I decided to start a project that involves the online social phenomenon twitter. For those who don’t know, twitter is a micro blogging service that allows users to send “tweets” that are no more than 140 characters. The only rule of this project will follow the only rule of twitter, which is to fit everything into 140 characters or less. I choose the form of haiku because they’re the easiest form of poems to fit into a twitter message, and thus follow the one hundred forty rule this project is based on.

In the future I would like to have everything cataloged and eventually published. I don’t know how many tweets could fill a book, but for now I’m only focusing on the writing part of the project.

I don't know if anyone else has done this already (I don't think I'm the only one who's doing this), but in the future I would like to collaborate with other twitter poets and have some sort of publication released based on this. Of course assuming that this is as widespread that I think it is.

Note: While the project is titled “Nero's haiku,” not all of these poems are true haiku's or haiku's at all. Some of the “haiku” are missing a syllable or has a syllable too many, and some are just based off the idea of a haiku. Also, the plural for "haiku" is actually "haiku." If it sounds weird blame the Japanese.

Here is where the project is: http://twitter.com/nero86
If anyone wants to subscribe please feel free to do so.

These are some extra haiku's Ive been working with. Mind you, this is all just for fun, so don't get offended by them. And again, not all of these are text book haiku's.

If I could write one thing
It would be a tale no one has heard of
It would be about me.

The noise of TV
Drowns out my thoughts
I don’t feel like turning it off.
I just turned it down.

An epic poem
Want to write a sestina
Because I’m so bored

Haikus about nothing
On electronic ink
Inspired by Jack Kerouac

A self indulgent
Anti altruistic man
Sits in his bedroom

And make you read it
For you are his twitter
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

Oh, and the current listen can be found on Yu0tube: Jet-Look What You've done