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BORN AGAIN HAIKU
THE AMERICAN SENTENCE

Gerald A. McBreen

The Japanese haiku has been Americanized. Stretched out of its rigid form of seventeen syllables in three lines of five, seven, five. It is now liberated to a single line, seventeen syllable sentence, with inflections cascading in random order. Allen Ginsberg is given credit for evolving the form from haiku and titled it an American sentence. Uke haiku it uses just a few words to enlighten and delight the reader.
One of the charms of the American sentence is that it is not limited to seasons or nature. Another, is its simplicity. Almost anyone can write one. In the samples below I have married wit and wisdom in an attempt to infuse some old fashion humor into some old time religion and come up with some good old American sentences.
I’m dying to untangle the dilemma between heaven and hell.
Silly Noah, thinks he’s going to grow up to be a boat builder. .
St. Patrick should have driven the snakes out of the Garden of Eden.
Charles Darwin can trace his ancestors back to royalty, King Kong.
Very few people believe it but St. Bernard really was a dog.
Trouble in Paradise started when Eve served spare ribs and apple sauce.
An atheist standing outside the norm, feeling alienated

(Allen Ginsberg, American poet, 1926-1997)

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