Edward Lear was an artist as well as a poet, and he also illustrated his own poems. Haiku is another popular type of short form poetry, which comes from Japan. Like a limerick, a Haiku also ...

So I need to lighten up. And to do that I am going to harken back to an old VEB tradition: writing haikus. Often about baseball. Or related to it. Somehow. Breaking it down into the 5-7-5.