Scalzi's Weekend Assignment

Okay....Here's the Blogfather's latest assignment, and I am all over it!

Weekend Assignment  #14: Write a haiku about your most cherished snack food or carbonated beverage.

That's right, a poem about your rapturous enjoyment of junk food. Come on, you're Americans (most of you). If we know anything about Americans, it's that we loooooove our junk food. So why not express it? In Haiku form?

But wait, you say. I'm all for expounding my love of sugar-and-fat-laden foods, but how do I write a haiku? Well, writing a haiku is simple: It has three lines, and each line has a certain number of syllables:

First five syllables;
Seven syllables come next,
And then five once more.

Now, technically speaking, a traditional haiku should also reference weather or the seasons in some way, but I think it's a little much to write about snack foods and the season in seventeen syllables, so we'll ignore that -- but if you want, you can write about snack foods and the seasons for extra credit. For example:

Raspberry Zingers
Unnatural red tinge, like
Nuclear fall leaves.

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Here's mine........ahem....

Iced Diet Pepsi,

Aspartame, Bubbles, Caffeine,

Jolts me all seasons.

I never was able to develop a taste for coffee, so for years my drug of choice has been Pepsi.  Of course I had to resort to the diet stuff when I hit my late 30's, to avoid those extra calories.  My father, a trained drug and alcohol counselor, says that I have all of the addictive traits of an alcoholic, but substitute the alcohol with Diet Pepsi. 

It's so true....I don't know how I could go without it for a day.  ::shuddering at the thought::

Hello...I'm Lisa and I am a Pepsiholic..................

photo from dietpepsi.com