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For the second day, the air quality in Clifton
Springs is awful due to wildfires in Canada. The situation is even worse
in New York City and elsewhere. Looking out my window, I
thought of writing a haiku.
My mind immediately went to the song “Blame
Canada” from the film South Park:
Bigger, Longer & Uncut. “Blame Canada” is only four
syllables, however, making it unsuitable for the third line of my poem.
I then decided to make the poem more personal—I substituted “my” for
“one’s” in the second line—which allowed my be prefix “I” to “blame
Canada.”
— LED, 7/16/2026 |
