Last week we linked to a story about Japanese business folk blowing off steam with some recreational vocational haiku. Now, we at Bookninja idolize our misappropriated Japanese heritage, at least the silly part, if not so much the monster porn part, so we put out the call for more cubicle farm haiku from our readres. It was surprising how many of you didn’t get the “work” part of the haiku challenge, but I’ll post a selection so far, regardless. The lines are still open if you want to add to this bounty of aphoristic human resources wisdom. So .

In the cubicle
a frown is easily wiped
off with a soft butt.

-Brenda Schmidt

1.
Barren cubicle
farm where only lichen grows.
Photobiont-brain.

2.
Orthopedic chair
essentially useless since
I slouch, chin in hand.

-Mélanie Grondin

Book review section
Diminished in newspaper
Blogs report sadly

-Paula Eisenstein

Students stare at me
Blank-eyed and incurious.
My words fall unheard.

-Anonymous

*7 Haiku for Coach Travellers*

Your lousy feet stink,
You’re crazy and I hate you.
Thank you, come again.

*
It’s too bad for you
You pissed your pants. Not your stop?
Too bad, too. Bye now.

*

Your child is ugly
And you have spoiled him rotten.
How can I help you?

*

I care not at all
For your sadsack life-stories:
I’m paid to be here.

*

You can’t have coffee–
We open at 6:30
And I’m having mine.

*

If you knew the time
Of your arrival today,
Would you feel better?

*

No smoking onboard;
Did you think that life was fair?
Maybe. But I’m not.

-Zach Wells

My job is pointless.
I don’t do a thing all day.
No one notices.

-Doug Stuart

I often forget
the important things in life.
What was I saying?

-N. Keyser

Joy! Celebration!
I will sleep tonight knowing
I met the milestone.

answering the phone
we try to sound cheerful, like
we are not in pain

The sign on the door
says meeting in progress. But
this is not progress.

cleaving my pale breasts
a fiery identity
on thick red lanyard

-Jennica Harper

Old men eye younger
men’s wives, while office staff’s flirt-
ing fucks with their minds.

-Tracy Hamon

It’s good stuff, guys. Let’s keep them coming. There’s a ‘Ninja t-shirt in it for the winner. We’ll have a vote from a shortlist. You’ll be so cool you won’t be able to stand yourself.