Times Haiku

Lololol, this website is great. According to its About page, these haiku were grabbed from various New York Times articles by an algorithm based on syllable count (but selected for the website by humans).

One. It's a neat trick to pull the right syllable count from text.
Two. It makes for an argument regarding the science of poetry.
Three. It's fun. See, folks, poetry is fun!
Four. It reinforces the fact that poetry surrounds us, all the time, in all places.
Five. It makes me wonder if at some future point, the human editors can be disregarded completely. An advanced program could learn and might be able to figure out from the human's early selections what makes something worthy, what makes a poem good. (And what would constitute that algorithm I'm curious to see.)

Or perhaps that is too science-fiction-y and this website is an amusing 5 minutes of your Internet-time and nothing more.

But it is cool, no?

My favorite haiku on the front page:

Crystals of sugar
cascaded because, of course,
the Duck has no lips.

Of course. Thanks, bot.