The Carrots Can Wait: Why I Don’t Save the Best for Last
There is a particular bit of conventional wisdom surrounding food that I have never understood: save the best for last. Why? If there are three things on my plate and I love one of them, tolerate another, and begrudgingly accept the existence of the third, I am eating...
The Path to Somewhere: Embracing Obstacles
“Life is a journey, not a destination.” It’s one of those lines that has been repeated so often that it’s easy to stop hearing what it actually means. We tend to picture progress as something orderly: choose a direction, put one foot in front of the other, and...
Ep. 87 — Seventeen Syllables of Suffering: The Haiku Scam
Tired of people calling 17 syllables “genius”? So am I.
In this brutally honest, occasionally unhinged episode of Perfectly Poetic, Allen Mowery finally unleashes his pent-up frustration about the most overrated poetic form of all time: the haiku. From childhood worksheet trauma to seasonal name-dropping, syllable policing, AI-generated nonsense, and the myth of Bashō’s frog — no stone (or smooth river pebble) is left unskipped.