Woe is all of us today, possibly spending all of it standing in a long post office line waiting to pay homage to the IRS. Entrants to the Denver Post $25 Haiku Contest submitted many thoughts about the issue of “taxes.” Dick Stahl of Highlands Ranch took the long view:
taxes are like worms —
they have been around so long
they overtake death
Read more haiku at . You can also go to denver . to have The Haiku Guy, our avatar of verse, read aloud to you. If it all makes you feel like you’ve got something to say in a 5-7-5 poetry form, enter a one-stanza haiku at lifestyle@denverpost.com or file it at . Don’t forget to include your name and hometown. Our favorite wins a $25 gift certificate to the Tattered Cover Book Store.
This week’s topic is: recycling.
The deadline is midnight Thursday. Good luck, and start writing.
