Three haikus in honor of Haruki Murakami

by Haiku Murakami

I

without sex without
investigation rain dark
her middle morning

II

ears could himself tense
refrigerator person
want old sensation

III

consciousness breathing
beer wife cat killing children
hypothesis world

Haiku Murakami was created by Song Hia and uses a vocabulary curated from a concordance of the most frequently used words in Haruki Murakami’s novels (English translations). Haiku Murakami leverages the RiTa library for processing. The code for the haiku generator is available at https://github.com/SongHia/haiku_murakami, and new poems are available via the Haiku Murakami Twitterbot.