Excerpt Answer: Because they take everything literally!
Guessing Game: Poem Form Preferred By Serial Killers
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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is the managing editor of Autostraddle and a lesbian writer of essays, fiction, and pop culture criticism living in Orlando. She is the former managing editor of TriQuarterly, and her short stories appear in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Joyland, Catapult, The Offing, The Rumpus, Cake Zine, and more. Some of her pop culture writing can be found at The A.V. Club, Vulture, The Cut, and others. When she is not writing, editing, or reading, she is probably playing tennis. You can follow her on Twitter or Instagram and learn more about her work on her website.
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My knowledge of poem forms is very limited and I gotta say, crushed to see that “haikuuuuuu” is not a word
Same lol
lol lol
Update: it apparently is a word just not the correct one 😂 I appreciate the freedom to enter “haikuuuuuu”!!!
Lolol
i 100% cheated because my brain simply does not contain the necessary knowledge here, let alone a catalog of words with that many letters in them, but: nicely done, i get it
I truly did not know that was a poem form, so I learned something today!
Same! Didn’t watch the show but approve of the writers’ insinuation.
if people are struggling with this one, googling “poetry forms” might unlock something 😇
Was going to suggest the same thing. That’s what I did and it totally worked.
Finally my useless knowledge of poetry from too many lit degrees comes into handy!!
Poem Form for Serial Killers
🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢
⚫️⚫️🟢⚫️⚫️🟢🟢⚫️🟡⚫️
⚫️🟢🟡🟡⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️🟢⚫️
🟡⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️🟡🟡⚫️🟢
Hah. Had to google “types of poetry” after I tried the only 10 letter word related to poetry that I could think of. But once I saw the list, I knew.
Poem Form for Serial Killers
🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢
⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️
🟡🟡⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️🟡🟡⚫️
Got this in one try thanks to the NYT Spelling Bee a while back, where I learned that this word was not just a proper noun :D
English lit degree finally comes in
Took me forever and a day to figure this one out, but when I did…
Poem Form for Serial Killers
🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢
12 seconds. What useless knowledge that finally came in handy and what a great pun!
Poem Form for Serial Killers
🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢
Poem Form for Serial Killers
🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢
⚫️⚫️🟡🟢🟡⚫️⚫️⚫️🟡⚫️
🟡⚫️⚫️⚫️🟡⚫️⚫️🟡⚫️⚫️
🟡🟢⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️🟡⚫️🟢
⚫️🟡🟢🟡🟡⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️🟢