It was a very late night, and I was tired. I'd been working on a scene from A Piece of Sky and was trying to finish it before I brewed myself a cup of tea. I had way too many windows open on my desktop, and I decided to close a few. That's when disaster struck. I decided to share my pain with my three best friends on the 'net at the time (Amand-r, Dana Woods, and Jam-wired) by sending them this little poem:

Oh for want of tea, a fic was lost
Though the kitchen's two steps away
I'm having trouble staying awake
long enough to remember
not to double click on close
and lose all my changes....

Amand-r happened to be on a haiku kick that night, thanks in part to Dana. (Go read The Princess and the Pixie and you'll understand why.) She wrote in response: A haiku about locking my keys in the car outside in the driveway of my own home.
(Autobiographical.  Literally. I made a funny.  Hee hee.)  

The driver's door shut;
One terminal click of doom,
And I thought: Oh Shit.

A haiku about the AAA guy who unlocked the door to my car outside in the driveway of my own home. [Alice's note: Brad is the name Amand-r gave her car.]

You attack Brad fast,
Probing, incessant, and fierce
With your little hook.

A haiku about writing the haiku about locking my keys in the car outside in the driveway of my own home.

This is very hard
I ponder my sanity...
Oooh, lookie, Skittles...

I'll stop now.

to which I replied:

::snickers::

Haiku me baby
Because I can't get enough
Of that thing you do.

and then Amand-r wrote:

A WAKA FOR ALICE:

So it begins
Too much Arizona,
lost data.  Whoops. Your bad.

don't hurt your melon
as you bang it
on the keyboard, chica

Waka: 31 syllable poem....heehee  I counted this like fifteen times....

and then Dana wrote:

So, you think I'll sit haiku-free while you two have all the freaking fun?  Who do you think i am?  Aheam.........

Haiku about losing the first beta I did for Raine's latest....

No, don't save it there
Let me just go up a level
Oh no!!  I closed it!

A haiku about an awful tasting cigarette..

Burning in my lungs
A nasty taste in my mouth
The filter's loose.  Fuck

A haiku for when I discovered my phone was broken...

The machine clicked on
But the phone did not signal
To the Wiz I go

A haiku for when I read your haikus...

These two chicks are nuts
Must be why I love them so
Aw, pass the Folgers

A haiku on coffee...

Ah, you smell so good
With your roast and your toast but
*Damn,* you taste like crap

And I shall waste your time with one more..

Jam is my Goddess
A webpage for Krycek. oooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Feel orgasmic bliss

and then Jam wrote:

Mmm...I'm feeling left out now...

 Three friends on a list
 Make fun of stupidity
Where is [censored name of person]?

Yeah, yeah, it sucks.  Umm...let me try one for my love of slash...

 I like to read slash
 I really love to read slash
 Give me some slash, yeah!

 Ah, man...I'd tell myself not to quit my day job, but since I don't  have one,  it doesn't really matter...

I have a dead fish
In ten gallon tank, sitting
All my fish are dead

I had bought them new
Ah, the new fish always die
Why do I bother?