Traditionally, haiku must fit the following requirements:

1) They must juxtapose two ideas separated by a "cutting" phrase, or a phrase that changes the tone of the poem, a crux that shifts the narrative or contrasts the two ideas.

2) 17 syllables over three lines in the series 5-7-5.

3) A reference to nature.

The modern haiku stray from all three rules usually adhering to one or two, but that makes me wonder if it constitutes a haiku anymore. I wanted to capture the spirit of the haiku with a little clever wordplay of my own, attributing my poems to human nature.

Bring capitalist

I’ll pay fifty a head, cash

Watch them lining up

Hate, viral in mass

Even among unity

The world dies in love

The willfully deaf

Sit on shimmering gold thrones

Ruling ignorance