Haikus I Wrote While Working in Advertising

2007 and beyond

Typically written in-the-moment.

It can’t be like this
but it can’t not be like this.
We are zen masters.

- Ad meeting haiku

Think like the client.
We’ll be vindicated then.
See you tomorrow!

- Ad meeting haiku

Shit job, good lunch spots.
I run through the summer rain
forgetting purpose.

- Freelance haiku

Boy, you’re expensive
the bamboo forest pretends
it doesn’t want rain

- Freelance haiku

Totally briefed!
Seek the soil that lightning struck
maybe there’s some left.

- Strategy haiku

Oh it all checks out—
we polled all the interns
This is the future.

- Strategy haiku

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Partner Quotes
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Shut Up, We’re Blogging
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Zac Efron for AT&T
A spot I wrote with Zac Efron that is somehow crazy meta, crazy bland, and just plain crazy.