Poetry Lin Motion
Posted at 10:29 AM on February 20, 2012
by Laura Yuen
(3 Comments)
Filed under: Food, Minneapolis
You might be thinking, "Enough with the Jeremy Lin puns already!"
One Asian supermarket and deli in Minneapolis wants you to have some literary fun with the NBA's sudden star -- in the form of haiku.
On its Facebook page, United Noodles announced it will award a Knicks No. 17 jersey to the best writer who can reference both Lin and the grocery in the Japanese poetic form. For those of you who don't remember the rules you learned in fifth grade, haiku comprises three lines totaling 17 syllables -- five, seven, and five, respectively.
It's harder than it looks. Here's my desperate field-goal attempt:
United Noodles
Concocts Taiwanese beef soup
Lin-finite pleasures
Sharpen your pencils and have at it. Deadline is March 1.
In the meantime, check out this brilliant "SNL" sketch from over the weekend about the media's cringe-worthy blunders referring to Lin's race, including some pretty tasteless jokes and an exhausting barrage of puns. I, for one, am co-opting the term "Amasian."
Comments (3)
"Concocts Taiwanese beef soup"... "Lin-finate pleasures". Love it! We'll add it to the compiled list that we'll publish in the store. Let's hope this lin-spires others to write creative haikus!
Noodles to nourish /
persistence and resilience./
Honor your hoop dreams.
Thanks Susanna! We'll add it to the submissions for consideration.
Lucy Schneeman
United Noodles, Inc.
Marketing Manager
@unitednoodles
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