A Haiku and an Equivoke

PUNgencies

by Paul Treatman


Formats

Softcover
$21.95
Hardcover
$31.95
E-Book
$3.99
Softcover
$21.95

Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 10/22/2013

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 310
ISBN : 9781491702116
Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 310
ISBN : 9781491702130
Format : E-Book
Dimensions : N/A
Page Count : 310
ISBN : 9781491702123

About the Book

These unique and magnificent haiku, each with an embedded pun or pun phrase, touch upon love, sports, sex, work, play, anger and many more human experiences, evoking giggles and/or groans. You will get a really good kick no matter how you will react.

Revise this haiku
And you’ll be arrested for
Disturbing the piece.

Hoping to purge his
Awful memories, dude drinks
Milk of Amnesia.

These haiku also embed punnery punchlines that relate to titles of well-known songs or films or Broadway shows. For example:

Casanova, as
He ages, is preparing
His own “bucket lust.”

Yiddish stage launches
New version of musical
As “My Fair Sadie.”

Geezer recalls his
Youth as he hums, “Love
Is a Many Splendoured Fling…”


About the Author

Paul Treatman spent most of his life in New York City, achieving his baccalaureate, master’s and Ph.D. degrees under the G.I. Bill of Rights. Deferring his youthful passions for drama and creative writing until his career as a New York educator was drawing to retirement, he acted in community theatre and film, and began writing haiku poetry. Treatman is biographied in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World; and is a World War II decorated combat medic. The author now resides in a senior retirement community in New Jersey, where he continues writing haiku, and is actively involved in local social, political and veterans’ affairs. He has two children, four grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren.