A Haiku and an Equivoke

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.

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

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.