Last year, in response to top news stories, thousands of haikus were crowdsourced and the collection was posted here at Doom Haikus.
For context, the maker Eli Holder says:
Back in March, I was feeling overwhelmed with 2020's terrible news, and I asked myself: What if, instead of gloomy news… we just had gloomy haikus?! Wouldn't that be better?! So I wrote a script to post each day's top news stories to Mechanical Turk, asking turkers to summarize each article as a haiku. It's been running (almost) all year. About 2,000 people have responded and there are now 2,700 haikus, forever memorializing the worst year of our lives, as anxious sets of 5, 7, 5 syllables. You might ask (rightly): Why would anyone need this? Mild entertainment? Masochistic nostalgia? An unusual dataset for text summarization? I'm honestly not sure, but it was fun to make!
Here a few gloomy ones:
We are all Dying
Free Treatment May Help US all
We Will Find Out Soon
A Man was Murdered
Because of His Skin Color
All Black Lives Matter
A Job that Means You
Have No Food and No Real Home
Is not a Real Job.
