"The Edge", a humorous one-inch-wide daily feature in the Oregonian's Living section, announced a contest last week to create "Hai-Choos", defined as haikus on the topic of allergies. Being both a hack poet and an allergy sufferer, I submitted three pretty good hai-choos, and one of them was chosen as an "honorable mention" today:

Call me a felon
Tried to stop runny nose with
Pseudoephedrine

Life doesn't get any better than that. Or maybe it does.