These are used from time to time in The Week in Poetry calendar when there is a day without any local area poetic events. Most of them are just plain silly, though they occassionally have some redeeming value (at least to the author).
Number 1 from 04/19/2001
No poetic stuff
was found to list here for you
enjoy the night off
Number 2 from 05/03/2001
Words fail to express
the sorrow I must report
poetry not found.
Number 3 from 05/17/2001
I sense a pattern
there is no poetry every
other Thursday.
Number 4 from 05/31/2001
Late spring rain brings growth
to the eager land as we
weep at words not said.
Number 5 from 06/21/2001
With luck this will be
the last time I have to fill
space with a haiku.
Number 6 from 07/13/2001
Nothing is certain in this life
some venues suck
we move on.
Number 7 from 08/16/2001
As with the change of seasons
poetry will once more return.
We wait.
Number 8 from 10/05/2001
Sorry no poetry tonight
but that's OK
Buffy is back.
Number 9 from 10/19/2001
I grow tired of these little, seventeen syllable, space fillers, man.
Number 10 from 02/15/2002
If life had fewer stumbling blocks
there would be less need for poetry.