How to Write a Haiku

Today's NaPoWriMo prompt is to write poetry in the form of a to-do list of an unusual character/person. I decided to try the to-do list form, but I opted out of using an unusual character. 

How to Write a Haiku

By Candace Shultz

• Eat breakfast
• Drink coffee
• Write a poem
• Stare at a blank page for twenty minutes 
• Fall asleep
• Wake up
• Play Dr. Mario
• Watch Netflix
• Try to write a poem again
• Scratch out words with a pen
• Eat lunch
• Pay the bills
• Scroll through Facebook
• Attempt poetry for a third time
• Write a few lines
• Read it
• Hate it
• Erase it
• Then write a haiku

Writing eludes me. 

Or is it the other way? 

I escape writing.