That's what the website Fiscal Haiku invites you to do, namely "express your thoughts and concerns about the state of America's finances in the form of this most ancient and concise of international literary forms." Haiku, or at least the version as most of us know it, is three lines of five, seven and five syllables.

Fiscal Haiku is on Twitter, too.

Here's a housing haiku from a San Diego woman:

Home values are down

Foreclosures are plentiful

I still cannot Buy

I see some Maryland submissions, though none from Baltimore. Here's one from a Greenbelt man:

Work'd for fifty years

401(k), zero K

Work for fifty more

And by a D.C. 'burbs guy:

Lament of the wind -

"Don't spend money you don't have."

"You bloody idjits."

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