Celebrity Haiku Competition: ‘Guilty’ OJ Simpson

You know, a lot can happen in a week.

Well, actually, it can't. For the majority of us it's essentially the same old tiresome dirge from now until the end of infinity (or that cholesterol-induced coronary you're heading towards, pizza-boy). Luckily, however, there's always one regular treat that you can savour each and every Monday. That's right - hecklerspray's Celebrity Haiku Competition: the surefire way to forget all about the crippling pointlessness of modern existence!

This week we're taking a wee gander at sports-star courtroom favourite OJ Simpson.

But before all that kicks off, let's see who claimed victory in our last competition…

You may remember that we asked you - our precious lovely readers - to scribble out a haiku about the fact that Japan had gone and named a whole bloody day after Scientology-lovin' actor-type Tom Cruise.

The winner - interestingly - was the first entry. A gentleman called Pedro wrote in with this succinctly sharp tribute:

A whole day for you
To watch Top Gun and Cocktail?
Jesus fucking christ

Well done, Ped. You win our star prize. "What star prize is that?" many newcomers to the site will be asking.

A whole six-pack of Chewits, that's what.

You heard right. If you win this weeks comp, you could be chowing down on as many as fifty individually-wrapped fruit-flavoured sweets. And if that ain't the way to live life to the max, then we just plain don't wanna hear about it. Understand? We don't.

Anyway - on with the show. This week we'd like you to rub your poetry glands all nice-like and come up with a haiku on the following topical celebrity story:

Former sports star O J Simpson will be paid around $3.5 million for writing his book If I Did It, in which he will describe how he would have killed his ex-wife in an allegedly fictional manner. 

All you have to do is remember the golden rule of Haiku: five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables. And because we know that some of you just love the idea of an 'example', we're going to damn well give you one:

O J Simpson is

writing about his dead wife

but as a cash-in

Oh, come on. That was hurried. We know that you can all do better - and we want you to prove it by placing your entries in the comments box below.

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[story by C J Davies]