Writer's block not fun?
Try using this brand new technique
called thinking. It helps.
There's a nice bait-and-switch running through this one. The opening line sets up sympathy, the kind of gentle question you'd expect before some genuinely useful advice. Then the second line promises a technique, brand new, dressed up like it's about to deliver a breakthrough. The reveal in line three is the whole joke: thinking, the thing writers are supposedly already doing, offered as if it were a discovery. That gap between the buildup and the deadpan payoff is where the poem lives.
The dry closer, it helps, seals it. No exclamation, no wink, just flat confirmation, which is funnier than any punchline would be. There's no season imagery here, no traditional haiku mood, and that absence is part of the point. It borrows the form's brevity purely for comic timing. The compression forces the joke to land in as few words as possible, which is exactly what makes it snap instead of drag.
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