BART engages LA Metro in Twitter haiku battle
Oh shit, pop the popcorn, you guys! Here it all is, in the order in which it transpired.
We challenge @metrolosangeles to a transit poetry slam. Haikus only.
Your move, LA.
— SFBART (@SFBART) June 24, 2016
Believe it or not
There's a subway in LA
(Transit, not sandwich)@metrolosangeles— SFBART (@SFBART) June 24, 2016
Remember the days
When the federal gas tax
Kept pace with pop. growth?@metrolosangeles— SFBART (@SFBART) June 24, 2016
Accept our challenge
Your silence is deafening
NorCal is best Cal@metrolosangeles— SFBART (@SFBART) June 24, 2016
Metro palms kiss sun
Tracks to sand, mountain, stars
BART has hammer pants #transithaiku @SFBART— Metro (@metrolosangeles) June 24, 2016
Seventy-three wins
This was your reality
Yet no ring to show@SFBART #wewentthere— Metro (@metrolosangeles) June 24, 2016
Pied Piper Hooli
Tech bros in Dolores Park
We just chill and ride@SFBART— Metro (@metrolosangeles) June 24, 2016
Metro palms kiss sun
Tracks to sand, mountain, stars
BART has hammer pants #transithaiku @SFBART— Metro (@metrolosangeles) June 24, 2016
SNAP!
BART runs trains on time
Better than a traffic jam
(It's five, seven, five)— SFBART (@SFBART) June 24, 2016
Seventy-three wins
This was your reality
Yet no ring to show@SFBART #wewentthere— Metro (@metrolosangeles) June 24, 2016
#weaksauce
BART gives you a ride
To your favorite football team
What say you, Metro?#transithaiku #@metrolosangeles— SFBART (@SFBART) June 24, 2016
Gloves, off
Hypothetically
If I land at LAX
Then what do I do?😉#transithaiku @metrolosangeles
— SFBART (@SFBART) June 24, 2016
#OMFG
But let's be honest
Tracks to Santa Monica
Make us quite jealous#transithaiku @metrolosangeles— SFBART (@SFBART) June 24, 2016
Awwww …
Pied Piper Hooli
Tech bros in Dolores Park
We just chill and ride@SFBART— Metro (@metrolosangeles) June 24, 2016
Got us there!
Do you think one day
We will meet in the middle
In Coalinga?#transithaiku @metrolosangeles— SFBART (@SFBART) June 24, 2016
Playing nice?
We food truck tacos
You great Mission burritos
New York is hungry@SFBART @MTA— Metro (@metrolosangeles) June 24, 2016
Really? Dragging NYC into this?
Scientology
Won't save you from the traffic
Ask John Travolta#transithaiku @metrolosangeles— SFBART (@SFBART) June 24, 2016
Dayum!
Don't tell @MTA
About the weather out here
They can't sit with us#transithaiku @metrolosangeles— SFBART (@SFBART) June 24, 2016
Oh, hell yeah!
Pride is this weekend
WeHo: wannabe Castro
Sorry not sorry@metrolosangeles #transithaiku
(Also we open early at 7 Sunday; take BART!)— SFBART (@SFBART) June 24, 2016
Play nice, BART!
Sleep tight, dear Metro
The BARTmobile is afoot
It sees into souls#transithaiku @metrolosangeles pic.twitter.com/qRHzLBDNG3— SFBART (@SFBART) June 24, 2016
Boom!
And it all ends with a nice gesture:
Thanks for being a good sport @metrolosangeles. Next we shall do battle in Shakespearean sonnet! #ababcdcdefefgg #transitpoetry
— SFBART (@SFBART) June 24, 2016
MORE OF THIS, PLEASE!?