We asked you, our wonderful audience, for your versions of the American Sentence. Allen Ginsberg, inventor of the American Sentence, felt that the haiku didn’t work as well in English. Ginsberg decided to remove the line structure of the haiku and create poems which only had one requirement: 17 syllables total. These syllables could be arranged in as many or as few sentences as possible, but they did not have to adhere to any sort of line count, freeing the poem up for the idiosyncrasies of English phonemes. We’ve compiled 15 of our favorite American Sentences and haikus from you!