Dear contestants and others who wait with anticipation for the results of the The Dassler Effect’s 2nd Annual Haiku Contest to come out on Saturday,

As I was waiting to see whether my final judge would reply with results, I sent out a plea to several other literary friends, and as result have two other judges who are now judging. In the meantime, my final judge indicated that the results would be in tonight. So, as a result (no pun intended, but appreciated) now instead of 5 fine judges for this contest we have 7. I do not think this should matter to the contestants as you have not been seeing the poll numbers come in, so to speak, and, in my opinion, having more qualified judges only makes the final result stronger. And it is shaping up to be a most interesting result, indeed. I know, I am such a tease. Only a little while longer…