NPR wants your Twitter poetry. Calm yourself.

That insatiable desire to yawn you just felt by reading the letters "NPR" is a natural reaction to the hushed, baby-whisper, dulcet voices that come from their on-air personalities.

Now, to really amp the excitement level, NPR wants your poetry in honor of National Poetry Month. Not just any poetry, though. They only want Twitter poetry. NPR even has firm ground rules, including that you can't write an epic poem and take a photo of it as an attachment, nor can you involve art in your work. They only want 140 characters of poetry--in essence, a haiku.

To submit a poem via Twitter, they've given it the hashtag #NPRpoetry, which is almost as sleep-inducing a hashtag as their on-air programming.

Somewhere, the great haiku writer Matsuo Basho just passed out from boredom. And that's sad, as he's been dead for hundreds of years.