Park Slope Bar Scribbles Up Coronavirus Closure Haiku Contest

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — Closed for pandemic,

A Park Slope bar stays busy,

Throws haiku contest.

Get ready to bust out some 5-7-5 syllable poems while stuck at home waiting out the new coronavirus. Freddy's Bar and Backroom is throwing an online haiku contest for its stir crazy bar patrons and the plain stir crazy.

The bar's coronavirus closure evidently is on the mind of at least one poet:

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"Corona bottle

glows in a dark bar, last call!

Corona virus," wrote contributor Nancy Drew.

Other wordsmiths penned odes to Freddy's itself, a joint named one of New York City's best dive bars:

"Freddy’s, oh Freddy’s!

I’ve missed your sweet tater tots.

And also the booze," wrote Laurel Lindahl.

A state order effectively shutting down bars to stop the coronavirus' spreadhit Park Slope saloons and their now-out-of-work staffs particularly hard. There are numerous active GoFundMe fundraisers to show support, including one for Freddy's.

Freddy's owners promise to reopen, according to the bar's website. And when the bar does they promise the haiku contest's winner — chosen by vote — will receive a prize.

"The winner gets a drinking prize (or a Drunk Prize-as we like to call it) when Freddy’s re-opens!" the website states.

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