
This is a hard haiku constraint because ALIBI is narrative-heavy. It drags in crime logic, excuse-making, and motive all at once, which can easily overpower the haiku’s brevity unless the poem builds a compact scene strong enough to hold it. Lari’s “His SPORT makes him CHAFE. / Says it’s AVIAN skin rash. / That’s his ALIBI.” is a good example of solving that well: the constraint words are absorbed into one ridiculous but coherent excuse, so ALIBI arrives as the natural reveal of the poem’s logic. Across the set, the stronger entries keep the target word active by making it serve accusation, manipulation, evasion, or comic justification rather than treating it as generic crime vocabulary.