Where the Sidewalk Ends Haiku

Here are some more haiku drawn from Shel Silverstein's poem "Where the Sidewalk Ends."

They-- the there wind blows,

slow pace the winds, winds-- And with

the walk place measured.

The rests bends, rests walks

asphalt pits. The sidewalk and

children where we walk.

Mostly, though, selecting based on word frequency gives me a lot of 'and', 'to', and 'for' in the haiku.  Especially 'and':

and And flowers where

Let sidewalk is sidewalk And

For peppermint to

chalk-white place And and

there the To slow the And grows

soft The us For the

I was hoping that incorporating word frequency would give me something slightly better than just including random words, by somehow sticking a little bit "truer" to the text, but it clearly comes with its own set of drawbacks.