SCP-931

Its Item Number

Is SCP Nine Three One;

Object Class is Safe.

Heed these Procedures,

To keep the item secure—

Special Containment.

Kept at Site-19

In a Level 2 locker,

But no extra guards.

Free access to it

Is prohibited to most:

Need Third-tier clearance.

Effects are triggered

By some images of it—

Depends on angle.

Writing about it

Will always be affected,

Despite ignorance.

A Description of

SCP Nine Thirty-One:

It is a rice bowl.

White, with a blue band,

And a crackled blue pattern

All inside the bowl.

Three inches in height,

Four point five inches across.

(Metric doesn’t fit.)

No makers’ marks found;

Suspected to have been made

Late Nineteen Hundreds.

When viewed or handled,

The item causes people

To write in haiku.

(Not the classic sense:

Themes of nature aren’t needed,

Just Five-Seven-Five.)

Speech remains unchanged,

But trying to write or type

Ends up as haiku.

Exposure effects

Wear off within a few hours

(Varies by subject).

Anything written

About it— also haiku,

Even if absent.

If written by one

Ignorant of its effect,

They’re still affected.

Its effect appears

To be memetic in source—

Though not yet proven.

Evidence for this?

Those exposed who know haiku

Write “proper” haiku.

Most people exposed,

Who don’t know these requirements,

Just know the structure.

More Information

Is in audio format—

See Doctor Stevens.

They've tried transcribing

Using Voice Recognition…

Results looked all wrong.

Addendum for Nine

Three One: This anomaly

Was used to cross-test.

Considered useful

To further contain hazard,

To keep the world safe.

Details of cross-test:

This with Two Six Seven Three

Locked up in haiku.