Five more than seven / When increased another five / Totals seventeen.

You can translate that into an aritmetic expression, or you can consider it a shout-out to Jason Deeble's Monster Haiku, which as a daily M-F strip, is on track to pass the number of strips of this comic sometime in the next couple weeks.

Sure I probably could've timed it to find when they'd be equal -- solving a system of equations and all that -- but I'd probably forget to post one day and just throw it all off.

Also check out this haiku strip from March 2014.