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Here’s a job far too big for the Haiku Sheriff, or his deputies:

 

YourCongress.com proudly states:

HAIKUS [sic]

 

Nothing says the U.S. Congress like Japanese poetry.

You can read our hilarious Congressional Haikus for free by  visiting the YourCongress.com Congressional Directory, selecting the Member of Congress whose haiku you want to read, and then scrolling down to the “Haiku” section of their profile. There’s a haiku for every Member of Congress and delegate (DC, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, and U.S. Virgin Islands).

Can we be frank, here?  Not only are the selections not haiku or senryu,

they are not funny.  We found the page “thanks” to a Google referral that we

traced back to the YourCongress page on Senator Sarbanes.  Here’s the proffered

haiku:

 

 

Once a Rhodes Scholar
Senator for a long time
which sport did he do?

 

          [f/k/a Ed. Disclaimer: this is not haiku!] 

 

Here are the so-called “haiku” for my State’s Senators:

 

Charles Schumer  “schumerMug”

 

Issue of the day
Chuck will have something to say
not camera shy

 

 

 

Sen. Clinton

 

Black pants uniform
You’re in the Senate, not jail
That was the White House  

 [f/k/a Ed. Disclaimer: this is not haiku!]

 

The f/k/a Gang would gladly pay higher taxes to increase the budget

of the Haiku Sheriff, who could probably operate successfully worldwide

from right here in the Empire State.

 

  Perhaps Chuck Schumer or AG Eliot Spitzer will take up

this crusade.  There are a lot of haiku poets in New York State — and

we vote!  (update: As pointed out at Point of Law, on Oct. 13, 2005, Mr.

Spitzer and his staff should have some extra time on their hands — freeing

up resources to police against deceptive and fraudulent haiku claims.)

 

 

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  by dagosan:   

cold autumn rain —

spotting three yellow slickers

she smiles

 

[Oct. 12, 2005]