There was SO MUCH talking about the Iowa caucuses in the days and weeks and months leading up to them, and also in the hours and hours and hours that followed. But now that the spotlight has shifted, I’m going through a slight episode of withdrawal. And I wasn’t that interested in the contest to begin with! You can imagine how it must be for the political junkies.
Going (finally) for economy with one final spasm of five syllable / seven syllable / five syllable verbiage, we find ourselves face-to-face with unattributed haiku for each of the Iowa Republicans – Bachmann, Perry, Gingrich, Paul, Santorum and Romney. Plus a bonus verse for one who was recently a front runner.
Can you tell whose is whose?
It is very hard
To smile like this all the while
You are hating mePayback time is nigh.
To Google me is a sin
I will not forgiveIowa Haiku
Sounds unconstitutional
The founders objectNo one comprehends
the smartest man in the room
Not even himselfA pause to assess
What it means to spend millions
I forget what forThe dream is over
Iron Lady USA
No White House for you.The difference between
“ended” and just “suspended”
Could surprise us all.
Talking points are brief.
Writing these is so simple
You should make one too.
Trail Baboon 
Sweet relief for now.
Politics just makes me tired.
The year will be long.
Morning all.. back to the real world after a couple of days of staying away from computer and tv. I haven’t followed enough of Iowa (nor have I watched any news yet although I’m guessing by having just read yesterday’s Trail that I’ll be happy when I do) to be able to figure out who belongs to what haiku. I was just having a conversation w/ a friend yesterday and I talked about how I’m looking forward to 2012 except for the fact that it’s an election year. And I don’t care how many plundits expound on that fact that negative ads “work” — I detest them!
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By the way — very nice Trail while I was in my self-imposed exile from electronics. You baboons are an impressive bunch. And nice to see you again, Crystal Bay. Lovely tribute to our Steve!
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A Republican
And a Libraterian
What do you call that
He was the speaker
His voice was loud and clear
Now an also ran
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Compared to the others
President Obama
Incumbent looks great
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If they want to form
a circular firing squad
It’s alright with me.
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Oh! A circular firing squad? Well, I am guessing they all believe in the death penalty and it does seem they are ready to kill each other.
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Well, Ron Paul is againest the death prenalty, so I supose he couldn’t join the circular firing squad, but the others are in favor of it or have no position so they might be able to participate.
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The phrase “circular firing squad” was one I heard some pundit or other use earlier this week, and he was speaking metaphorically. If you take it that way, it seems to me Ron Paul is free to blast away with the rest of them.
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Okay. I was just joking. However, maybe a wild west candidate like Rick Perry, who lost out in Iowa, might like to try his luck as part of a real cuircular firing squad.
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Lovely
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I found this one written on a john wall. I wonder who wrote it?
I’d never spread rumors
But Mitt, if truth must be told,
Is an effin’ moderate!
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But that’s only an effin’ rumor although it probably came from someone sitting on a throne.
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Finally, Ron Paul
Can no longer be ignored
By the media
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Sixty here today
Global warming is quite real
Hot air in Des Moines
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Good one!
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gingrich, santorum,
romney, bachmann, paul, perry
they are the punchline
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LOL.
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I miss the days of
Humphrey, Wellstone, and Carter
Champions for all
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They will do great harm
Children of the dark abound
Lightness wins the day
Kochroaches burrow
loving untilled gray matter
Consciousness postponed
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I’m just wondering how only 5.4% of Iowans voting for one of these clowns can effectively
overwhelm the cable news cycle 24/7 several days running?? The MSM fails again!!
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Good question — clearly common sense and the election process are not on good terms!
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No female prez from
Minnesota this year is
the decree from God.
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tee hee
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the Iowa gig
doth reek and smell like a pig
it’s time to go home
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Amen to that.
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This is the year that
I will be especi’ly glad
I have no TV.
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Poetic baboons
can haiku effortlessly
all the live-long day
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They been a working
and a haikuing like crazy
all the live-long day
Actually most of the day I have been goofing off.
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me too.
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for me – it was not effortless.
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democratic hope
republican scare tactics
We choose which ones right
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That’s the reason why
We call it democracy
People choose what’s right
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That was supposed to go under tim’s…
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Words, I’m terrible
I mean it uh they it was
Can’t do it YEEAAAA
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Ben, I think you are very good at writing comments. Just think of a haiku as a comment that is put into a certain form that takes a little time to organize. I don’t claim to be good at composing haiku poems, but I like giving them a try. That might work for you.
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I was trying to make a slight nod towards Howard Dean but I think you’d have to be inside my head to catch that.
(Insert line about jokes and cats…)
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Right, left, up or down,
Which way does the wind blow there?
It is all hot air.
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On to New Hampshire.
Pundits will explain to us
why we should still care.
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Amen to that (again).
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