Edku: April 1996

Move backwards to March 1996.

1.
Disco inferno:
"Burn, baby, burn." In Quezon,
Hundred sixty dead.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

2.
Clinton campaign chief
Phones Iran. Arms for hostage?
No. "Take Hillary."

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

3.
Campaign sea map warns
Of Doledrums, Whitewater, and
Shallow ideas.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

4.
Illegals beat up.
Camera zooms in on cops.
Hey--it's Stacy Koon!

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

5.
China barks. Taiwan
Yaps back. But the hand of trade
Remains unbitten.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

6.
At the Gdansk shipyard
You can blame the President
For a blown circuit.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

7.
Sonny in Congress.
Cops pull "Rodney King" again.
And the Beat Goes On.

--Martin H. Booda, booda@datasync.com

8.
Unabomber waits
in Montana Paradise
...should have fled to Guam

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

9.
Unabomber says:
"Technology sucks! Ban it!"
(... well, except for bombs...)

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

10.
Unabomber lived
on SPAM, venison, tuna.
Mystery now solved!

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

11.
L.A. law men know:
"Videos are not our friends"
...but keep forgetting

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

12.
The Hammer comes down
His palace sold, a dream dies.
Guess he "Can't touch this!"

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

13.
Ron Brown, others died
Because 2K GPS
nixed for toilet seat

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

14.
Right-wing extremists
flock to mountains in Northwest
close to the left coast!

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

15.
Thin-skinned President.
But, used to call Imus show,
told stories on self.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

16.
Montana glistens,
Crystalline transformation.
(Nitrate blows, not snow.)

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

17.
The Unabomber--
Mister No-Technology--
nailed by typewriter.

--Dale Wisely, dwisely@wwisp.com

18.
If Dole is an old
Elephant, what's Buchanan?
A woolly mammoth.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

19.
Desolate winter
Mind churning: What did I do!?
Mom of Unabomb

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

20.
Dan Rostenkowski:
His "ways" and "means" sway no names.
Six seasons in jail.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

21.
Macho Koreans
Curse across DMZ: Dead
Motherfucker Zone.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

22.
Oh, Rostenkowski
Old, Rostenkowski. (Graft is)
Old Rostenkowski

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

23.
Searching for John Doe:
Liberte, Egalite,
Fraternite? No.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

24.
Babe banned in China.
They don't like their mu-shu pork
Talking back to them.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

25.
"Capitalist pig!"
Babe is skewered in Beijing.
Afterwards, hot lunch.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

26.
Guilty? Cop a plea.
Serve time for a lesser crime.
Rostenkowski knows.

--Sandra Powell, skpalpha@america.net

27.
Ambulance blown up.
For the Israeli gunships,
Red cross is bull's eye.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

28.
Kravice market.
The Serbs hated the decor.
They painted it red.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

29.
Monrovian smells:
Gun powder, rotting corpses,
The piss scent of fear.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

30.
Nixon tapes unzipped.
Media flock to hear Dick
Let it all hang out.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

31.
Civilian harvest
Operation Grapes of Wrath
Blood flowing like wine

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

32.
A twelve-year-old's rape
Forces Uncle Sam to an
Early withdrawal.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

33.
Homo sapiens
we are called, or "Man, the wise"
but who picked the name?

--David Oates, DavidOates@prodigy.com

34.
Used to be today
Concord battle, beat Redcoats
Start of our nation

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

35.
Now we remember
Unhappy annivers'ry
Of Waco, Murrah

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

36.
Theodore "Blank"-ski.
Mathematics, flowing beards:
A deadly combo.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

37.
Rolodex maker
Leaves a flipping legacy.
Roll on, Rolo-man.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

38.
F. Lee Bailey out.
Judge took stock of stock, wants it.
F. flees with OJ.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

39.
Political heat:
Lebanon takes the pressure
as Peres buckles.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

40.
Kesey is queasy
Leary offs self on the Net
Ultimate spamming

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

41.
Planet Hollywood
Alternate scenario:
Stock "Terminated"

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

42.
Spring Break is over.
Bikini sales fall, stores close.
All staffs at half mast.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

43.
Scratching the Bear's back,
The West doesn't see what he's
Eating--Chechnya.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

44.
Ernesto Samper's
Covert fund-raising jingle:
"It's always Coca."

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

45.
U.N. camp blown up.
For Israeli soldiers, it's
Bomb first, ask later.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

46.
Al-Gamaa attacks
Wrong group of foreign tourists.
'Twas all Greek to them.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

47.
Two giants to merge:
Bell Atlantic and Nynex.
Apt acronym: BAN.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

48.
Boy chasing a ball.
Into the woods. Explosion.
Another mine found.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

49.
World's best mine sweepers:
Farmers tilling, boys playing,
Girls fetching water.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

50.
Mandela's Boys beat
Tunisia. Winnie's "boys"
Just break your knees, ya?

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

51.
Vote for Cthulhu in
ninety-six--lesser evil
than Pat Buchanan.

--Michael Voytinsky, michael@pronexus.com

52.
Achille Lauro:
Killer says: "Oops! I'm sorry!"
Tell it to the judge.

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

53.
Djokhar Dudayev
may be dead--will he become
another martyr?

--Michael Voytinsky, michael@pronexus.com

54.
War in Chechnya
continues--Afghanistan
just was not enough.

--Michael Voytinsky, michael@pronexus.com

55.
Some units now fly
red Soviet flag--a fitting
color for bloodshed.

--Michael Voytinsky, michael@pronexus.com

56.
Two great evils joined--
teachings of Ghengis Khan and
Marx--deadly combo.

--Michael Voytinsky, michael@pronexus.com

57.
Did Dudayev die?
Russians hope Chechnya news
Dies at the same time.

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

58.
A slap in the face
Assassination attempt
or Gorby PR?

--Kevin R. O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

59.
Old women, children,
UN--Israel shoots through
Hezbollah's cover.

--Michael Voytinsky, michael@pronexus.com

60.
Kennedy junk sells
It's all gone in Camelot!
It's a sham-a-lot!

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

61.
Six-year-old killer
Sticks and stones may break our bones
Words can't help us now

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

62.
The Enquirer sez:
Marla dissing the Donald
God!... if they were right!

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

63.
Mourning Chernobyl:
10 years after, it's still: "(I'd)
Love to Change the World"

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

64.
You must be Kidding!
"Washed up starlet goes crazy"
That never happens!

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

65.
Peace in the Mideast
New missile pact ensures it.
Shyeahh, right! And monkeys...

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

66.
Cafe Depresso
Tasmanian devil-man
Pours forth his horror

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

67.
The Springtime Car Blues:
Fiery Fords erupting.
Where's that rebate now?

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com


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