1.
Tomatoes at war;
screams of terror, severed vines,
stupidity squared.
2.
Grass tall in patches;
neighbor's lawn like putting green;
old lawnmower calls.
3.
Green tomatoes have
hard hearts, deep self-absorption,
will to dominate.
4.
Mature tomatoes,
more vulnerable, loving,
share sunlight, rich soil.
5.
Long-distance runner,
plugging, pounding, perspiring,
desperate, joyful.
6.
What body can do
after it can do no more
is astonishing.
7.
Ethnic cleansing sounds
like something to do in spring.
It's ethnic slaughter.
8.
War is like hunting,
except humans kill humans;
each side's anger mounts.
9.
War is like hunting,
except both sides are righteous,
avenging past wrongs.
10.
War is like hunting
with bigger, better weapons
that denude, destroy.
11.
If we could hunt deer
with weapons used to kill folks:
Bambi's woods enflamed.
12.
Bullet that misses
is a blessing all around.
Better none were fired.
13.
Airplanes' impotence,
killer thug's longevity,
flood of mothers' tears.
14.
We dropped the big bomb,
justifiably, of course,
but no one else did.
15.
Milosevic stops.
Always killing and stopping.
Unilateral.
16.
Best we do nothing.
We'll read about it later.
Then blame everyone.
17.
No more foreigners.
Refugees are so homeless.
They never go back.
18.
No huddled masses
And the tired and poor stay out.
Just send us the rich.
19.
Just a civil war.
Don't get our army involved
President Lincoln.
20.
Wars without ground troops
are like poker without cards.
Neither side can win.
21.
If you cross this line
there'll be hell to pay; well, then,
don't you cross that line.
22.
Tomatoes marvel
at man's inhumanity;
planet's future dims.
23.
That glowing box is
Our small window to the world;
Primetime is my time.
24.
Shooting in a school
Press gives so much coverage
More are then inspired
25.
The right to bear arms
Fifteen dead in Littleton
Can it bear much more?
26.
Guns don't kill people.
People kill people with guns.
Don't you feel better?
27.
Three dogs bark loudly,
10 frogs croak brief melody,
two doctors shoot ducks.
28.
Trench Coat Mafia
Happy Birthday, Dear Adolph
Shoot me again, please
29.
Sick teens on rampage
Viagra'd Bob Dole perks up
Let's ban all movies!
30.
Innocent blood drained
from the veins of our young ones
when the madness strikes.
31.
I wake, no longer
Under a sheltering sky
To checkmate the king