Edku: February 1997

Move backwards to January 1997.

1.
Pyramid scheme fails
Now they riot in the streets
Dumb Albanians

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

2.
Wears that silly hat
Why can't he just shave for once?
Yasser Arafat

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

3.
Ben Netanyahu
Doesn't seem to have a neck
Stiffer than Al Gore

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

4.
Turks shoot Cypriots
Greece orders missiles from Reds
Greeks and Turks make nice

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

5.
Yeltsin sick as dog
Hand on nuclear button
I feel safe and sound

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

6.
Lebed has bad teeth
Dresses like '70s pimp
Let's put him in charge

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

7.
Strom Thurmond still here
Oldest man on the planet
Morons elect him

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

8.
Convicted felon
Let's elect him as mayor!
Marion Barry

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

9.
Bruno Magli shoes
Whole truth and nothing but truth
Do you smell a rat?

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

10.
Single currency
Europe trying to unite
Britain drags its heels

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

11.
Women dress like ghosts
Armed lunatics patrol streets
Afghanistan rules!

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

12.
The new world order
Ex-Soviet republics
Nuke rockets for sale!

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

13.
China denies facts
Do they think we're that stupid?
"What detention camps?!"

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

14.
Lying bureaucrat
"None died at Tiananmen"
Silly Chinaman

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

15.
Persian Gulf countries
Get rich off petroleum
Drink oil for breakfast

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

16.
Communist Party
Dissidents die in China
Party of People

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

17.
Al Gore starts campaign
Isn't it a bit early?
Give it a rest, Al

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

18.
Paula Jones and Bill
She says he stripped in hotel
Why was she in there?

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

19.
Paula Jones in news
Tries to ruin president
Republican prop

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

20.
Whitewater scandal
Why is this federal case?
Was in Arkansas

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

21.
Kathie Lee Gifford
Tries to help the exploited
Too little too late

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

22.
Tickle me Elmo
Fun for about five minutes
Thirty bucks down drain

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

23.
Rush Limbaugh spouts trash
King of the non-sequitur
He just takes up space

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

24.
Tupac Amaru
Portrayed as ruthless killers
Corrupt government

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

25.
Anti-smoking laws
Tobacco lords not beaten
Target Third World now

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

26.
Embargo defunct
Castro is still in power
Can't we just be pals?!

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

27.
Thirty years too long
Time to end the embargo
Castro will then fall

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

28.
Embargo goes down
Capitalism comes in
No room for Castro

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

29.
Embargo lifted
Flood Cuba with our dollars
All those great cigars

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

30.
Time to lift the ban
But anti-Castro lobby
Keeps us in stalemate

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

31.
Russians in Cuba
We tell them to remove spies
But we do same thing

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

32.
Mandela runs things
But where is promised progress?
South African mess

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

33.
Mandela's regime
Unqualified ministers
Right color, wrong men

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

34.
Turkey snubs NATO
Turns focus to Middle East
Losing key ally

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

35.
Turkey's new leader
Islamic hard-line reforms
Oh, for Mustafa

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

36.
Canada hates us
Let them handle own defense
See how long they last

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

37.
Running out of room
Overpopulated towns
Annex Mexico

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

38.
Loyal Democrat
But are they any better?
Sometimes I wonder

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

39.
Washington weirdo
Dick Gephardt has no eyebrows
It's kind of creepy

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

40.
Politics decline
Turns into rich men's playground
Ah, America

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

41.
If I had my way
I'd tape Gingrich's butt cheeks
Then rip it off fast

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

42.
If I had my way
I'd strip Newt Gingrich naked
Strap him to billboard

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

43.
Jesse Helms and Newt
I have one burning question
Who votes for these kooks?

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

44.
Enough lame haiku
About frosty morns and love
Sappy poets whine

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

45.
Christian haiku-ists
Spare me your silly sermons
Oh, you're so pious

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

46.
A film comes out twice.
Long, long ago, far away...
George milks it again.

--Robert L. Folkner, rfolkner@sprint.com

47.
Motor mouth Eric:
Tape his lips shut and then rip
it off. Give it up!!

--Don Kemp, doncorgis@worldnet.att.net

48.
My dream for Don Kemp:
Shove bamboo shoots underneath
his fingernails. Laugh.

--Eric Smith, ses1@st-andrews.ac.uk

49.
Chameleon-like pol
Amazing transformation
Clinton now Reagan

--Allen Specht, aspecht@unlinfo.unl.edu

50.
Bad! Dennis Rodman
Behaves like a little boy
Throws away millions

--Allen Specht, aspecht@unlinfo.unl.edu

51.
Rush envies Ted K.
Wishes he were a man, too
Just can't get the babes

--Allen Specht, aspecht@unlinfo.unl.edu

52.
O.J. is squeezed in
California court--mov-
ing to Florida

--Carolyne Rohrig, henry@home.com

53.
Cloning human life
Easier than first believed
Now where do we go

--Mike Chandler, rmchan@gte.net

54.
Ethicists confused
Life can be created now
By cloning humans

--Mike Chandler, rmchan@gte.net

55.
Bowe joins the Marines!
Finds the drill instructors shout--
boot camp boots him out!

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

56.
Jim McDougal sings!
Says that Clinton did some wrong
Quite a change of tune!

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

57.
When the plotters met
Jim says Slick Willie was there
Slick Will says, "Not so!"

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

58.
Susan said, "Not there!"
No one but Jim saw him there;
Jim's song's out of tune!

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

59.
I sit in the fog,
only music whirls around.
It's getting darker...

--Mark Balas, balas@ludens.elte.hu

60.
Heavy, yellow fog.
A spark flashes with blue light.
Humid, frosty night.

--Mark Balas, balas@ludens.elte.hu

61.
A beautiful girl--
I can't even say a word.
She has gone away.

--Mark Balas, balas@ludens.elte.hu

62.
"Could we meet sometimes?"
"I'm sorry, we'd better not."
I am not surprised.

--Mark Balas, balas@ludens.elte.hu


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