Edku: February 1999

Move backwards to January 1999.

1.
Stock market dollars
reproducing like rabbits;
money is horny.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

2.
Old song stuck in brain,
lyrics almost remembered,
youth a memory.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

3.
Senate trial slogs on,
sex, lies, and videotape,
House desperation.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

4.
Tomato lobby
buys eleven Senators;
Washington feigns shock.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

5.
Car strikes tomato.
Doctor says, "You'll live, but as
a vegetable."

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

6.
Tomatoes prefer
gentle sports, skip Super Bowl.
Higher form of life.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

7.
Tomatoes in space?
Mars is called the red planet.
Coincidence? No.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

8.
Temperatures climbing.
Ocean levels creeping up.
Tomatoes grow gills.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

9.
Bill isn't worried
The Senate won't remove him
There aren't enough votes

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

10.
The Denver Broncos
Win another Super Bowl
Please, John--don't retire!

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

11.
Now they testify
Monica, Vernon, and Sid
What a waste of time

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

12.
Didn't he know that
"Niggardly" isn't racist
It just sounds that way

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

13.
Punxsatawny Phil
Let's hope he sees no shadow
Or we wait for spring

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

14.
February Two
Is when Punxsatawny Phil
Predicts the weather

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

15.
Kosovo at war
Clinton facing impeachment
See the tail wag dog

--mike-lewellen@leavitt.com

16.
Millennium cash
Budget surplus hits billions
Uncle Sam won't share

--mike-lewellen@leavitt.com

17.
Back against the wall
Flynt, Clinton, Carville make strange
Bedfellows indeed

--mike-lewellen@leavitt.com

18.
Hillary Clinton
Penis found on the road dead
Lorena Part Two

--mike-lewellen@leavitt.com

19.
Abortions legal
Millions of souls cry as one
Seeking redemption

--mike-lewellen@leavitt.com

20.
Liberal playing
With a few subtle musings.
Compassion will cost.

--Deirdsweet@aol.com

21.
What's democracy?
All our brain cells are jelling.
My dream said it's more.

--Deirdsweet@aol.com

22.
Caught in a Yea, Nay,
the Senators sit snoring.
Ditch the VCR.

--Deirdsweet@aol.com

23.
Death Row's old inmate--
Fiends had more money than you,
Innocent: but, dead.

--Deirdsweet@aol.com

24.
What is a haiku?
Truth caught up in a rhythm,
Your heart may open.

--Deirdsweet@aol.com

25.
Thick-skinned tomatoes
take whatever life hands out
but taste like toothpaste.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

26.
Tomato censured,
vows revenge, next election.
Prudes get on our nerves.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

27.
Tomato beats rap,
tells biggest lie, "I'll forgive,"
schemes to weed garden.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

28.
I can't help it if
The Republicans have no
Sense of humidor.

--Barrie Collins, bcollins@comox.island.net

29.
Me? Lie under oath?
It's not as though we're talking
"Iran-Contra" here.

--Barrie Collins, bcollins@comox.island.net

30.
Maybe immoral,
Perhaps inappropriate,
But it was NOT sex!

--Barrie Collins, bcollins@comox.island.net

31.
I'm sorry...that the
Republicans have made us
A world laughing-stock.

--Barrie Collins, bcollins@comox.island.net

32.
How does "Whitewater"
Involve Monica who was
Just three at the time?

--Barrie Collins, bcollins@comox.island.net

33.
A Presidential
Oath is not the same as a
Vow of chastity.

--Barrie Collins, bcollins@comox.island.net

34.
Didn't inhale, so
Haven't smoked pot. Didn't do
"IT"...haven't had sex!

--Barrie Collins, bcollins@comox.island.net

35.
Witnesses on tape?
NIXON would have videos
Of the whole affair.

--Barrie Collins, bcollins@comox.island.net

36.
It wasn't "High Crime"
Just a small peccadillo--
Ask Miss Lewinsky!

--Barrie Collins, bcollins@comox.island.net

37.
I'm sorry and I
(Mom, U.S.A., apple pie)
Won't do it again.

--Barrie Collins, bcollins@comox.island.net

38.
Hoping she might be
Able to forget the past,
I sent the present.

--Barrie Collins, bcollins@comox.island.net

39.
When I misbehaved,
How was I to know she would
Be a Starr witness?

--Barrie Collins, bcollins@comox.island.net

40.
There are those of you
Who think I got off scot-free...
That's Hillarious!

--Barrie Collins, bcollins@comox.island.net

41.
All Republican
Presidents from now on had
Better be saint-like.

--Barrie Collins, bcollins@comox.island.net

42.
So? My given names
Are William Jefferson
NOT George Washington.

--Barrie Collins, bcollins@comox.island.net

43.
Clinton is impeached.
Then, Clinton is acquitted.
Life in the farce lane!

--Barrie Collins, bcollins@comox.island.net

44.
Tomato ripens
just like a bad plot: too fast.
Prime past in minutes.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

45.
Scientists slow light
to 38 miles per hour
in witch's tit cold.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

46.
Tour allure a lie.
Promises will be broken.
Take travelers' checks.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

47.
Late-night tomato,
swinging from a tall, tall vine,
wants to do Vegas.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

48.
U.S. bombs Iraq
while innocent people die.
When will he give up?

--Alicia Hendrix, ahendrix@mail.sikeston.k12.mo.us

49.
I say tomatoes,
you say potatoes, we need
five more syllables.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

50.
When Tomato Fats
enters any pool hall, flee,
clutching your money.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

51.
Tomato in space
malfunctions, can't rotate right,
ripens on one side.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

52.
Second tomato,
embittered by press neglect,
purées self to sauce.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com


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