Edku: May 1999

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1.
After all this time
we are surprised that we are
surprised by monsters.

--John Nettles

2.
Ephemeral love,
why in thy name do men pluck
beautiful flowers?

--hathrasi, jabalpuriya@yahoo.com

3.
House votes for ground troops.
Then House votes to stop bombing.
Sterling leadership.

--Lee Malone, leemalone@aol.com

4.
Rutabaga speaks.
Economy must get worse.
He's counting on it.

--Lee Malone, leemalone@aol.com

5.
Doc, will you treat me?
Surely not; you'll have to pay
like all of the rest.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

6.
Doc, my snoring's loud;
it shakes me awake at night.
Sleep in the next room.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

7.
Twister can blow me
I have seen a real monster
Come down from the sky

--John Wesley Hardin, jhardin@sbc-adv.com

8.
Tornado Alley
My mobile home's a magnet
Fujita Class Five

--John Wesley Hardin, jhardin@sbc-adv.com

9.
A sticky brown ring.
A cheap Starbucks plastic lid.
Must have been mocha.

--Brian R. Krause, brk@adducive.com

7.
Who cares about grout?
Not the guy who lived here last,
Just perfectionists.

--Brian R. Krause, brk@adducive.com

8.
Bomb the bastard Serb.
Oops, was that your embassy?
China, you suck too.

--John Wesley Hardin, jhardin@sbc-adv.com

9.
Critics pan Star Wars--
We go, we see, we love it.
People pan critics.

--Rich Russell, rar807@bellatlantic.net

10.
American rules
With missiles and guns in schools
What a big black pot

--Anthony Cheong

11.
Western thought in life
Eastern philosophy gods
Unity in life

--Steven E. Orr, steveorr@bellsouth.net

12.
Oil on a canvas
Color schemes in surrealism
Artist contented

--Steven E. Orr, steveorr@bellsouth.net

13.
Death in a pattern
Endless circle of virtue
Frantic for escape

--Steven E. Orr, steveorr@bellsouth.net

14.
Sun in a spiral
Earth on a stellar discourse
Continuation

--Steven E. Orr, steveorr@bellsouth.net

15.
Locusts surround me
The wind shifts priorities
Deity observes

--Steven E. Orr, steveorr@bellsouth.net

16.
Leaves fall with reason
Conspiracy supercedes
Snow begins to fall

--Steven E. Orr, steveorr@bellsouth.net

17.
Sand gripping the beach
Children unleashing its clutch
The ocean provides

--Steven E. Orr, steveorr@bellsouth.net

18.
Rain descending down
Sunbeams fracture through the day
The soil is fertile

--Steven E. Orr, steveorr@bellsouth.net

19.
Men in suits conform
Rhetoric inaugurates
Politics alive

--Steven E. Orr, steveorr@bellsouth.net

20.
Trickle and drip heard
Cloudburst felt on the way home
Pathos felt in drops

--Steven E. Orr, steveorr@bellsouth.net

21.
Tree sways back and forth
Children swing with rope attached
Sounds of laughter heard

--Steven E. Orr, steveorr@bellsouth.net


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