Edku: October 1995

Move backwards to September 1995.

1.
Congress, President
Trade blows. Civil servants starve.
It's Fiscal New Year.

--Martin Booda, booda@datasync.com

2.
Little Rock cracker
Versus Kansas tight-ass. Wow!
Another great choice.

--Martin Booda, booda@datasync.com

3.
Belarus shoots down
Unarmed balloon "to save it."
They must be 'Nam vets.

--Martin Booda, booda@datasync.com

4.
Clinton brings some peace
at last, to the Middle East
Bob Dole says "big deal."

--John St. Croix, JSTCROIX@HR.HOUSE.GOV

5.
Newt slashes budget
Grateful wealthy pay no tax
Poor can't afford SPAM

--John St. Croix, JSTCROIX@HR.HOUSE.GOV

6.
Deliberation.
Jury decides in four hours.
OJ not guilty!

--Steve Stroud, strouds@polaroid.com

7.
Trial takes eight months
It's pregnant with evidence
Justice miscarries

--John St. Croix, JSTCROIX@HR.HOUSE.GOV

8.
Momoh is long gone.
Oh, why does Foday Sankoh
Not give up his arms?

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

9.
How many lives is
A name worth? A lot if it's
"Macedonia."

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

10.
Palestine "self-rule":
"Yes, sir, I rule by myself,"
Proclaims Arafat.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

11.
Ten million Chinese
Men looking for brides. Damn! Should
Have let those girls live.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

12.
Jesse Helms, confused,
Sees Last Tango in Paris,
Declares war on France.

--John Cho, jync@mit.edu

13.
Caucausian pundits
Gripe "Johnnie played the race card!"
Fuhrman played it first.

--Mark Derby, mark.derby@nwcs.org

14.
country western cow
wins Dolly Parton Music
on TV last night

--jill maxi, wonderw@thoughtport.com

15.
Electric not paid
Russian army turns back on
Prevents sub meltdown

--Susan Lippincott,susan@ole.cdac.com

16.
Hormel sues Henson
"Spamme" not acceptable name
for MISTER Piggy

--Alec Proudfoot, alec@netcom.com

17.
Farrakhan orates.
Where was Leni Riefenstahl
When he needed her?

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

18.
Medicare is bad,
Screams Newt's mob, but try our new
Medi-fuck-you plan.

--John St. Croix, JSTCROIX@hr.house.gov

19.
Oct. 17th: New
Song for Farrakhan. Daylight
Come; gotta go home.

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

20.
First Calypso Lou,
Now Fidel. That's just too much
Caribbean beat.

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

21.
Peace in Bosnia
Clinton and Yeltsin agree
Too late to save them

--John Hardin, jwesley@wizard.com

22.
Yolanda's pistol
"I'm your number one fan" BANG
Pop star becomes saint

--John Hardin, jwesley@wizard.com

23.
Fidel promises
Doctors for Harlem. Get set
For more flotillas.

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

24.
Bosnia is like
A huge open grave. We're just
Dying to get in.

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

25.
O.J. has lawyers;
Thirteen at the latest count.
A liar's dozen.

--Brent Fusco, fuscob@tysonms2.tyson.com

26.
Reps try to fix it.
Medicare almost bankrupt.
Dems stick heads in sand.

--Ben Moldovan, bmoldova@mail.orion.org

27.
UN turns 50.
Clinton laughs his fanny off.
More New York gridlock.

--Carol Markowitz, carolm@newscorp.com

28.
Trial of the decade
O.J. is found innocent
Has the system worked?

--Sarah Ruark, sruark%osf1@gmu.edu

29.
Republicans suck
They are attacking the poor
I want to vomit

--Susanna Winn, winns@rockvax.rockefeller.edu

30.
Gristle on the screen
is confusing my palate;
Sarajevan SPAM.

--Juris Odins, jodins@unotes1.mnet.uswest.com

31.
Join Army, serve US
Not the United Nations.
Court-martial for this?

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

32.
Arafat booted
From Beethoven by Mayor
Manhatten welcome

--Chris Nicholson, CHRIS@PFI.ORG

33.
Newt's mob will only
fix Republican wallets.
Please don't kid yourself.

--John St. Croix, JSTCROIX@hr.house.gov

34.
Dole flips over gays,
Clinton flops over budget.
Election year sucks.

--Mike Manos, mmanos@uhd2.uhd.com

35.
Balkan genocide?
American Indians
suffered even more.

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

36.
Serb ethnic cleansing?
Our Jap'nese in World War Two
We are no better!

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

37.
Tree-hugging whiners.
Bleeding-hearts and bed-wetters.
Liberals must go.

--Carlos Munoz, cmunoz@vt.edu

38.
Old die of sickness,
Children die of ignorance.
Republicans live.

--Bryan Burkett, bburkett@indiana.edu

39.
Multiple posted
Sexual advertising
Get a fucking clue!

--Ross Finlayson, finlayson@cs.stanford.edu

40.
Newt screams "No Troops to
Bosnia! It would be bad
if someone died there."

--John St. Croix, JSTCROIX@hr.house.gov

41.
New York mayor, host,
Wanted to show Castro lost.
No dinner for guest.

--Ramani T. Kandiah, RD498103@HKPUCC.polyu.edu.hk

42.
Power lunches go
Music denied to Fidel
Embargo has failed

--Ernesto Lopez, elopezmareovich@worldbank.org

43.
Fidel in New York--
now business suit, now fatigues--
soldier of fortune.

--Juris Odins, jodins@unotes1.mnet.uswest.com


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