Edku: October 1999

Move backwards to September 1999.

1.
I once wrote column,
masterful comparison,
apples and oranges.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

2.
New square tomatoes
can be efficiently packed,
perfect with square fish.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

3.
Colored lights dress tress
Crowded stores buzz with shoppers
Jesus forgotten

--Joann Pittman, jpittman@optonline.net

4.
I hear the wind now
Before I know I could not
Before changes came

--Bill Zanzinger, jesrun5@msn.com

5.
Lone doe chews the grass
Studies me, ready to run.
Why are you afraid?

--Bill Zanzinger, jesrun5@msn.com

6.
Little bird picks grit
By the side of the road I
See you and relax.

--Bill Zanzinger, jesrun5@msn.com

7.
Damn! A traffic jam.
Thoughts flowing minutes ago
Suddenly bind me.

--Bill Zanzinger, jesrun5@msn.com

8.
You insist the work
Must be yours and no other--
Now the chance is lost.

--Bill Zanzinger, jesrun5@msn.com

9.
From life--it is true
Whatever you focus on
Always expands, grows.

--Bill Zanzinger, jesrun5@msn.com

10.
Will I ever do
All these things I wanted to?
Yes, if I think so.

--Bill Zanzinger, jesrun5@msn.com

11.
He tried, wanted help
So bravely fought the monkey
I'll miss you brother

--Bill Zanzinger, jesrun5@msn.com

12.
Dogs rule us, he says,
And tomatoes stalk our pets.
Worms eat us at last.

--Pat Cummings, drpat@aht.com

13.
Garciaparra
Nomar Garciaparra
Garciaparra

--Patrick FitzGerald, patrick@ctsv.com

14.
Star on Xmas tree.
Plastic baby in manger.
Santa delivers.

--Lee Malone, leemalone@aol.com

15.
Steve Forbes looks surprised.
It's the way he always looks.
Ice cubes down his shorts.

--Lee Malone, leemalone@aol.com

16.
No new nuke treaty.
Jesse the Helms gets even.
Never liked Clinton.

--Lee Malone, leemalone@aol.com

17.
Credit Buchanan.
Tricky said: "I'm not a crook."
Did Pat write that speech?

--Lee Malone, leemalone@aol.com

18.
Seven day big bang.
Creationism evolves,
Including the rest.

--Lee Malone, leemalone@aol.com

19.
Careful selection.
Reform Party Convention.
Send in some more clowns.

--Lee Malone, leemalone@aol.com

20.
Election preview
Politic soundbites extreme
Cartoon characters

--nlmaret@peachnet.campuscwix.net

21.
Memories fading,
Flowers gone, lawns turned drab brown,
Tomorrow unclear.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

22.
Tomato forgets,
one horrible, distant day,
which color to turn.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

23.
Telephone numbers
fled to brain's dark recesses,
never to return.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

24.
Tomato could sing,
not too well, mostly low notes,
fame came, soured, rotted.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

25.
Tomato golfer
four-putts from forty-five feet,
claims she's having fun.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

26.
Tomatoes asleep,
dreaming of roundness, redness,
adequate moisture.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

27.
Worm on tomato,
crawling round, theorizes
Earth might not be square.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

28.
Too fat tomato
takes up running, bores garden
with ecstatic tales.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com


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John Cho, jync@mit.edu