Edku: January 1997

Move backwards to December 1996.

1.
Mainstream media
Fears Internet's not TV
Will the user win?

--Roman Godzich, rgodzich@grouper.com

2.
Mattel's big mistake
To bite the hand that feeds you
Cabbage Patch Snack Time

--Larry Cruikshank, laredog@primenet.com

3.
Newt's small infractions
enlarged while Clinton's many
sins whitewashed and shrunk.

--Carolyne Rohrig, henry@home.com

4.
It's dark. I'm alone.
My mood is bitterish sweet.
I am happy now.

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

5.
Ebonics dis be.
Genetics say I can't talk
Same language as you.

--Patrick Marcotte, marcotte@millcomm.com

6.
Inaugural ball
Slick Willie meets Speaker Newt
Brief conversation . . .

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

7.
Newt says to Slick Will,
"Wonder what we'd be doing
if not elected."

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

8.
President replies
in his Arkansas accent,
"Ten to twenty years."

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

9.
Fog. Cold. Frozen snow.
Crying air streams in my lung.
I miss my best friend.

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

10.
We were enemies.
I was in love, you, jealous--
in vain. So we're friends.

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

11.
Too many children
dumpstered, strangled in cellars,
shot dead on freeways.

--Steve Masticola, masticol@scr.siemens.com

12.
McDermott, Thurman,
Bonior: post-illegal tapes
This is their gone year

--Cliff Garrison, oldgrump@hotmail.com

13.
Read haiku elsewhere
5-7-5 rule is gone
The rest are outlaws

--Larry Cruikshank, laredog@primenet.com

14.
A President's lapse
A nation's solemn recourse
And now a new term!

--PAULD@wpgate1.ahs.state.vt.us

15.
Happy Birthday King.
Bill lunched for forty million.
Well, King born today.

--Frederick Leavines, fleavines@earthlink.net

16.
Although I've often
seen your eyes, caressed your hair,
I've not found you yet.

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

17.
Have you ever thought?
"It is just an animal?"
No--you're just human.

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

18.
Where are we going?
Nobody will tell--maybe
we should start out first.

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

19.
Bill and Hillary
Back in the White House again--
Plotting their third term.

--Carolyne Rohrig, henry@home.com

20.
I listen to punk--
I drink red wine. All the same--
Easy things to do.

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

21.
Your hair is like bronze
Your scent fills my thirsty lung--
An autumn twilight

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

22.
Sky is like cold tin.
Trees are grown by frozen snow--
Winter is so long...

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

23.
Dirty, rotten snow.
Dirt and smoke fill everything--
Me, the air, my soul.

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

24.
O.J. jury sits
Deliberating his fate--
Time for guilty plea.

--Carolyne Rohrig, henry@home.com


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