The People's Choice Cuts: 3001-4000

1.

Like a new piglet
Slick with slime, SPAM emerges
Making sucking sounds.
--John Mitchell

2.

SPAM: the perfect food
For people who study Zen--
Meat, and yet not meat.
--Francis Heaney, francis.heaney@tglbbs.com

3.

I sing little songs
To help the SPAM stay cheerful
Until I fry it.
--Francis Heaney, francis.heaney@tglbbs.com

4.

Leaves wither and fall,
Snow descends, then the spring thaw--
The SPAM is still fresh.
--Francis Heaney, francis.heaney@tglbbs.com

5.

SPAM, too, needs a wife.
What consort for my Pork Prince?
Ah! The Velveeta!
--John Mitchell

Silken pig tofu
The color of spanked buttocks
Blushing at my knife

--John Mitchell

7.

Father pig to son:
"One day, all yours will be this,"
pointing to SPAM tin.
--Rob Mellor, rob@nice.compulink.co.uk

8.

Man wearing white shirt
Drops meat, causing greasy stain;
Cries, "Out, out, SPAM dot!"
--Francis Heaney, francis.heaney@tglbbs.com

Put SPAM in the tank.
Turns the toilet water pink.
2000 flushes!

--Bob Roberds, broberds@ix.netcom.com

10.

In mud you frolicked
Till they cut, cleaned and canned you.
How now, thou ground sow?
--John Mitchell

Bulimics love it:
Easy down, easy up, and
a nice storage can.

--zbaird@cjnetworks.com

12.

Attach electrodes
To the SPAM, jolt it, shock it--
Still it will not oink.
--Francis Heaney, francis.heaney@tglbbs.com

13.

Try new, improved SPAM!
Just like the old SPAM, except
You can't open it.
--Francis Heaney, francis.heaney@tglbbs.com

14.

Indian looks down
on Hormel plant. A single
tear runs down his face.
--Bob Roberds, broberds@ix.netcom.com

Slaughterhouse product
The screams of a thousand pigs
Silent within you

--John Mitchell

16.

You leave the table
So offended by my meal.
Come back, little fly!
--John Mitchell

17.

A business dinner.
Unknowing wife serves up SPAM.
The contract is lost.
--Steve Sapovits, steves@telebase.com

Bhagavad Gita:
"Now I am become SPAM, the
destroyer of meals."

--Bob Roberds, broberds@ix.netcom.com

Black cat drags about
his pink, purloined bite of SPAM
like an extra tongue.

--Meredith Merritt

20.

Dr. Frankenstein
used SPAM for brains and made the
first politician.
--zbaird@cjnetworks.com


Thanks again to the anonymous panelists for helping me select among 1000 haiku, and to Phil Erickson for writing the vote tallying cgi script.

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Last modified: Thu Mar 20 17:03:40 GMT-0400 1997