The People's Choice Cuts: 1001-2000

1.

They have no more SPAM
My hands tremble with anger
Clean-up on aisle 5
--Cissy Hartley

2.

I allowed the SPAM
To slide to toilet from can
Saved time and trouble
--Ken Zuroski, zuroski@cmu.edu

3.

Boy trapped in ice box
Nothing else inside but SPAM
Boy eats own left foot
--Anonymous

4.

Using only SPAM
Grandma made some tasty treats.
We set her on fire.
--Ken Zuroski, zuroski@cmu.edu

5.

Critics will scoff: "These
aren't real haiku." We'll retort,
"So? SPAM ain't real meat."
--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

6.

Formless spawn of pork,
Leers with gelatinous gaze,
Taunting my lean soul.
--William Bradford, tslug@peak.org

If Hormel branched out
With new meat types, we might see
Spicken, Spish, or Speef.

--Tom Elliott, Tosh@Werple.mira.net.au

Drunk crippled Ewok,
Dead on sidewalk, piss-drenched fur,
SPAM just out of reach

--Charles Campos, chaz@mailserv.edcc.edu

Pepto-Bismol / SPAM
One yin to the other's yang
Pink pursuing pink

--Bill Turner, turnerwj@muohio.edu

10.

Knock knock. "Trick or Treat!"
Winking, I said "Here's your 'Treet'."
The brats torched my house.
--Bill Lafferty, mr_bill@ix.netcom.com

Roseate pork slab
How you quiver on my spork!
Radiant light, gelled.

--L. Sheahen, lsheahen@nas.edu

Turkey-shaped SPAM for
Thanksgiving dinner. None give
thanks but the turkey.

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

13.

"Life is like a tin
of SPAM: you never know which
pig parts you're getting."
--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

"A SPAM murder, Holmes?
Whither the murder weapon?"
"Alimentary."

--Ken Zuroski, zuroski@cmu.edu

What a mockery--
Lettuce and fruits surround SPAM.
Why gild the lily?

--L. Sheahen, lsheahen@nas.edu

Eat or be eaten.
With SPAM, you can never be
sure who is winning.

--Ben Hitz, hitz@cumbnd.bioc.columbia.edu

17.

I say "to-may-to"
you say "to-mah-to." I say
"SPAM," you say "pure crap."
--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

Fuchsia and chartreuse
The breakfast of champions
SPAM and Mountain Dew

--Bill Turner, turnerwj@muohio.edu

SPAM SHAM arrested
for "Incitement to Haiku"
and "Contempt of Pork."

--Rory, son of mickman

20.

AMSPay aikuhay
Ogicallay Anguagelay:
Igpay Atinlay.
--Artinmay Oodabay, booda@datasync.com


Thanks again to the anonymous panelists for helping me select among 1000 haiku, to our special guest expert, Dr. Diane M. Harris, author of Regulation of Porcine Adipose Tissue Lipogenesis by Somatotropin, to Phil Erickson for writing the vote tallying cgi script, and to Alec Proudfoot (alec@netcom.com) for hosting the ballot box.

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