Hurricane Lodge

Leaving the Lower 48

Plane banks into fleecy
clouds, Valentinos left behind,
Sarah sighs slightly.

THE SAGA OF JOE THE PLUMBER

There once was a plumber named Joe
Who could replumb your house head to toe
No toilet too jammed
With yesterday’s yams
He grew flush and his business did grow.

Then came a new taxation plan
That threatened the wealth of this man
Obama said “Five
Percent of you thrive
Beyond what our nation can stand.”

Joe wasn’t too happy ‘bout this
In fact you could say he was pissed
So pissed in fact
That he went on attack
Something McCain did not miss.

Then came the final debate
And McCain had his turn at the plate
He cited poor Joe
Whose business would slow
If Obama became Head of State.

It’s fair to say Joe was bitter
But he was a clever pipe fitter
He voted McCain
To diminish his pain
But Big John wound up in the shitter.

Palin, too, joined McCain there all hushed
Clogging the pipes when folks flushed
Which kept Joe employed
He was overjoyed
But Joe Six-Pak, his cousin, was crushed.

McCain’s Biden his time at the bar
Palin comparison far
From national fame
It’s a damnable shame:
My friends, he’d have been a big star!

Putin rears his head
comes into air space of America…
where – where do they go?

Sarah Palin

(almost verbatim)

Outside Wausilla
a moose tests the morning ice,
looking for lake weeds.

Neither Moose Nor Alaska

[These haikus are addictive but I promise more

"real poems" soon]

Straight talk from Oxford:
no matter what you feed them,
some dogs won’t hunt.

[Note: I'll leave it to readers to decide if these are haiku, senryu or if it doesn't matter.  Any thoughts?]

Markets dive, northern
salmon reeks on the shelf and
Republic survives?

Having spent most of my life actively involved in campaigns and on public policy issues, I can’t resist any longer bringing it here, although my comments will be in haiku and I invite others to send me theirs in that or any other poetic forms.

Sarah Invites Charlie Over the House

Dissembler, jaw out,
that finger on the trigger
should scare everyone.

Jeff Bernstein