Barack Haiku

Real jobs, up in smoke/

Play “wars” on drugs, schools, hippies/

Distract from long con/

Poodle Press plus Pols/

Junior High gossip circus/

Paid to ignore us/

Dark justice promise/

Lead harvest of hatred sown/

Well earned dead end/

Level eyes chuckle/

At crusader’s insult smear/

“just a pragmatist”/

Hard forge of the law/

Warm justice for snow bosses/

Workmen iced out/

By guest poet Paul e McCullough

Remember the ones/

Who do not wear suits like us/

They can feel pain too/

Snow wanders the yard/

Blown, shoveled, swirling/

Time for change, always/

Talk radio’s son/

Fear dug roots in fervid soil/

Beyond words real death/

Bone ice winter gale/

Hide livestock in safe harbor/

Fat wolves are drooling/

Anchor in loose sand/

Tossing the base a false cure/

Crank the engine, now!/

Fix-it work tires us/

Rich tax cuts and unicorns/

Bush disease recurs/

One puff in a gale?

Fall bluster made from lone puffs/

Breath in, think, then vote!

Dig in bloody soil/

Peel away brash excuses/

Light shapes resentment/

Whose America?/

This sour anger on the mall/

It’s Ooze-Beck-istan!/

Axe’s bitter arc/

Splinters our liberty tree/

Does Osama’s work/