Sunday, May 20, 2012

Untitled #20


Bin Laden is dead
GM is alive, Chen free
BO four more years

Untitled #19


Chen free
Obama’s feng shui
Mitt blindsided

Untitled #18


Stanford, Harvard, Bain
“Regular American”
Unlike the Kenyan

Citizens United Will Never Be Defeated


Everybody knows
Corporations are people
My plebeian friend

Untitled #17


One man, one woman
Except great granddad and mom(s)
Rev. Wright not so strange

Untitled #16


Losing our family.
Let’s take our family back:
To Mexico

Untitled #14


Obama who cares.
Romney: I care?
Do it yourself!

Untitled #13


Public interest
Hard to define, but less than
Carried interest

Untitled #12


Apologize, no.
He bows to our enemies
Except bin Laden

Untitled #10


One man, one woman!
Unless great grand-dad and moms?
I turned out ok

Untitled #9


All about Harvard
All about shaming “Harvards”:
Speak in quiet rooms

Untitled #8


Friends own NASCAR, Cubs
Beach home, car elevators
Barack "not like us"

An Ann Haiku


Never had a job
Five sons and two Cadillacs
American dream

Untitled #7


Remorseless barber,
Scalped classmate’s family regrets
The businessman hack

Untitled #6


Thousands of candles
Extinguished by just one guy
Mitt Romney was here

Untitled #5


Romneyku hidden
And sacred
Like Mormon underwear

Untitled #4


In health care or sex
Every sort of man-date
Against law of God

Untitled #3


Barber of Cranbrook
Empathy? “Fags, dogs on roof!”
Blind guy into door

Untitled #2


Bain of our existence:
Thoreau’s lament:
lives of desperation

Untitled #1


Pension plan empty
Plant shut, jobs go to Macau
Do not hate success

Mitt Romney is a Buddhist

Many believe that Mitt Romney is Mormon but they are only half-right.  Careful observation of Mitt's words & deeds reveals that he is also a practicing Buddhist. Only a Buddhist could hold such a breadth of ideas, of beliefs and non-beliefs, of seeing and not-seeing. The old proverb asks: is the bowl half full or half empty? Mitt responds, "The bowl is both full and empty. There and not there. Visible and invisible. Basmati and Arborio."


While Santorum sought the nomination; Mitt sought Satori. 
And that has made all of the difference. 


This collection of haikus--Romneykus, if you will--are written by many authors with many points of view but each hopes to capture, if only for an instant, the snowflake complexity that is Mitt Romney.