paul conneally and marlene mountain
april 3-april 12 2005
'the dubya connection'
five mountain
sonnets
1
'it's the birds
that's supposed to suffer not the hunter'
george w. bush, january 22
2004
state of the nation more protein less fat nothing tops
turkey
mock thanksgiving platter
for trained troops
r&r no babes and booze but plenty of free chocolate
on tv a soldier kisses his big gun longer
white
feathers for the boy that never wanted to go to war
kids' video
games beyond perfect for recruitment
in the heart of vice city a twelve year old mows down
a cop
serial
rapist poked/prodded what's there with
guys
in
the old pond a great crested grebe chokes on a
bullfrog
right to
life perfected by right-wing
republicans
clinic doctors forced to arrive and leave by the back
door
feds'
bargain dynamite hid near my neck of the woods
whatever
happens that old wile e coyote just never gives
up
mother nature
in the headlights back & forth run over
2
'a prisoner too
but for bad reasons'
george w. bush, january 13
2004
neocons piled naked every thursday
by the words of god
a lamp lifts by camp x-ray's golden
door
mr ashcroft gone his 'patriot
act' scares shit out of privacy
just in case electronic tags and curfews but no
trials
sharp
tony or lap dog who lied whom into lies of the century
another
cell on death row becomes vacant
brain twister a librarian's hubby and son of a
'higher father'
mental illness reason enough to be locked up
the family
values bunch who'll rescue each female on earth
trapped
in the house with repeats of fantasy island
marriage amendment only one of each who over 50%
divorce
all smile for the pre-nuptial agreement
photograph
'coalition of the willing' thinned out arms legs some
heads gone
the price of oil body bags and tears
3
'think beyond the
immediate'
george w. bush, april 22 2004
light drizzle a washing line full of granddad's
shirts
'wetbacks'
for dirty jobs or maybe dirty bombs
in the city financiers take a position on next year's
oil price
let's
rape the alaskan wilderness not just a dream
half-baked policies hot on the outside but cold in
the middle
medicare medicaid soc sec let's
muck-up or worse
how many more reasons can there be to not sign up for
kyoto
a mispronounced city usa
loves the lawn mower
say something enough times and it will start to sound
true
43 & co
impeached 43 & co impeached 43 &
co
why
worry if the medication works just keep on taking
it
ruined it all
for old jeb that nervous wreck
look
still waiting for that kinder gentler nation dad
promised
we
suffer from texas fried
brains
4
'joe, i don't do
nuance'
george w. bush, february 15 2004
a big word from yale for a
guy with a few syllables short
war speak not showing just telling
'hard work' to
be prez his repetitions fodder for comic
relief
i'm pro-life all those corpses can't be
wrong
hey dubya if freedom's god-given why hasn't your god given
it
shackles and chains this year's hot stocks
again
corporate
greed halaburton gets the big breaks mr dick's bulge
fundament the part of the body on which one sits
who gets the
popemobile more misogynists heaped with praise
no
shoulder pads but bigger and bigger suvs
here's cash to buy our meanest jets to control the
canaanites
give a
dog a bad name and make him live up to it
they want to attack our uniqueness as usual shop 'til
you drop
supermarket fruit picked by workers for a poverty
wage
5
'thank the
astronauts'
george w. bush, january 14 2004
think golf think non-stick pans think guided
missiles
mother's
'wild blue yonder' red white & blue
a flag
that doesn't flutter in the name of god and country
in secret a
man's ashes to the moon keeps me pist
so pleased to find there's maybe-life on mars and
minerals too
new
activity on cape canaveral the short
straws
let's make poverty history a branson planned trip into near space
while everyone's
in rome a condom drop over africa
an experiment to find which way sperm swim in zero
gravity
just shy
of the outer limits a japanese haiku
contest
a
close encounter of the worse kind by the cheese counter
one hole in the
ozone led to streets lined with gold
after
all we know still showing the kids the man in the
moon
star wars still in the works still
unworkable
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marlene mountain
http://www.marlenemountain.org
paul conneally
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/haikumania/
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