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senate laureate

thehaikudetat — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:26:05 +0000

Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
What Sonia has done
Is so very impressive
So I am impressed

John Cornyn, R-Texas
We now all agree
Judges channel the Framers
Empathy is toast

Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
Guys ‘n’ gals differ
It’s not that one is biased
We just come that way

Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.
A prosecutor
Badass on white collar crime
Tough chick. Just like me.

Arlen Specter, D-Pa.
Ethnic pride is good
But this is not me crying
It’s just the chemo

(courtesy of Dahlia Lithwick/Slate!)

Read more: 306 Syllables on Sotomayor
Image source: Pundit Kitchen

let us be merce-ful as well as just

thehaikudetat — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:18:48 +0000

New forms new beauty
Dance each instant as it comes
We will miss you, Merce

(courtesy of anthony!)

Read: Merce Cunningham, Choregrapher, Dies at 90
Enjoy: Anthony Roth Costanzo
Image source: Ballet Dance Magazine

Ode to the Bar Exam, Part Deux

thehaikudetat — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:48:32 +0000

bankruptcy is funny!

Son’s got gambling debt
Statutory spendthrift rule
You’ve just saved his trust

(courtesy of nelly!)

Learn: Bankruptcy in the United States
Image source: Houston’s Clear Thinkers

Ode to the Bar Exam

thehaikudetat — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:35:50 +0000

we're fine with this Will, too

I am very poor
Can you die so I can get
My intestate share

(courtesy of nelly!)

Read: Aspiring Lawyer Finds Debt Is Bigger Hurdle than Bar Exam
Learn: Intestacy

there’s something about cammy

thehaikudetat — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:40:18 +0000

A star for Cammy
Proof that gilded concrete goes
To highest bidders

(courtesy of liz!)

Read/Image source: Cameron Diaz Gets Star on Hollywood Blvd Walk of Fame

and then there was maude

thehaikudetat — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:46:27 +0000

What will poor Stan do?

No Petrillo women left.

The putz stands alone.

Dorothy, we missed

Dear maaaa, but without you, will

We ever laugh of Brooklyn?

(courtesy of liz!)

Read: Golden Girls Star Beatrice Arthur Dies

Image source: LA Times

on the campaign trail

thehaikudetat — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:47:01 +0000

most likely he used the random stump speech generator

Vivid responsive
Valued votes worry, arrows
Succeed, prospects set

Success fades, humble
Laws aiding faction leaning
Liberal uphill

Strictly wishing safe
Conservative Pentagon
Vanishes, unborn

(courtesy of the Random Stump Speech Synopsis Haiku Generator!)

Play: RSSSHG

Image source: Stump Speech, by George Caleb Bingham

one third the pay, three times the fun!

thehaikudetat — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:00:32 +0000

gives new meaning to the word "court"

In a crushing blow

Biglaw lawyers cruise the globe

At twice what I’m paid.

(courtesy of nelly!)

Read: $80,000 for a Year Off? She’ll Take It!

Image source: Flickr

almost as good as mine?

thehaikudetat — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:15:33 +0000

bemused ducks

Doubt licks blearily
Seagull quivers, bragging crags
Raining lilypads

Bemused duck cursing
Raging, clamoring, rudely
Harmonious kind

(courtesy of the Genuine Haiku Generator!)

Check out: The Genuine Haiku Generator

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Funny, she doesn’t look like a Druish princess

thehaikudetat — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:53:24 +0000

they love haikus, too

In the ice sculpture
reflected bar mitzvah guests
nosh on chopped liver.

The sparkling blue sea
beckons me to wait one hour
after my sandwich.

Is one Nobel Prize
so much to ask from a child
after all I’ve done?

How soft the petals
of the flower arrangement
I have just stolen.

(courtesy of David M. Bader!)

Buy: Haikus for Jews – For You, a Little Wisdom

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