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Epitaph for a coming attraction on the occasion of the election victory of the Palestinian people amid the death-watch in Hadassah Hospital

There’s the old butcher Carved his last Canaanite Nothing left but to breathe By machines, day and night Wretched and haunted At the end by the thought His life’s work gone all for nought 26 January 2006

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9-11 Emergency

a haiku 13 September 2001 Airplanes fly into Buildings — What’s your prob? Go shop! Keep on shopping man

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It Does Not Depend On What The Meaning of ‘Is’ Is

a double-haiku on the U.S.-Zionist-Western frenzy unleashed by Hamas’ electoral victory (written 26 January 2006) To those who stole land by lethal force insisting victims cease resisting now, the people say: we’ll talk talk to you who stole our land … Continue reading

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pseudo Haiku #1

Morning coffee’s not my enemy — It’s my enema Ha, ha, ha! 3 May 2010

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Someone’s got their thinking cap on…

Back on May 17th, responding to the news in the NY Times that “Iran Offers to Ship Uranium, Complicating [sic] Sanctions Talks,” defendGaza_8940 tweeted as follows ““Swap Obama’s Nobel Prize with Erdogan & Lula near Deepwater Horizon, with Iran offering … Continue reading

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“The dhow in d’ Nile” (the Dow in denial), or Sheherazade’s 1002nd night

The following haiku explores the anatomy of recent so-called “high-frequency trading” on the stock market. This has been blamed for (reportedly) almost crashing the NY Stock Exchange — home of the Dow Industrial Average among other hoary shibboleths of financial … Continue reading

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