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“Democrazy” – A Poem

Here’s a poem I wrote a couple of weeks ago. It’s again in that haiku style, each stanza a separate haiku. I don’t know why I find that style appealing, but it sure beats some of the styles of poems in the New Yorker. I will give a mocking example, though for some reason, the large amount of spaces I have put between key words does not seem to be showing up. Imagine the poem with large spaces in odd places.

A Stupid Poem like those in the New Yorker
Written May 29, 2007

When I
write for some

reason, I

cannot keep
my thoughts
in a straight

line or work
with complete

sentences.

Anyway, that is a bad poem; here is a perhaps decent one.

Democrazy
Written May 10, 2007

A benchmark response:
Stoppards against victory,
defeat guarantors.

The people’s reply:
Headstrong president safeguard,
checks and balances.

An Iraqi’s view:
Deathsquad drivebys, brutal costs,
foreign invaders.

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