Posts Tagged ‘poetry’

Haikus for Joe

March 26, 2010Jon Brooks 1 Comment »

Everyone knows by now that Joe Biden salted his introduction of President Obama at the signing of the health care bill with a comment he thought was off-mic: “This is a big f**** deal.”

The Brian Lehrer Show has asked listeners to submit haikus about health care reform using Biden’s faux pas as the middle line. [...]

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Community colleges, another view

March 1, 2010Jon Brooks No Comments »

Found on the blog of anthropologist and corporate consultant Grant McCracken:

Community Colleges, Another View
Perhaps as a reply to the TV show that now holds the community college up to ridicule, Kay Ryan, the US poet laureate, has this to say:
“I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and [...]

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“No Investor or a Broker Be” and other poems

December 4, 2009Jon Brooks No Comments »

Some guest poems from the Wall Street Poet’s web site, including

No Investor or a Broker Be
by Karl Neice
No investor or a broker be
In times when future nigh
As postwar doldrums see
Us through
2025
Cash is king, long live its value
Its liquidity, and interest free
When deflation signs can tell you
What your stocky mind can’t see
Economists Agree!
by Rob George
Folks [...]

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The Wall Street Poet

December 1, 2009Jon Brooks No Comments »

Michael Silverstein is a financial writer and former senior editor for Bloomberg. But more recently, he’s known as The Wall Street Poet, writing market commentary in the form of satiricial verse. A regular contributor to Minnesota Public Radio, he also has his own web site, WallStreetPoet.com, featuring a substantial archive.
Those in the know [...]

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One more haiku

November 3, 2009Jon Brooks No Comments »

Haiku mania continues. Coming to us over the Facebook transom from Patricia Milton:
The cash for clunkers
program worked. Shiny new cars
in foreclosed driveways.

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A mother responds to Unemployment Haiku Weekly

November 2, 2009Jon Brooks No Comments »

Facebook response to our last post on unemployment haikus, from a mother of three small children.

i work my ass off
but my only salary
is dirty laundry

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Haikus for the times

August 26, 2009Jon Brooks 2 Comments »

The web site Jobacle is holding a contest calling for haikus about work. Turns out there are a lot of work and job-related haikus on the Web. Some faves germane to the current economy, gleaned from here, here, here, here, and here:

Poverty Is So In
Bad economy
means no big bonus for me.
Must steal more staplers.
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Editing client [...]

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