Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Haiku News
Posted by Jim Poyser on Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:00 AM
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Forward on Climate
March drew some forty thousand
earth inhabitants
Canadians and
Americans both came to
Washington DC
I was among the
crowd, excited to shout my
hopes to Obama
he was absent, though,
in Florida golfing with
some Texas oil men
still we can hope he
says no to Keystone XL
or else it's game o'er
Keystone XL is
a pipeline to disaster,
the eco-calypse
day ended with a
dance party on the grounds of
the National Mall
ya gotta guess there's
no dancing when the fuel dudes
group - 'cpt on our graves
this is the turning
point tipping upon us the
place of no return
can you get in the
game? can you make commitment
to our Mother Earth?
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Haiku News
Posted by Jim Poyser on Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:00 AM
Carnival Triumph
cruise ship, beset by troubles,
is a big failure
passengers endure
long food lines, broken toilets,
smells that overwhelm
worst of all there is
water water ev'rywhere
- none that they can drink
disease outbreak is
possible; norovirus
could ravage the ship
it's like this boat is
petri dish for humans to
study our foibles
I've never seen a
more apt metaphor for earth's
demise than this cruise
we started off with
such great plans only to have
ev'rything go wrong
fire in the engine
room, power much diminished,
food, water, grow scarce
without help they would
surely have resorted to
cannibalism
instead they arrived
drawn by able tugboats to
waiting arms on shore
cruise ship, beset by troubles,
is a big failure
passengers endure
long food lines, broken toilets,
smells that overwhelm
worst of all there is
water water ev'rywhere
- none that they can drink
disease outbreak is
possible; norovirus
could ravage the ship
it's like this boat is
petri dish for humans to
study our foibles
I've never seen a
more apt metaphor for earth's
demise than this cruise
we started off with
such great plans only to have
ev'rything go wrong
fire in the engine
room, power much diminished,
food, water, grow scarce
without help they would
surely have resorted to
cannibalism
instead they arrived
drawn by able tugboats to
waiting arms on shore
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Haiku News
Posted by Jim Poyser on Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:00 AM
poor USPS,
bleeding money, resorts to
taking a day off
could Saturday join
Sunday as day where mailbox
is just a décor?
sadly, most of the
mail I get is bills or mags
I'd rather not have
I've tried stopping damn
coupons but the fusillade of
crap is unceasing
in the olden days
I knew my carrier, Don,
and his interests
he kept an eye out
for elderly neighbors in
case they needed help
now my mail is brought
in a small truck by someone
I have never met
snow, rain, heat nor gloom
of night didn't stay their rounds;
t'was mighty profit
but also advance
of technology - boots on
the ground, obsolete
still, carriers tie
it all together like the
Big Lebowski's rug
bleeding money, resorts to
taking a day off
could Saturday join
Sunday as day where mailbox
is just a décor?
sadly, most of the
mail I get is bills or mags
I'd rather not have
I've tried stopping damn
coupons but the fusillade of
crap is unceasing
in the olden days
I knew my carrier, Don,
and his interests
he kept an eye out
for elderly neighbors in
case they needed help
now my mail is brought
in a small truck by someone
I have never met
snow, rain, heat nor gloom
of night didn't stay their rounds;
t'was mighty profit
but also advance
of technology - boots on
the ground, obsolete
still, carriers tie
it all together like the
Big Lebowski's rug
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Haiku News
Posted by Jim Poyser on Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:00 AM
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I-70 was
site of a fifty car, truck
chaotic pile-up
a Canadian
man killed, multiple lives were
forever altered
nearby, elephants
disembarked their trailer and
shivered in the cold
snowy conditions
and a hell-bent hurry were
cited as causes
perfect example
of the tragedy of the
carmons - er, commons
and t'was not the sole
interstate suffering such
a horrific fate
in Michigan three
were killed in a thirty-car,
chain-reaction crash
near Cincinnati
one hundred vehicles were
tangled together
the state motto of
Indiana is "Crossroads
of America"
I keep thinking of
those massive beasts, cold, confused,
helpless to forget
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Haiku News
Posted by Jim Poyser on Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:00 AM
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I attended the 
field hearing for IPL's
Harding upgrade plan
the proposal: to
improve pollution controls,
reduce mercury
plan will cost hundreds
of millions of dollars passed
onto ratepayers
those in attendance
didn't think that was fair, nor
do they support coal
coal, while a cheap source
of energy, is a source
of greenhouse gases
greenhouse gases are
warming the earth, making the
weather chaotic ...
acidifying
oceans, intensifying
invasive species...
causing deeper droughts,
more raucous rainstorms, and a
melting Arctic Sea
why can't we progress
into the future instead
of mulling the past?
this is our moment
our time to tell kids we changed
things for the better
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Haiku News
Posted by Jim Poyser on Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:00 AM
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according to a 
new report Lance Armstrong will
come clean on Oprah
this reminds me of
James Frey getting his ass kicked
for made-up memoir
boy did he have his
head handed to him by high
minded TV queen
popularity
of author fell into a
million l'il pieces
if Frey had said his
book was mostly fiction I
would still have loved it
but if Armstrong had
admitted doping then it
would have dissed his rep
not to mention pissed
off all his competitors
who weren't fellow dopes
nobody entered
baseball's Hall of Fame because
players still draw shame
our competitive
society can lead to
such shenanigans
in the process the
mighty may fall but losers
still don't get the press
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