Haiku News half-year in review, Part II

by Jim Poyser @jimpoyser

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2000 Yahoo
workers will not celebrate
their being laid off

four year old offers
nine bags of marijuana
for a smoke and tell

Ninth Symphony is
Silenced by ringtone of an
iPhone Philistine

anti-piracy
bill sinks into the high seas
of a metaphor

No Child Left Behind
finally lifted from the
joke of tyranny

HBO cancels
'Luck' cause horses in the show
didn't have any

tea party darlin'
Mourdock docks Dick Lugar his
Long-held Senate seat

Pfizer recalls birth
control packs; you might name your
baby Placebo

secret Vatican
documents leaked; cliché, but
butler did do it!

400 parts per
million carbon milestone hails
sure Apocalypse

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