{"id":4148,"date":"2005-10-12T18:22:03","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T22:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/10\/12\/chuck-eliot-haiku-needs-you\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:30","slug":"chuck-eliot-haiku-needs-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/10\/12\/chuck-eliot-haiku-needs-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck & Eliot, haiku needs you!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s a job far too big for the <\/FONT>Haiku Sheriff<\/FONT><\/A>, or his deputies:<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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YourCongress<\/EM>.com proudly <\/FONT><\/FONT>states<\/FONT><\/A>:<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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HAIKUS [sic]<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Nothing says the U.S. Congress like Japanese poetry. <\/FONT><\/B><\/TD><\/TR>
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You can read our hilarious Congressional Haikus for free by  \"laughing<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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visiting the YourCongress.com <\/FONT>Congressional Directory<\/FONT><\/A>, selecting <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the Member of Congress whose haiku you want to read, and then <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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scrolling down to the “Haiku” section of their profile. There’s a <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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haiku for every Member of Congress and delegate (DC, Puerto Rico, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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American Samoa, Guam, and U.S. Virgin Islands). <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Can we be frank, here?  Not only are the selections not<\/EM> haiku or senryu<\/A>,<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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they are <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>not <\/EM>funny.  We found the page “thanks” to a Google referral that we <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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traced <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>back to the YourCongress<\/EM> page on Senator Sarbanes<\/FONT><\/A>.  Here’s the proffered<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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haiku:<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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 \"erasingS\"<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Once a Rhodes Scholar
Senator for a long time
which sport did he do?<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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          [f\/k\/a<\/EM> Ed. Disclaimer: this is not haiku!] <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Here are the so-called “haiku” for my State’s Senators:<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Charles Schumer<\/FONT><\/A>  “schumerMug”<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Issue of the day
Chuck will have something to say
not camera shy<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Sen. Clinton<\/A><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Black pants uniform
You’re in the Senate, not jail
That was the White House <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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 [f\/k\/a<\/EM> Ed. Disclaimer: this is not haiku!]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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The f\/k\/a<\/EM> Gang would gladly pay higher taxes to increase the budget<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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of the Haiku Sheriff, who could probably operate successfully worldwide <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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from right here in the Empire State.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"spitzerG\"  Perhaps Chuck Schumer or AG Eliot <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT>Spitzer will take up <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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this crusade.  There are a lot of haiku poets in <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT>New York State — and <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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we vote!<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT>  (update<\/STRONG><\/EM>: As pointed out at Point of Law<\/A>, on Oct. 13, 2005, Mr.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Spitzer and his staff should have some extra time on their hands — freeing <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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up resources to police against deceptive and fraudulent haiku claims.)<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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