Texas boll weevil
bringer of devastation
arrives with the spring
Now, dear DogCanyon readers, it’s your turn.
You know the rules of haiku:
Three lines.
First line five syllables.
Second line seven syllables.
Last line five syllables.
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And leaves with first freeze
Or app of deadly poison.
Cotton worth the cost?
Comes with spring, goes with
Fall. Boll weevil stay away
From my cotton field.
[What a great subject for Haiku, Mary]
robins with their breasts
enflamed, flying straight into
the red, setting sun
Texas cottonfields
Monoculture buffet lines
Fit weevils survive
Gulf of Mexico
Oil Spill Response. We Will Make
It Look Like We Care
(Yeah, yeah. I stole most of this from a BP ad on talkingpointsmemo's home page. So what?)
Gulf Oil Spill Response.
When tragedy strikes, people
Hassle us for help.
BeeP will Clean this up.
Restore Gulf environment.
(Don't hold your breath.)
Piss; crap; grinning dog.
She don't have to clean it up.
I do. That's the rub.
Our response to all
Earth killing capitalists:
Lets build compost piles!
Sprayed for sixty years,
pesticides and herbicides
no change in crop loss.
B.P./boll weevil.
The same threat deserves the same
eradication.
B.P. grinning dog
Craps the Gulf, don't clean it up.
Will not make it right.