Posted on 12/31/2008 2:48:55 PM PST by Charles Henrickson
Well, it has been an interesting year here on the DUmmie FUnnies: the primaries, Operation Chaos, the general campaign and election, BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome), PMS (Palin Madness Syndrome), and the brief micro-honeymoon Obambi enjoyed with the Looney Left (if you blinked, you missed it). All of it chronicled and ribbed for your pleasure here on the DUFUs!
The DUmmies, too, are in a reflective mood, as they take stock of the year now ending. Some of them have even expressed their thoughts in poetical form, using the Japanese haiku (5-7-5) as their model. Apparently, there is a blog called the rude pundit that solicited such submissions. Well, by golly, one of the DUmmies, Tangerine LaBamba (a screen name, perhaps), excitedly reports her triumph, in this THREAD, "My haiku made it onto the Rude Pundit!!!!" So let's see what all the haiku hullabaloo is about, in Rising Sun Red, while the commentary of your humble guest correspondent, Charles Henrickson, himself the wag tailoring the doggerel, is in the [brackets]:
My haiku made it onto the Rude Pundit!!!!
[Better yet, you made the DUmmie FUnnies!!!!]
I would like to thank everyone who made this possible - my agent . . .
[Who asks, "Where's my 10% commission?"]
my parents . . .
[Ma and Pa LaBamba, who named their little bundle of joy, "Tangerine."]
my cleaning lady . . .
[Whose work is NEVER finished.]
my exorcist . . .
[Whose work is NEVER finished.]
and, of course, all the little people out there who did everything they could to help me make this dream of mine, this crazy, silly dream that never had a chance of coming true, come true.
[Enough already! So where is this prize-winning haiku?]
All praise to some kind of deity who might be more wonderful than I am, but I can't think of any right now.
[Not even Gaia?]
I'm so excited!
[I just can't hide it
I'm about to lose control
I think I like it]
(The music swells.)
[So does your head. But Tangerine, baby, in your excitement you forgot to show us your haiku! So let's go to that rude pundit site for a moment and behold your magnum opus . . .]
If I live too long
Spring will bring another Bush.
I hope I die first.
[Here lies Tangerine
A Democrat Underground
From Bush Derangement]
I bow before your greatness. . . .
[Chaucer. Shakespeare. Milton. Tennyson. LaBamba. A prodigious pantheon of poetic powerhouses.]
I like it, but it's not a haiku. In fact, none of them are. Those are senryus--same syllable count, but it's about human life rather than nature.
[You can't be senryus!]
Very cool. I love the Rude Pundit.
[What about the Useless Pundidiot, William Rivers Pitt?]
This calls for dancing rodents. Conga rats!
[Conga rats from your fellow Demon rats!]
Forsooth... Basho is in deep sh*t.
[DUmmie Tandalayo_Scheisskopf compares Tangerine LaBamba to the master of the haiku, Matsuo Basho. (Yes, I had to google "Basho," but I wanted an excuse to put "Tandalayo_Scheisskopf" and "Tangerine LaBamba" in the same sentence.)]
"All the little people." I feel like a leprechaun.
[You smell like a leper colony.]
Your haiku impressed
Some guy with a bitter blog
Whoop de frickin' do
[Hey, tough crowd, tough crowd
Tangerine gets no respect
Go take a haiku!]
That, good sir, is inspired!
Oh, that is a good one, Charles! You managed to conflate both the “bitter clingers” with the weather. Well done!
Michelle Obama whines.
Six hundred dollar earrings.
She wears no stockings.
So drafty
Mom and Dad’s basement on a winter night
Bush’s fault
Rahm Emanuel,
Ballet dancer and thug,
Chicago Machine.
On little rat feet
Obama’s hope and change
Fool the clueless hordes.
I give up. I bow to your superior poetic talent.
LOL!
Who's Who at DUFU:
DUmmies, KOmmies, and HUffies.
It's PJ's Playhouse!
Rod Blagojevich
Corruption, his companion
Barack knows him not
HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL !!! Almost .
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