Corporate Haiku

start a telecom

good idea at the time

it was not to be


limitless hubris

share price climbing to the sky

Andersen again?


I bought Worldcom too

balance sheets looked excellent

can you spare some change?

you're the poet. you tell me.


BTW - I did not write the above. It was a simple cut and paste operation from my news website.

what do i know. im just a ham and egger. just curious if the syllables and whatever other rules there are for haiku are observed. (of course i think probably to really be a haiku it has to be in , uh, you know , japanese, but, uh, ...)


brad


p.s. funny anyways

I can't remember the official Haiku rules. besides japanese I think Haikus are also supposed to be about nice things like plants and animals and reflections on pond water in the evening. not about global capitalist pigs lying to each other:)

Haik originally had 5,7,5 syllables. They can be about anything, as long as it's short and sweet. Jean Sheppard used to write smoe great ones.

Phat,


I gotta find them. Sheppard has always been one of my favorites. Rmember his PBS series?


John

The only thing I remember from PBS is the Xmas special. I gets replayed every year or two during the holidays. I used to have a couple of collections of his short stories, but have lent them out one too many times.


What I rally loved were his radio broadcasts from that club (was it the Gaslight?) in greenwich village.