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Brechtian Haiku

 
Brechtian Haiku
 
CHARISMA:

The man with the gun
at the end of his arm
has obvious charm.
 
DEMOCRACY:

The free expression of ideas
and the use of listening devices
to hear those ideas.
 
FETUS ENVY:

The belief that life is sacred
from conception
until birth.
 
NATIONAL SECURITY:

A defence mechanism
manufactured
by the Defence Industry.
 
NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS:

The nightly release
of toxic waste
into the Love Canal.
 

 
Threepenny Proverbs
 
A fool and his money are soon insufferable.
 
Birds of a feather are shot together.
 
The Church is the Mother of Invention.
 
Peace is the continuation of State Policy by covert means.
 
Early to bed and early to rise places a man under police surveillance.
 
Beauty is in the lap of the shareholder.
 
The human race is not to the swift.
 
The early bird has to eat worms.
 
God protects drunks and politicians.
 
Reality: love it or leave it.
 
The hypochondriac is a true believer.
 
Redundancy is its own reward.
 
Conformity is the sincerest form of democracy.
 
 
Excerpted From:
Idiomatic, Poems 1978-1992 by Thomas Good
[Small World Press]
© 1992, Thomas Good
 


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