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The Wall Street Journal's poetry contest gave us a series of haikus imagining Saddam's death. The first is from John Gooderham even follows the rule of mentioning a season:
Underground Saddam
Thermobaric bombs away
Springtime love and peace
Groovy! Brian Donnelly, meanwhile, submits this haiku inspired by Simon & Garfunkel:
Saddam sings, "I am
Iraq, I am an island."
Soon: Sounds of Silence.
Guess they've all come, to look for America. Finally, Yoav Griver envisions the aftermath:
All Saddam's portraits
Consigned to dustbins at last
God Bless the U.S.
Yoav, this is the Internet age. They'll go as cut-rate souveneirs on eBay.
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