A comment from a friend on Google+, after he posted a haiku, led me
to ask myself if I had a copy of this 1998 Kyoto treaty talks op-ed that
I wrote all in haiku. And, I did. And yes, what follows was an actual
op-ed column. (Small weekly paper, where I was publisher, and nobody to
say 'You can't do that.')
Clinton seeks freer trade
With Chilean producers
Free wine, grapes, and fruit
Gephardt says "Never"
Dreaming Presidential dreams
Gore stands idly by
Newt and his minions
Will swap taxes for tariffs
Clinton: "See me next year"
He's to Kyoto
To cut back greenhouse gas growth
Subtle irony
Speaking, not doing
More global warming threatens
With his ev'ry word
Business USA
Claims the climate data is
Still insufficient
They preach doom and gloom
For our proud, strong economy
From mandated change
Clinton will stand and speak
To please Japan, Europe, home
And yet fall far short
Back in Washington
Ere his Orient Express
Reno had good news
Investigation
Of campaign violations
Is terminated
Clinton breathes easy
As does loyal Gore besides
But is it over
On the back benches
Hot Republican firebreathers
Demand impeachment
The outside person
Knows all hands are money-green
Has cynic disgust
This is a slice of my philosophical, lay scientific, musical, religious skepticism, and poetic musings. (All poems are my own.) The science and philosophy side meet in my study of cognitive philosophy; Dan Dennett was the first serious influence on me, but I've moved beyond him. The poems are somewhat related, as many are on philosophical or psychological themes. That includes existentialism and questions of selfhood, death, and more. Nature and other poems will also show up here on occasion.
I am really impressed with that one on several levels.
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