Election Haikus

Hope is truly human
Foresight, Possibility
Even mice feel fear

The line is so long
But I know that it's worth it
I'm calling in sick

Maverick or Change?
Each one bailed out Big Brother.
I'm too big to fail.

Eight long years of waiting
Now is time to change
Please no mavericks, just hope

Barack Obama
Ending the Winter of our discontent?
Hope there's no Bradley

I want to believe
And yet I am still afraid
That it is a lie

I don't care who wins
Actually, that's not true
I'm scared I will lose

I hope my guy wins
Or this country is so screwed
Vote Republican

it's nearly over
thank god the ads will end soon
and we can move on

important issues
war, peace, and prosperity
not earmarks and pork

It's one day away
I'm itchy in my seat. Dreamed
I forgot to vote

Some fear senselessly.
Others follow him blindly.
I still hold out hope.

What should we do now...
Vote for an idiot or
vote for a nut case?

Vote for Obama
It's what I'm going to do
Because I'm a moose

Barack Obama
is Change We Can Believe In.
At least, I hope so.

Eight years of fear,
Unnecessary violence
Let us not fear change

With names...

Obama victory:
Unfamiliar hope returns.
McCain? We're so screwed.

And without...

Two different men.
The choice could not be more clear;
Let's not screw this up

It's bigger than me.
We're the ones we've been waiting
for. Oh yes, we can.

Socialism sucks
Obama is a marxist
Vote McCain/Palin

When it's all over,
Voting all finished, counted.
I think hope will win.

Maverick Shampoo
washes your brain squeaky clean
Blather, Mince, Repeat

Satirists unsure
Job security or change
Which will help them more?

black and white shadows
it's not just skin color
these are all gray times

Big Top parade fun!
Bright colors and flashy things!
Meanwhile... clowns rape you.

One man enters as
One man leaves a nation in
Peril, Change We Need

I will vote this year
although I want neither man
eeeny-meeny mi-

if I had voted
absentee I'd go to sleep
till tomorrow nite.

So small a pen mark
Left evidence of intent
To live still or move

Mav'rick or Marxist
Your "Hope" is shrouded by lies
Run while you still can

Local middle school
Your gym holds our tomorrow
Yet smells like fish Sticks

The best and the worst
Elections bring them both out
Wednesday scares me

Local middle school
Your gym holds our tomorrow
Yet smells like fish sticks

Once every four years
A spectator sport arrives
I live up North, eh?

See a pretty girl
Sometimes you just can't help it
Oh wait, ELECTION

Whichever one wins
Your country needs you to lead.
Don't screw this up, please.

Is America
Now able to swiftly buck
The sprial of 'same?'

Is America
Now able to swiftly buck
The spiral of 'same?'

Here I go again,
Hoping America's wang
Won't stir up drama.

Bush Voted McCain
McCain has voted with Bush
Who will you vote with?

hanging chads of past
tomorrow will all break clean
redemption is ours

Should I vote for black,
or should I vote for the old?
I don't like either one.

election signs still pepper
the landscape like dried leaves
after early voting

See a pretty girl
Sometimes you just can't help it
Oh wait, ELECTION

Local Elections
How can Stevens win?
Not that I'm upset...

The president heads our armed forces
I'd rather have a soldier
Than a child

Backing is trying
because trust isn't easy,
but neither is loss.

Democracy wins,
either way you look at it.
we'll all find out soon.

Two Evils Compete
Big Government spreads quickly
Ron Paul is the man

A campaign promise:
He likes big butts and can't lie.
Mix-A-Lot: '08.

what am i to do
when i can't bullshit about
politics next week

I'll vote tomorrow / eney meney miney moe / always a blue state

it is now the time
we all get to stand in line
and make our voice heard

People dying now
Need Doctors and no more war
We are so screwed.

Obama and I
share a vision of the world.
It includes you, too.

Who else wants to see
The candidates settle this
In a boxing match?

Pennsylvania
Colorado Virginia
Iowa Ohio

Crisp autumn leaves fall.
Pen to paper, change the world.
Hope springs eternal.

Oh, we are so close.
Just one more day. One. More. Day.
A fresh start for all.

Red white and blueberry
I am craving real hope
We have eight enough

I would have voted
But roll-scrubbing officials
Think voters are dead!

Goodbye last eight years
Don't want to see you again
I have found better

What does the loser
do with all his balloons? Is
there still a party?

A mish-mash of noise
Long-term deficits building
No solutions here

When it's all over,
Voting all finished, counted.
I think hope will win.

Keep your powder dry
Hope/Change is coming for sure
Kiss your guns goodbye

Words have filled the world
With weary expectation
And fear of false hope

Soon I will find out
if people are smarter or
dumber than I thought.

Hoping for a change
Even us Canadians
We watch and we wait

When will madness end?
November 4th is the time
America wins?

swallow the blue pill.
Hope not your thing? No worries.
Swallow the red pill.

And so it might be
The Revolution Will Be
Televised. We'll see...

I'll cast my vote, true
Then stop paying attention
Third party won't win

In either event
Tomorrow brings someone new.
I, for one, can't wait.

the country stood still
war and greed were the answer
eight years down the drain

Economic issues.
It's only gonna get worse.
No more anti-Bush schwag.

I can't believe how
After all the endless months
This can be so close

So long, Mr. Bush
You've been a disgrace world-wide
I'll smile when you go

ze, can I post one more?

The next president
Barack Hussein Obama
That's the change we need.

I helped rock the vote
I played each candidates drums
will 'hope' help 'change' things?

I shall cultivate
A strategic apathy
Whoever wins, wins

A socialist President
is what the young want
They are so wrong

McCain, Obama
it doesn't matter who wins
Either way, we lose :(

I'm a citizen,
but don't feel "American".
Accident of birth.

a fairly stark choice
steady leader vs. "I can
see Russia from my house"

If I hear one more
Ad about Props. 2 or 8
I will go insane

One more election
Will come and go, status quo.
Want real third parties.

In God we Trust it
Electronic Ballot Fails
Delegates Counted

McCain's creepy smile;
Ron Paul's Love Revolution;
Obama brings change.

Tuesday already?
Can't buy booze until polls close
I guess I'll go vote

My friends, he's not a
Socialist. But if he was,
How bad could it be?

I thought that I had
already seen The Dark Knight
earlier this year...

observing the polls
the voters don't even vote
whoops! polls are wrong now.

A lover and a
fighter offer hope or fear
as the country's fate

red leaves fall on ground
it is the season of change
bush referendum

I don't really feel
like I'm either D or R...
Guess my vote's wasted.

it's november fifth
a cool autumn breeze blows by
the winds of freedom

I'd rather have hope
than fear and anger any day.
I hope you would too.

Change is on the way
Regardless who wins the race--
Life will still go on.

try to remember
thankfulness
Voting is a privilege

Ready to jump in
Itching to vote, lets do this
Democracy fun

I can see Russia?
Palin for Vice-President?
Strikes fear in my heart!

Cast your whole vote, not
a strip of paper merely,
but your whole influence.

Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

hope springs eternal
bow not to pressure nor peer
consult your conscience

He's a terrorist:
Manchurian candidate.
My friends, believe me!

Obama vote yes
Obama Obama vote
Obama vote yes

There goes another
Perfectly good billion
Dollars down the drain

Change comes regardless
What we really need right now
is some sanity.

All will stand so still
Holding a collective breath
For revolution

Voted absentee
so that I could just ignore
the last two weeks' crap.

come on C.N.N.
do not bore me with stats
24/365

One day can change all
Anticipation is big
Let's hope for the best.

Which one do I choose?
Big or Bigger Government.
I vote... for no one.

why is it that I
just look to the future now
the present needs me

The Fear Mongering
Ignorance as an Ideal
No Thanks, GOP

Floods of ads can't stop
The votes from piling up
Like the leaves falling.

so tired of all this
is it tuesday yet, my dear?
soon it will be done.

Hope? Will it endure?
Only time can tell the truth
For a term, or two

Need to use our brains.
Too much hatred and fear and
not enough debate.

Powell was so right.
What if he was a Muslim?
End the mindless fear.

Pretty young black man
Says he'll make our country rock
Hope that old guy fails

We will not forget
These eight years of elephants.
Hello there donkey.

"Your voice must be heard"
the options don't speak for me
I sent it in blank

Please call me no more.
I'll vote when I vote, relax
Hope is on the way.

haikus about votes
should have functionality
to be voted up/down

Title: Robocalls

Me for president!
That other guy is evil,
And eats babies, too.

Cindy and Michelle
Can finally return to
The kids, the poor things

This is my Tuesday.
Not just any other day.
And I'm on fire.

I pulled the lever.
Voted for my candidate.
Diebold, don't fuck me.

left, right, or backwards
democracy needs a box
none of the above

Scary Sarah's fears
Palin comparison to
My a-Biden hope

I vote my world view
I won't vote color or age
Don't get distracted

enough election
our UK media drowns
vote and have done, friends

I can't talk with dad,
mom, Phil, Dave or Uncle Jim
'til Wednesday morning.

My heart almost bursts with pride
At probable chance
Of this country's step forward

A daughter of slaves
One hundred six years old now
Lives to see the day

Too embarrassing.
Backwards haiku about pride.
I am a moron.

Almost Every Four Years
My Heart is Broken Badly
Not This Time, Goof-balls

Tornado warnings
in my boyhood Nebraska
felt a lot like this.

candidates are bad
i simply don't like either
third party it is.

Is it over yet?
Please, please, please, please, please, please, please
let it be over.

Fear or Hope directs
Do we want a president
Like 'Cain or Able?

airwaves not the same
all the dead air coming now
no more campaign ads

The advertising
stop the negativity
thankful one more day

Republicans lie,
lack a conscience, soul...
I vote Obama

Blue state girl voted
Wants to do more to help out
First time volunteer!

waves of nausea
previous two were so bad
i still feel quite numb

My vote has been cast
If Barack is the loser
Move to Vancouver

nothing in this world
can save us from ourselves if
we're wrong again

Black, baby killer.
Terrorist, hope-mongering.
Don't believe the lies.

here in canada
we can choose from more than two
that's democracy

crap or gourmet food
that is what this choice is like
but tons eat fast food

What could be worse than
Eight years of President Bush?
I'm optimistic.

Goodbye, good ol' boy
I'm casting my vote for change
Not a lipsticked pig

Make dot with felt pen
Confirm: stare for three seconds
I can exhale now.

For Californians like me:

They say, "Save Marriage!"
They mean subjective freedom.
We are all equals.

For the rest of us:

Don't believe the smears,
Trust your instincts about him:
Genuine leader.

On pins and needles.
I can't wait til it's over.
One more freaking day.

the door does not close
after the election, stay
he will need your help

Cindy and Michelle
Can finally return to
The kids, the poor things

Educate yourselves.
You don't know what Marxism is,
nor democracy

and yet they let you
choose Leader of the Free World.
Yeah, no shit I'm scared.

The campaign count-down
is a media field day.
Maybe that's the point.

When you don't reside
in a swing state, it all seems
so very distant.

In Canada, my
first vote, a young man told me:
people die for this.

dear good citizen
tomorrow the world watches
will it rain or shine

Both Parties will fail
You should just stay home in bed
Buy a NeoCube

All entertainment,
president celebrities
are no help to us.

Australia knows
Why do you make it so hard?
Vote black, don't go back

two long years i've pined
for Obama's election
it's almost arrived?

both sides of the aisle
are both sides of the same coin.
welcome big brother.

Stop bothering me
About this dumb election
I am not 18

My navel lint has
more experience than you
Caribou Barbie

Though I'm not of age
I'd take Hope, had I a choice
Go make your vote count!

Oh crazy old man
If you do indeed win this
Just please do not die

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Hope and change so close
My goodness America
Do not screw this up

tomorrow tears fall
of joy or of deep sorrow
new world either way

I want to believe
one day I'll be proud to be
an american

Living in a swing state
Suddenly my vote matters
much more than before!

On a quiet fall day
we orbit around the sun
pull levers - hoping

another election is here
once more, I must cast a vote
I write in: "no, thanks."

Waiting to call Dad
oh the guilty pleasure of
saying, told you so.

dont lean red or blue
this country needs unity
soo...RON PAUL FOR PREZ!!

They're Republicrats
What's a vote for real change, then?
Libertarian!

i really really
really really really want
this to be over.

red white black blue green
one gray of time one of skin
love your dirty old town

I live in Illinois
Obama will take the state
Vote Ron Paul '08!

Vote And Save Us All
From Troubles That Plague Us This Fall
Change The World Starts Now

Uphill climbs are hard
But with persistence and hope
We'll survive winter

i am freaking out
deep within a blue city
the world is watching

Neither of these guys
do I want; I wish, Ron Paul,
it were you instead.

Swing voters? Just chumps?
Hope they get it right this time.
One in two ain't bad.

A homeless man named
Maverick asked me for change
I only have coins

we need change right now
don't forget - vote tomorrow
history is yours

Ted freaking Stevens
It's been forty years too long
I am from AK

Elections are fun
You can vote either party
Vote, vote, vote, vote, vote

my first election
what effect will i really have
i am torn between

Is it over yet?
Is the voting over yet?
Is it over yet?

After this is through
Electoral college? Out.
Fuck you, bible belt.

red white black and biue
plum(ber) will vote in the last gray
petro is true green

Democracy fails
as we are all so stupid
still, do what we can

Democracy fails
as we are all so stupid
still, do what we can

Step into the booth
Hope the machine registers
My vote correctly

One or the other.
Is there any difference
when you've lost your rights?

Change - not in my hands
One country votes "World Leader"
Don't you fuck this up

Fear, stress, hate? Please, no!
I'm focused on feeling
utterly grateful

Like Futurama
Jack Johnson and John Jackson
Someone rescue us

Iraq: blue thumb ink
America: Line is long
I think I'll go home

古池や蛙飛込む水の音

Is he citizen?
Is there any question here?
what will happen next?

slept in past seven
how long will I have to wait?
no line; easy vote!

fox noose sings faux blues
and serves neo con queso
in a hot despot

return to reason
diplomacy, respect. give us
solid leadership

Rationality
Irrefrangibility
Unification

I'm disappointed
I had nobody hot to
vote for in '08.

Sarah Palin
Light bulb
Sucks light out
of the dim lit room

(from Ze: not quite a haiku...perhaps ::

the sarah palin light bulb
sucks light out of a dim room
what a crappy light bulb

)

love a candidate
who owes no favors to any
pol in washington

voting to cancel
the vote of your (red) neighbor?
time to move, perhaps.

Pull the red lever
to lock in my vote — gives a
satisfying thunk.

http://thehaikudiaries.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/election-day-6/

So many bubbles
Really only came for one
With hope, a faint smile

I choo choo choose you
Lead us to a better life
That last guy suck'd ass

A black president
One that speaks of change and hope
I choose to believe

sick of the waiting
another tie in results
wait till tomorrow

Holy fucking shit.
Such conflicting exit polls!
I hope my guy wins.

If you vote for him
Just because he's "African"
You are still racist

voters heard
barack sounds like barry
no bonus for me

fifty two point three
three hundred and sixty four
obama oh-eight

red lips and blue eyes
amber waves of hair... have a
black and white cookie

moose for obama
polar bears for obama
sith lords for mccain

Torture? Shock and Awe?
Where did America go?
The nightmare is over

Snow covers cars, trees,
glistens on the long hard road
ahead beautiful.

It's a brand new day.
Hope upon hope upon hope.
We really did it.

A breath of fresh air.
Civil rights referendum?
Not if you are gay.

Historical Day
Yes Wii can, Nintendo Rocks
I mean, Yes we can