A. E. Stallings: Greekdebtcrisishaiku

(source: Corfu Blues)
no copyright infringement intended

Europa, we’re through:

Take back your privative a-

vowals: I, O, U.

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Why is Hope the one

campaign promise still stuck in

the jar, Pandora?

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Tragic ironies:

Stock Market’s not on Wall Street,

here it’s Sophocles.

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Snowfall. Parthenon.

Is it a miracle, or

Hell freezing over?

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Finance minister:

fashion shoot in Paris Match,

swanky apartment.

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It’s like the movies,

Only not Zorba the Greek,

Thelma and Louise.

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To: Lord Byron--Sir

Greek loan approved but held up

Now that you’re dead. Stop.

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Easter: Anarchists

quit occupying buildings,

crack red eggs, not glass.

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Alphabet of angst—

Ach! Is all that’s left between

Drama and drachma.

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Panic, oligarchs,

Democracy, tragedy,

dilemma, chaos.

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Solon promises

to devalue the coinage:

600 B.C.

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Grexit—so ugly!

So Latinate! What’s wrong with

Hellenexodus?

(source: Partisan)

(A. E. Stallings)