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Peak Oil Haiku

Unread postby BigTex » Tue 13 May 2008, 17:46:48

Please place your peak oil haikus below.

5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables

(There's a little disagreemt on this, but let's use the 5-7-5 format if possible)

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Peak oil is coming
Rude as a hairy nutsack
It will make life hard
:)
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Re: Peak Oil Haiku

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Tue 13 May 2008, 19:15:53

everybody dead
man that is quite a bummer
fuck haiku
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Re: Peak Oil Haiku

Unread postby DomusAlbion » Tue 13 May 2008, 19:20:56

Penultimate Man
Standing in a Haiku Storm
Dumb-founded, stuck, lost.
"Modern Agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food."
-- Albert Bartlett

"It will be a dark time. But for those who survive, I suspect it will be rather exciting."
-- James Lovelock
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Re: Peak Oil Haiku

Unread postby Aaron » Tue 13 May 2008, 19:36:10

Face Melting Music
And Triple Decker Burgers
Miss Them Already
The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt, but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise... economics is a form of brain damage.

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Re: Peak Oil Haiku

Unread postby Ludi » Tue 13 May 2008, 19:41:47

Nothing for dinner
Squirrels are looking tasty
Thank god for slingshots

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Re: Peak Oil Haiku

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Tue 13 May 2008, 19:42:03

Albion's Home is blue
Syllable count could be true
But you notice I just don't care.


Fuck Haiku.
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Re: Peak Oil Haiku

Unread postby Ludi » Tue 13 May 2008, 19:46:04

View from the bunker
Hippies eating strawberries
No sign of ass-pants

- submitted by my husband
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Re: Peak Oil Haiku

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Tue 13 May 2008, 19:52:24

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '
')- submitted by my husband
Say hi to your husband for me. Sounds like the creative sort.
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Re: Peak Oil Haiku

Unread postby basil_hayden » Tue 13 May 2008, 19:52:52

The trip across peak
Will be so interesting
Even fun, sans crash
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Re: Peak Oil Haiku

Unread postby DomusAlbion » Tue 13 May 2008, 20:10:55

Jevon's paradox
Conserve or consume it all
die off either way :cry:
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Re: Peak Oil Haiku

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Tue 13 May 2008, 20:23:01

Earthquakes in China
Many die from tidal waves
Write five sylablles.
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Re: Peak Oil Haiku

Unread postby eastbay » Tue 13 May 2008, 20:30:13

One person will win
West Virginia votes today
Now please shut your traps
Got Dharma?

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Re: Peak Oil Haiku

Unread postby idomar » Tue 13 May 2008, 20:33:18

For our love of oil
Our land and lives we do spoil
Fear we the recoil
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Re: Peak Oil Haiku

Unread postby Plantagenet » Tue 13 May 2008, 20:33:29

Those stupid bastards
Wouldn't do a goddamn thing
Now we got peak oil
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Re: Peak Oil Haiku

Unread postby idomar » Tue 13 May 2008, 20:40:46

Solar energy
Could radiationly be
Saviour, not likely
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Re: Peak Oil Haiku

Unread postby greenworm » Tue 13 May 2008, 20:47:25

The needle on E
Should have taken last exit
Cause I gotta pee.
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Re: Peak Oil Haiku

Unread postby idomar » Tue 13 May 2008, 20:54:59

The smartest brains here
Have seen the future and fear
A world without beer
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Re: Peak Oil Haiku

Unread postby PrairieMule » Tue 13 May 2008, 21:10:09

When I fill my tank
I skip house payment to bank
their fault economy sank
If you give a man a fish you will have kept him from hunger for a day. If you teach a man to fish he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
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Re: Peak Oil Haiku

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Tue 13 May 2008, 21:12:44

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('greenworm', 'T')he needle on E
Should have taken last exit
Cause I gotta pee.


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It can't get better than this
Laughing my ass off.
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Re: Peak Oil Haiku

Unread postby BigTex » Tue 13 May 2008, 22:41:45

Fat pigs in the mud
One day the mud will dry up
"PEAK MUD!" they will say
:)
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