He vs Him in Haiku

He has billboards, Him had billboards

He billboards no message, Him billboards no message

He wishes to be Him

He is always in crisis, Him dove into crisis

He is a solitary runner, Him must have audience

He stumbles in crisis, Him had press conferences

He has a garage man cave, Him has a swamp house

He wants to play with kids, Him is not kidding

He plans like a child, Him never a child

He works hard to look cool, Him never changed look

He is blinded by the limelight, Him uses limelight to get a tan.

He is a stagehand, Him is the speaker

He is a poser, Him strikes a pose

He wants to be everyone’s friend, Him has no friends

He gives vacation in crisis, Him pushes staff to collapse

He giveth, Him taketh

He wants to be new age, Him wants to be ageless

He wants power, Him assumes he is powerful

He wimps, Him a bully

He seeks advice from higher, Him thinks nothing higher

Him believes in a higher, Him gives the higher advice

He cowers on his knees, Him holds a whip

He believes, Him wants to be believed

He stares at the future, Him wants to be the future

He hides from decisions, Him thinks his decisions are perfect

He tries to look perfect, Him believes he is perfect

He plays with his hair, Him has hair of iron

He is played, Him is a player

Him is leaderless, He is unwanted leader

He dreams of being a leader, Him kicks the leader

He thinks he is Godly, Him plays God

11 Thoughts on “Haikus submitted by reader about our mayor

  1. rufusx on April 22, 2020 at 10:50 pm said:

    Haikus have 3 (three) lines and 17 (seventeen) syllables.

  2. l3wis on April 23, 2020 at 7:33 am said:

    Wow, it took over 12 hours for an armchair editor to pipe up. Thanks.

  3. rufusx on April 23, 2020 at 8:16 am said:

    I learned the structure of Haikus in grade school (Lowell) 57 years ago.

  4. “Name in quotes for no reason” on April 23, 2020 at 11:54 am said:

    These must be some of those new fangled Common Core haikus?

  5. "Very Stable Genius" on April 23, 2020 at 12:09 pm said:

    He holds a parade, Him vacillates like a windblown Macy’s balloon.

    ( and Woodstock adds: “Unstable Genius, I mean ‘NIQFNR’ likes to practice intellectual chauvinism in an attempt to intimidate and destroy”…. “But that’s because he can’t deal with facts”….)

  6. The real question is who can we find to run against him in 2022? One minute he is saying shut the city down, the next let us all get outside and run 100 miles….

  7. Borugard on April 23, 2020 at 1:22 pm said:

    Damn that was bad. Lay off the pipe.

  8. D@ily Spin on April 23, 2020 at 2:30 pm said:

    Comparing TenHaken to Huether? Gives Huether to much credit.

    He bought into this. Him caused this

  9. anominous on April 23, 2020 at 2:30 pm said:

    can we get back to
    crying nazi
    over your burger joint closing

  10. anonymous on April 23, 2020 at 3:07 pm said:

    Is this suppose to convey He has TenHaken and Him has Huether!?

  11. Fluff McFluffin on April 24, 2020 at 7:04 pm said:

    My God that was terrible. How much time did you waste creating that? If you spent over an hour on that you might fall into the category of spiteful stalker.

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