red logic



a majority can’t
decide whether to vote, but
a minority can?

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empty spaces



reading most recent
unemployment statistics,
alone in office

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Today’s haiku was brought to you in part by twitter.com. More specifically, it was born of a status message on twitter.com by one of our local journalists, Monica Yant Kinney:

“reading latest unemployment #s alone in the office.”

I paraphrased her tweet a little, which is why I feel compelled to acknowledge it. It struck me as a fine use of a tactic my favorite creative writing professor used to refer to as “show and tell.” Put simply that’s the practice of not communicating through bluntly obvious statements, but giving information that illustrates of the idea you want to communicate. I don’t know if it was an intentional illustration, but I thought it brilliantly concise.

Joe the economist



nearsighted



what we could not see,
what we failed to comprehend,
was everything.

straight talk except…




I’ll take the credit
except when things fall apart;
then I’ll give it back.

image: World Economic Forum




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