16 April, 2010

Rumpy poetry shock


At last: what to give the man or woman who has everything.


Herman van Rompuy, President of the EU, is publishing a book of Haikus he has written in boring meetings.


The haikus have been written in Dutch, but helpfully translated, in case your Dutch isn't quite sharp enough to get the full import, into English, French, German and Latin. A haiku is supposed to be 17 syllables and contain an eternal thought as well as a temporal observation and Rumpy doesn't always achieve this, but, hey, such literary masterpieces have got to be popular.


OK, OK. Just a taster:


They changed the water

of the pond. A few dead fish

were left behind.


Timeless.

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