Someone famous dies
We post haiku about them
It's just that simple
HISTORIC
HAIKU:
February 13
Cotton Mather
February 14
Nat King Cole
February 15
Dick Francis
Ethel Merman
February 16
Keith Haring
February 17
Geronimo
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E! Online
The Soup
Perez Hilton
TMZ
People Magazine
Haiku
Haiku a Day
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Haiku.com
Genuine Haiku Generator
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Andy Borowitz
Annie's Way
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J-Walk Blog
Ken Jenning's Blog
Ken Levine
Metafilter
Mike Gerber
Now What
Obit Magazine
The Onion
Peter Kuper
Plymptoons
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Ragged Edge Press
Shoebox Blog
Slate
smirkingchimp
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Writer Dude's Blog
1920–2011
Ask not for whom theBelles of St. Trinian's toll — They toll for Ronald
— Lairbo
1949–2011
Often made me mad.Always made me think aboutWhy he'd made me mad
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Brilliant or blowhard?We won't know until all ofHis friends are dead, too
— Russell 1000
1919–2011
'Ja ever noticeHow stiff and cold I've become?Why 'ja think that is?
— Jeff Tiedrich
Having run out ofComplaints in this life, he is On to the next one
— Ishallah
1923-2011
Leonard B. Stern has[farted]. We mourn his [boner].We will all [poop] him.
-- Jeff Tiedrich
Mad Libs, Get Smart,And The Honeymooners, too?!Man was a genius
-- O'Cyrus
1928 – 2010
Ask not what the landDid for Sorensen, ask howHe'll enrich the soil
— Dr. Vitz
Kennedy's wordsmithIntellectual blood bankFuel on the flame
Wasn't CamelotHe said; what followed onlyMade it seem that way
— Roger Rabid
1925 – 2010
Born a Bronx street kidPaired with Leigh and MarilynNot bad, Bernard Schwartz
Somehow it worked, thatMovie star face with that buzzSaw Bronx accent
Maybe he neverSaid "Yonda lies da castle..."But we all heard it
Didn't get far on Foot, but pushed every limitThere was with his pen
Wherever he isNow, I'm sure he's complainingAbout how it sucks
Very bad week forCleveland; first LeBron leaves, nowHarvey Pekar's dead
Kids said the darndest Things because they were told toSay them beforehand
Genial host who Made his guests look foolish... he'd Fit right in today
— Meanie the Blue
Art did the darndest Thing when his daughter died he Blamed it on acid
— Babatjie
1920 – 2010
Short guy has two longCareers: riding, then writingAbout, racehorses
Wrote masterpiece whileTeaching those with no use for It proper grammar
— O'Cyrus
Three non-Rabbit books he wrote?
I didn't think so
—Lairbo
Of all his Rabbit books
Watership Down is my fave...
What? That wasn't him?
—Russell 1000
1918 – 2008
Solzhenitsyn's name
Barely fits onto one line;
Problem for haiku
Bitched about Russia;
Bitched about the west; heaven or
Hell's in for it now
With just one book, heRevived his own, Brando's andCoppola's career
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