THREE HAIKU FOR CHANGE by Dennis Doph

touchdown Jesus. 26

(1) EMPOWERMENT
These are the days
Our image refracted
In a cloudy mirror
Elongation once impossibly engorged
Now flaccid
So we drop one more Cialis
And pray for rain

(2) EMBEZZLEMENT
Why did the Democratic National Committee
Send the President's plea for support
Dated September 27
Just in time for it to arrive
Fashionably late, on November 6th?
This is not empowerment
This is embezzlement

(3) ENGORGEMENT
So here we are one more Alpha male
Stranded in the Ebbtide of his Middleage
All the old sexual reflexes Sapped
Waiting for a whiff any whiff
Of hairymale juiciness To get
These very old rocks off