🎄 Christmas morning, White House: President T. was feeling sad at 3 a.m. No butler to deliver his Adderall. Thought he would look out the window to admire the National Christmas tree. Where is it? Then he remembers. Shutdown-no lights. At least Melania, or as he likes to call her Melanie, flew in last night wearing her new coat that says I Do Not Care, Do Yule? He starts to sing-- Here comes Santa Claus. Unless you're seven years old. Still believe? Loser. Then he sees a small gift under their blood red Christmas tree. He opens it and a small tear rolls down his cheek. Or it is his makeup melting? He can't read but assumes it is a copy of Time Magazine with his picture on the cover. All is well in his addled mind. For ordering information on When They Go Low, We Go Haiku, click HERE.
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Two of the toughest decisions I had to make when putting my book together were (1) which of the many haikus I had written to include, and (2) when to stop adding so I could begin the publication process. Every day there was something new, and I would just have to try not to tear my hair out and ignore it. I am continuing to write haikus almost on a daily basis. It is great having this website, though, as it gives me an opportunity to include a weekly Fri-ku and add as much context as I want. I also plan to post a monthly blog entry to keep up with significant ch-ch-ch-ch-changes that have happened since the book was published. With my updates below, the numbers correspond to page numbers in the book. Page 14: In one of the two haikus dedicated to Ryan Zinke, now ex-Secretary of the Interior, I told him to "giddy-out." Finally, he did. Here is hoping all of the investigations pending against him causes this cowboy to be roped into a jail cell. Page 23: Haikus here include people who left the White House under differing circumstances. To bring us up-to-date: * John Kelly: His departure is covered in the Fri-ku dated December 14. * Nick Ayers: He was Pence’s Chief of Staff. The Grifter offered him the job as Chief of Staff to the President. He was smart enough to use the old “spending more time with my family” excuse. Page 24: Michael Flynn, identified as "Former National Security Advisor and Soon-to-Be prisoner," was made reference to with this haiku: Karma has arrived He used to yell Lock her up Now it’s Lock him up. Here’s a new one for Flynn: He yelled Lock her up Stopped yelling. Started singing. No jail for this guy? To be continued in March 2019 when he finds out his fate. Page 29: Haikus here present the history of Michael Cohen from his role as the Grifter’s “fixer” willing to take a bullet for him to opening up to Mueller and federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York. This latter role deserves a new Haiku. Three years in prison Tough. Cohen now says his time With Grifter was worse. That's it for now; however, occasional updates will continue until the Grifter is finally ousted in some manner. See you guys really soon.
I am in a mixed state of shock and exhilaration with a touch of Yes You Can as I hold the proof of my book. Why haikus? I was in deep despair from election day 2016 until Inauguration Day. More often than not, I found myself hiding under the covers in bed until late in the day. Determined to not let the Grifter take over my life, I turned to writing haikus, the very outlet i needed to express my angst, disbelief, fear and true hatred in short bursts. The haikus came easily. Sometimes multiple per day. I posted them on Facebook. A number of friends commented that they hoped I was saving them. A few even said, "write a book." Been there. Done that. Two business books. Both co-authored. One thirty years ago. One about twelve years ago. Do not even remember their titles. Then in June of this year, I was visiting my brother, Jim, and sister-in-law, Brooke, in a beautiful woodsy suburb of Charlottesville, VA. Yes, that Charlottesville of the Grifter’s “fine, fine people” and the death of Heather Heyer. A perfect setting to start organizing my thoughts. Then with the advice of others, I compiled my haikus and worked with a publisher that deals with self-published books. And here it is. It will be available in hard copy, paperback and an e-version. Updates on availability will be posted here, so be sure to check back soon! It has been said that a man’s greatest fear is being laughed at (a woman’s is being killed). Well, Grifter, you will never know if people are laughing at you because of my book. But I'll know it. So I'm going to pour myself a bigly cup of covfefe, and say that I had the best words. Believe me. |