The entries in our sex-scandal haiku contest are pouring in. Here are a few of our favorites:
Sanford
Reader F.P.:
Appalachian Trail
Due West - Live Boldly - Head South
Argentina Daze
Ensign
Reader F.P., again:
Keep your friends close by,
Know no boundaries of love,
Daddy will fix it.
And reader S.S.:
Daddy’s Casino
Paid off my love chit to her.
Gift, not bribe, I claim.
Edwards
Reader A.T:
Should not have posed for
my weird videographer —
now my hair is mussed.
Duvall (here’s a quick refresher on him)
Reader D.W.:
OC GOP,
Eyepatch-wearing lobbyist,
Dripping sex and lies.
TPMmuckraker:
Sex boasts and eye-patch
Underwear rock. But beware
The Hot Mic, Hot Mike!
And finally, reader S.W. got creative, using a certain Christian house on Capitol Hill to tie a few scandals together:
C Street fruit basket.
Other’s wives and Argentines.
Coburn as your Doc.
Late Update: And an all-purpose entry from reader D.B.:
If loving you’s wrong
Then I don’t want to be right.
But I must be right.
Late Late Update, 11/30/09: We got so many good ones, we had to post a few more…
Reader B.T. on Sanford:
Incoherently
Rambling on about my love.
Put a sock in it.
Reader C.L. on Ensign:
In the casino
Of life, I bet on you, and
My parents paid out.
Reader E.S. on Larry Craig:
Between flights, furtive,
The heart reduced to Morse code —
Feet tap in stalls.
Reader M.M. on David Vitter:
Spank me, dear. Spank me.
Afix my diaper with pins.
Money you shall have.
Reader JK on Tom Coburn’s role in the Ensign scandal:
I’m a doctor or
Perhaps a Christian pastor
Don’t ask me to snitch!
Reader J.R. on C Street:
Landlord’s dilemma:
Rent to reckless Congressman
When God won’t co-sign.