A comment from a friend on Google+, after he posted a haiku, led me to ask myself if I had a copy of this 1998 Kyoto treaty talks op-ed that I wrote all in haiku. And, I did. And yes, what follows was an actual op-ed column. (Small weekly paper, where I was publisher, and nobody to say 'You can't do that.')
Clinton seeks freer trade
With Chilean producers
Free wine, grapes, and fruit
Gephardt says "Never"
Dreaming Presidential dreams
Gore stands idly by
Newt and his minions
Will swap taxes for tariffs
Clinton: "See me next year"
He's to Kyoto
To cut back greenhouse gas growth
Subtle irony
Speaking, not doing
More global warming threatens
With his ev'ry word
Business USA
Claims the climate data is
Still insufficient
They preach doom and gloom
For our proud, strong economy
From mandated change
Clinton will stand and speak
To please Japan, Europe, home
And yet fall far short
Back in Washington
Ere his Orient Express
Reno had good news
Investigation
Of campaign violations
Is terminated
Clinton breathes easy
As does loyal Gore besides
But is it over
On the back benches
Hot Republican firebreathers
Demand impeachment
The outside person
Knows all hands are money-green
Has cynic disgust
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