thanks to Gregg Easterbrook, ESPN.com's Tuesday Morning Quarterback and Brookings Scholar, I've grown fond of haikus again.
the other day, I was taking a cigarette break and got 17-syllabically poetic about my job as a database manager for a job-search outreach in Alabama's Black Belt (one of the poorest parts of the nation).

Mountains of data:
Sob stories, by the bootstraps,
Every file a life.

Not too much in retrospect, but it seemed poignant to me at the time.
Also, a bit about the event most dominating my dark thoughts today

Marlins in seven.
Cubs' dreams dashed the night before
Bad times for Bartman.

10-year-old Marlins
Dress two Series in gauche Teal.
There is no justice.