Letters: Readers write haiku

Election year blues

Negative spin zones flourish

Watch ads nauseam!

-- V.W. Walsh, Huntington

Economy bust!

Jobs, health care, Wall Street reform

Can't change overnight.

-- Aileen Kirschenbaum, Plainview

Tax reform to come.

Will it help all or hurt some?

Hope's alive 'til done!

-- Maureen Chase, Wantagh

Warm gusts, glaciers thaw

Colossal slabs quake the sea

Roaring thunder: SPLASH!

-- John Varsanyi, Massapequa

Road rage, OMG

Texting, speeding, way too slow

Get outta my way.

-- Linda Sardone, Sound Beach

Herman Cain pizza,

Choice of several toppings.

All very cheesy.

-- Judith Stefanou, Ridge

Goodbye, Herman Cain

One too many accusers

Candidacy gone.

-- Dori Cohen, Woodbury

Creating corporate smiles.

Truth comes at Christmas.

-- Carol Strub, Huntington

Price of oil sky high.

Can't meet the out-of-range price.

Move to southern clime?

-- Marge McDowell, East Meadow

Football, basketball,

Coaches, universities,

Trust, given, taken.

-- Suzanne Richards, East Nortport

Lights shine at Gilgo.

Searching, hoping for a clue.

One killer, or two?

-- Donald E. Allen, Amity Harbor

Apathy is air

Silent, obscure, tasteless -- an

insidious stench.

-- Joan M. Schaefer

Testing is kids' bane.

What happened to learning joy?

Balance must be found.

-- Elaine Labrocca, Plainview

Could LIPA be the

Lesser of two evils? Or

The LIRR?

-- Richard Siegelman, Plainview

Had money in stocks

Did again, now don't again

Will never retire.

-- Diana O'Neill, Long Beach

Loser John McCain

Took a cheap shot at L.I.

Won't live in White House!

-- Carol Nissenbaum, East Meadow

McCain loses it

He forgot sailors' motto

That loose lips sink ships.

-- Frederick R. Bedell Jr., Glen Oaks Village

SAT cheats, why?

Could have done it on your own!

Now, you'll never know.

-- Joanne Phillips, Hicksville

An election comes,

Some candidates win, some lose.

But what about us?

-- George Thogersen Jr., Smithtown

Laid off in August

Job prospects are pretty bleak

Twelve dollars an hour?

-- Robin Ames, Coram

Police lab crisis --

Mangano taps new top cop,

-- Maria Manobianco, Farmingdale

New liturgy words

Can't enrich Catholic Mass.

Women deacons would.

-- Linda Bartunek, Calverton

The Fed gave banks loans

At .01 percent rates.

I'd like that deal, please.

-- Jeremy Pinquist, Valley Stream

Jose, Jesus, Maria.

Not in my backyard?

-- Adele Werneburg, Hicksville

Why don't people know?

To stop wanton violence,

All guns need to go.

-- Selma Musicant, Whitestone

Ninety-nine percent

Occupy a street of walls

Let the classes war.

-- Marc Rosen, Glen Cove

To protest plutocracy

And gross injustice.

-- Cathleen Callahan, Farmingdale

Occupy Wall Street --

They show how the country is

more broke than they are.

-- Paula Camacho, Farmingdale

Big business will hurt us all

Help the little guy.

-- Kathy Herron, Jaqui Himberger,