<link href="../styles/9781439190302.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:e40d180b-cd26-4393-a462-c93dfe02d3ac" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <h2 class="h2a"><a id="page_38"/>Washington Dinner Party</h2> <p class="center">(in Five Haikus)</p> <p class="vtt">1.<br/>The Hostess Ponders Her Seating Arrangements</p> <p class="v">Pro-Life in between</p> <p class="v">Gay Marriage and Choice? Switch with</p> <p class="v">Two-State Solution.</p> <p class="vtt">2.<br/>The Ambassador’s Widow Observes She Is One of Nine Guests</p> <p class="v">Always the extra,</p> <p class="v">The add-on, the odd number.</p> <p class="v">My even is gone.</p> <p class="vtt">3.<br/>The Senior Senator Vets His Dinner Partner</p> <p class="v">Wife of big donor.</p> <p class="v">Rapt listener. Nice cleavage.</p> <p class="v">I’ll turn off my cell.</p> <p class="vtt"><a id="page_39"/>4.<br/>The Out-of-Town Guest Is Confused</p> <p class="v">EO. SEC.</p> <p class="v">GSA. NLRB.</p> <p class="v">They’re speaking in tongues.</p> <p class="vtt">5.<br/>The Host Looks Around the Table and Has an Epiphany</p> <p class="v">The future belongs</p> <p class="v">To those who know pixels from</p> <p class="v">Bytes. That won’t be us.</p> <p class="image"><img alt="image" src="../images/f037-01.jpg"/></p> </body></html>