Friday Poetry Corner

by Daniel Foty

Hmm....

Hair blows in the wind.
After years there is still wind.
Sadly no more hair.

That's a little haiku by Herman van Rompuy; he's apparently writing about himself, but that's a perfect ode to Vermont's uniformly follicly-challenged Congressional delegation....

And who is Herman van Rompuy?  Apparently, he was recently (all done "on the inside" of course - that's Europe) elevated to the post of Prime Minister of Belgium - and more recently his name has been leaked as a possible choice (again, all done by insider politics - again, the European Way) for the new post of President of the European Union (EU).

What do we know about his politics?  Well, there's this:

"The man wants to impose all sorts of new taxes across the whole continent...."

So he does indeed sound like a kindred spirit for Vermont's remarkably-undiverse Congressional delegation....

UPDATE:  It's official - van Rompuy it is.  Poor Europeans....