News You Can Haiku: End of Summer Recess Contest

If we’ve learned anything over the past few weeks, it’s that even during congressional and presidential vacations, you can never completely pull the plug on politics. From those crazed town-hall meetings to new revelations about enhanced interrogations to a showy vacation on the Cape capped off by a sad public funeral, it’d be enough to fill a volume. But no, that would be too easy. Instead, here’s the challenge: help us sum up the August recess in a simple haiku. That’s right, just 17 syllables broken up into three lines, five-seven-five. Here are a few examples:

Health care, climate, oy!
At least Barack played some golf
Hats off to you, Ted

Town halls, loaded guns
A dynasty passes on
But will health reform?

 New torture details
Where is our leadership now?
Appalachian Trail

Think you can do better? Give us your best shot in the comments section below. We’ll profile the best ones in this space on Friday. And for first place, we’ll find you some NEWSWEEK swag.