Newsverse: The Informed Voter’s Guide to the Afghan Runoff Election

By Jerry Adler

Many Afghan men are known
By a single name alone
Which can make the Kabul phone
            Book very hard to use.
 
Sometimes if they like their own
Name enough, they’ll add a clone
So Abdullah’s name has grown
            By doubling, to confuse—
 
Americans.  The other cat
Is Hamid Karzai, with the hat.
A Karakul – I googled that.
            It’s also worn by Jews—
 

From Africa.  You fold it flat.
            Gee, it’s hard to choose.