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Dori’s haikus for the ‘ramps to nowhere’

Oct 20, 2014, 1:06 PM | Updated: 3:57 pm

If you want to win a piece of SR 520’s ramps to nowhere, the state is asking for your haiku s...

If you want to win a piece of SR 520's ramps to nowhere, the state is asking for your haiku submissions. (Photo: Tim Haeck)

(Photo: Tim Haeck)

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BY STEPHANIE KLEIN


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If you want to win a piece of SR 520’s ramps to nowhere, the state is asking for your haiku submissions.

Here are Dori’s:

Huge Taxdollar waste
In Overruns and mistakes
Hey!!! Let’s write poems!!!

Tax dollars? Billions
But in exchange for your cash
Have a concrete chunk

Government morons
Think their inept management’s
Offset by haiku

Submissions from listeners:

Beth in Tacoma writes:

Seattle Haiku
True skill or depth not needed
Bad,great-all the same

Mike writes:

Let’s do a contest!
O.K. What kind of contest?
What would Dori do?

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