October Haiku: Political Animals

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth

①      

One dark horse rises
News: The leader has arrived
From the puke-filled pit


②

The pigs grunt and the lions
They squeak like the rats
—Those in my hometown

③

The dogs eat shits and
The more the shits, the more the
Panic and police

④

Night, we need a light
Like Ibobi needs to beg
Like baboons need meat

⑤

Aspirations lie
Like a fly ‘over’ the wall;
Bomb the State Building

⑥

Remember last year
The small fish were caught for fraud,
Big fish built a fort

⑦

The buffalo stole
The helmet of the army
The cows shat on it