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Second Annual Official Solosez Haiku Competition
Japanese lawyers
more respected than doctors
better paid was well
Ernest Schaal, Japan
Long-winded client
and hot humid summer day
bad combination
Ernest Schaal, Japan
Copier broken
I go to Costco and shop
BROTHER (TM) saves the day!
Mary L. C. Daniel, Winchester, Virginia
Feel like crap today.
Go Home. Cell phone keeps ringing!
There is no escape.
Mary L. C. Daniel, Winchester, Virginia
other attorney
does not want to
do homework
so she bothers me
I love my freedom
no boss, no rules, no problem
no money - big problem
working for myself
such a liberating move
until rent is due
Carol Simpson Moncif, Columbus, Ohio
I work until morn'
On a brief but then I see
Spring has come today
David Leffler, New York
Law firm factory
Unhappy are many, their
Own firm is freedom.
David Leffler, New York
Beside the mail-stream
I work alone.
Welcoming Ripples from other shores.
John Page, Florida
Summary judgment;
Can’t wait to win the appeal.
Solo life is good!
The clerk isn't smiling,
Stamps my motion to dismiss.
It goes clunk, clunk, clunk.
Biglaw opponent
Does not like me; but he knows
Grass is greener here.
Christopher Bumgarner, Columbus, Ohio
Government meeting
Cream walls, white men, neutral suits -
My red dress stands out!
Mary Daniel
Client wants trademark
another application
goes into black hole
eighteen months later
we get an office action
the sample's grown mold
Mikki Barry
ancient proverb
lawyer with time to e-mail
needs more paying clients
Donald M. Spector, New York, New York
moose sleeping in yard
salmon running in river
why am I at work?
Deidre S. Ganopole, Anchorage, Alaska
Solos
on solosez
are legion
John T. Mitchell
"A lawyers advice
is her stock in trade," Lincoln
Says. My work ain't free!
Its hard to have friends
Ask for free advice and then
Say, "You work too much!"
Mary L. C. Daniel
The greenbacks fall down
into my pocket I hope
misery breeds cash
Fun is the lawyer's
ally in parentage suits
we hope no condoms
Advocate sleeps well
when no person becomes chained
habeas corpus
Jimmy L. Verner, Jr., Dallas, Texas
Bankruptcy Abuse
Consumer Protection Act
Protects Consumers?
Karla Y. Vogel, Decatur, Georgia
Just you and Toto?
Click keys think, “no place like home”
Post on Solosez
Karen Siettmann, Paralegal
Babble, Vent, Request --
So patient, COTE guides us
Along the lifeline.
Gini Nelson
I read everyday
To glean what law I can get
To pass this Bar Exam
Sarah Gold
Would I be sanctioned,
if i started a thread called:
"[POL] my fanger [sic]"?
John Yoak, Irvine, California
A solo waits for
The million dollar phone call.
Hope springs eternal.
John D. Kitch, Nashville, Tennessee
I have a new gig
perhaps no more poverty
for me I so hope
poverty law sucks
when you are just as flat broke
as the clients are
bought a big new desk
solid oak and weighs a whole lot
just ask the movers
Jim Moriarty, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
incessant dog bark
clients wonder w-t-f
home office bad choice
note: I'm in transition, I'll be out of this home office mess in a week (lord willing).
Long Duong
Haiku deadline looms
Frantically scribble words
Just like brief writing
(Or if the judges declare that "frantically" is only 3 syllables, then substitute "frantically scramble for words")
Andy Simpson, Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
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