Dona Juanita Medusa, one of the characters in SATORI TANGO, came up with the idea of composing what she calls "Tabloid Haiku" - Haiku in traditional form inspired by Tabloid headlines - as a way of passing the time on a long road trip. I offer some of these Tabloid Haiku below:

Fat-sucking vampires
claim two hundred and fifty
nine lives in Lima.

Cannibal chief eats
mail order brides in New Guinea.
Cops launch man-hunt.


Fisherman uses
Barbie Doll as bass lure. “Drives
the big ones crazy.”


Sexually pawed
by a love-crazed smelly Big-foot.
Chased, kissed and stripped.


Man knocks himself out with boomerang.
Sues himself.
Wins three hundred k.


Lobster pinches wide-eyed
socialite’s boob in ritzy
Paris bistro.

Cincinnati corpse
bursts into flames and burns
antique hearse in strange blaze.


Weirdo breaks into
gal’s apartments to brush their
teeth. Complaints increase.


Woman burned to a
crisp in hair spray tragedy. Wichita
cops shocked.


Man posing as
alien conned gals into free
trip to home planet.


Couple mangled when
penile implant explodes during sex.
Wedding night.