From my co-workers wife:

   Lacking fins or tail
   The gefilte fish swims with
   Great difficulty.

  *****

   Beyond Valium,
   Peace is knowing that one’s child
   Is an internist.

   *****

   On Passover we     
   Opened the door for Elijah
   Now our cat is gone.

    *****

   After the warm rain
   The sweet smell of camellias
   Did you wipe your feet?

   *****

   Her lips near my ear,
   Aunt Sadie whispers the name
   Of her friend’s disease.

   *****
   Today I am a man.
   Tomorrow I will return
   To the seventh grade.

    *****

   Testing the warm milk
   On her wrist, she sighs softly.
   But her son’s forty.

   *****

   The sparkling blue sea
   Reminds me to wait an hour
   After my sandwich.

  Like a bonsai tree,
  Is your terrible posture
  At my dinner table.

   *****

   Jews on safari —
   Map, compass, elephant gun,
   Hard sucking candies.

    *****

   The same kimono
   The top geishas are wearing:
   I got at Loehmann’s.

    *****

   Mom, please! There is no
    Need to put that dinner roll
   In your pocketbook.

   *****

   Seven-foot Jews in
   The NBA slam-dunking!
   My alarm clock rings.

   *****

  Sorry I’m not home
  To take your call. At the tone
  Please state your bad news.

  *****

   Is one Nobel Prize
   So much to ask from a child
   After all I’ve done?

   *****

   Today, mild shvitzing.
   Tomorrow, so hot you’ll plotz.
   Five-day forecast: feh
   *****

   Yenta. Shmeer. Gevalt.
   Shlemiel . Shlimazl. Meshuganah
   Oy! To be fluent!

   *****

   Quietly murmured
   At Saturday services,
   Yanks 8, Red Sox 7.

   *****

   A lovely nose ring,
   Excuse me while I put my
   Head in the oven.

Now to go Googling and see if I can find any Christian Haiku’s

Why? Because I love the Muppets

What an Awesome Display of Cunning Pack Mentality!

At times nature can be cruel, but there is also a raw beauty, and even a certain justice manifested within that cruelty.

The alligator, one of the oldest and ultimate predators, normally considered the “apex predator” in it’s natural eco-system, can still fall victim to implemented ‘team work’ strategy, made possible due to the tight knit social structure and “survival of the fittest pack mentality”, Bred into the canines over thousands of years by natural selection.

See the remarkable photograph below, courtesy of Nature Magazine …

Note that the Alpha dog has a muzzle hold on the gator preventing it from breathing, while the remainder of the pack prevents the beast from rolling.

Not for the squeamish!
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