I didn’t know what to blog about this week and I had a bit of a creative streak, so I churned out some more bed bug haikus.

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R wants a task force

But her pleas fall on deaf ears

Bloomberg’s bed bug-free

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R wants a task force

Can we trust the government?

Ask the Indians

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A menage a trois!

M, a bug and me

Not very sexy

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Caitlin’s M.I.A.

Her bed bugs, long time no see

They are just hiding

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Bed bugs in college?

Students with bites and huge debts?

Stay home; get a job

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Renee still insists

On City bed bug task force

But pols do nothing

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Hey, nobugsonme!

Hablo espanol tambien!

Bed bugs just speak bite.

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For bed bug orgies

Poor Brooklyn is Ground Zero

Thank God I’m in Queens

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Exterminators

$300 a room

Go out and turn tricks

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Exterminators

$300 a room

Time to sell cocaine

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$300

For bed bug control

Where is price control?

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Let’s get together

Start our own bed bug task force

Cuz’ Council does zilch

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Bugs on your mattress

Bites all over your body

Which wrist to slash first?

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Just pick up your phone

Tell 311 bed bug woes

Who promptly do zilch

Feel free to share your own bed bug haikus. Remember, the first line is 5 syllables, the second line is 7 syllables and the third line is 5 syllables! Have fun!

]]> http://www.buggedout.org/2008/09/10/more-bed-bug-haikus/feed/ 0 http://www.buggedout.org/2008/08/22/a-bed-bug-task-force/ http://www.buggedout.org/2008/08/22/a-bed-bug-task-force/#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:36:00 +0000 Bugged Out http://chiko917.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/a-bed-bug-task-force/ Apparently another bed bug blogger was so moved by my last post that she decided to offer a one-word rebuttal.

Renee has had this campaign for a bed bug task force to be established in this city for a while. Unfortunately, she’s waiting for the government to get around to it. For those of you familiar with Bugged Out, I’ve been chronicling an endless journey to nowhere as the City Council pretends to help New Yorkers. In January 2006 Councilwoman Gale Brewer introduced into the Council legislation that would ban the sale of reconditioned mattresses, ban new mattresses from being transported next to new ones and establish a Bed Bug Task Force. Long story short, the bill died in committee and is dead until further notice.

I feel that no matter how many times Councilwoman Brewer re-introduces her bed bug bill, it will meet the same fate. I responded to the post titled “Bugged Out Thinks We’re Wasting Our Time” and suggested that Renee is not wasting her time by calling for a bed bug task force in New York City, she’s just wasting her time if she’s going to wait for the government to establish one. The City Council had two and a half years to get this going; it seems a bed bug task force would have to come from the private sector, in the form of a nonprofit organization.

I’d really like to discuss launching a nonprofit bed bug task force, but I have no idea what it takes to start a nonprofit organization, or specifically what social services could such an organization offer to those suffering from a bed bug infestation.

Any suggestions?