Newshog's Political Fib Challenge

Haiku, my friends, may be dead. There is a new and even more exacting poetry form out there - the fib.

A "fib" is a poem structured according to the mathematical progression known as the Fibionacci sequence - whaddaya mean you haven't read the DaVinci Code yet? - a progression of numbers found in nature in such wildly different places as the curves of a snail shell or the placement of leaves on a stem. Accordingly, it is not just uber-geeky it is also exactly in accord with the harmony of the universe in a way that haiku could never manage.

It's even made the New York Times, International Herald-Tribune, Independent and other major papers.

The allure of the form is that it is simple, yet restricted. The number of syllables in each line must equal the sum of the syllables in the two previous lines. So, start with 0 and 1, add them together to get your next number, which is also 1, 2 comes next, then add 2 and 1 to get 3, and so on. Pincus [Greg Pinkus, the inventor of the genre - C] structured the Fibs to top out at line six, with eight syllables.

So here's the challenge - write a political fib.

I'll do a post with some of the best if anyone actually takes up the challenge.

Bush
Fibs.
But thinks
He is king
Not a president.
Which makes saying so treasonous.

See, it's that easy. Go on, give it a try.