The George Plimpton Project (http://plimptonproject.org/) is holding a haiku contest on the subject of George. I entered a couple of haikus based on the time I found the book Paper Lion (read it!) in an airport shop in Guatemala City. It was (if I remember correctly) literally the only English book in any of the shops.

They’re finalists in the contest! $200 up for grabs and bragging rights. Here they are:

> A Guatemalan
> Airport, a lone book, tattered,
> George as a Lion

> A distant airport
> Shop, A single English book
> George in a jersey

Yeah, not fine literature, but you try working the word Guatemala into a haiku.

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