"Well, it's been a pretty rough century, and it's probably getting rougher. It might be easier to co-opt a devil than to believe in an angel." --Dennis O'Neil

Alan Moore Portal: V for Vendetta Haiku Contest


	

		
 
		

		GRAND PRIZE: Les Chappell
		
 
	
	

		

		 
		

		 
		

		 
	
	

		

		

		Guy Fawkes from ashes

		A vague pearl smirk vows changes

		Evangelical.
		
		

		

		Vice and victims fill

		Grey streets of rules, guns and forms

		Truth nailed to red cross.
		
		

		

		A girl orphaned thrice

		Innocence shorn with her hair

		The dark holds new life.
		
	


	

		

			

				
OTHER WINNING HAIKU
				
 
			
			

				
 
				
 
			
			

				

				
				

				
All Judgment shall end,

				by the hand of a masked man,

				V for Vendetta.
				
David Smith
			
			

				

				
alone in darkness

				body torn, shaken, shaved...gone...

				except that last inch

				
				Jacquelyn R. Ottomeyer
				

				
			
			

				

				
				

				
the head knows the lies

				eyes see, mouth speaks, finger hunts

				only fate will tell
Jacquelyn R. Ottomeyer
			
			

				

				
vengeance is not just

				come to do the devil's work

				hope you guessed my name

				Jacquelyn R. Ottomeyer
				

				
			
			

				

				
				

				
Faggots in masks suck

				Dictatorships are the best

				Evey is a whore
				

				
				Brandon Wolgast 
			
			
		
 

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