By Alan D. Miller
Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi, the head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, was killed today. A haiku in his memory, may it be erased.
doctor, pediatrician,
killer of children,
abdel aziz rantisi
Update: Oops! I was just alerted by David Bernstein of the Volokh Conspiracy that this isn't a haiku. (Haikus are seventeen syllables (5-7-5), not nineteen (7-5-7), as I had thought.)
One possibility is:
Killer of children.
Pediatrician of death.
Doctor Rantisi.
Professor Bernstein has suggested an alternate possibility, which better preserves the sense of the original:
Pediatrician.
Doctor. Killer of Children.
Abdel Rantisi.