Haiku: Cabal

cabal e tu brute resounds in my mind Inspired from: Word of the Day for Wednesday March 17,2005 cabal \kuh-BAHL; kuh-BAL\, noun: 1. A secret, conspiratorial association of plotters or intriguers whose purpose is usually to bring about an overturn especially in public affairs. 2. The schemes or plots of such an association. intransitive verb: To form a cabal; to conspire; to intrigue; to plot. If you constantly disagreed with Winters, he wrote you out of his cabal, his conspiracy against the poetry establishment. -Richard Elman, [1]Namedropping: Mostly Literary Memoirs My father always had been a collector. There were the stamps, National Geographics, scrapbooks filled with his favorite political cartoons, and booklets justifying his belief that the world was under the control of a global cabal of elites unified by such organizations as the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Freemasons. -Frederick Kempe, [2]Father/Land But the new world of toys is by no means simply the product of a profit-mad cabal of toy pushers discovering new ways of exploiting the child market. -Gary Cross, [3]Kids' Stuff The Anti-Federalists were not simply concerned that Congress was too small relatively-too small to be truly representative of the great diversity of the nation. Congress was also too small absolutely-too small to be immune from cabal and intrigue. -Akhil Reed Amar, [4]The Bill of Rights