2006-09-30

roman redux

bread and circuses
the timeless means of control
for modern empires

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2006-09-29

Point of view

The crab judges me:
"tasty!, if not so alive"
I size up the crab

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equine psychology

Grass? Not-grass? Ha! No!
Wolves see in dualities.
Prey just groks it all.

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Too abstract

Models like scarecrows
anorexia enshrined
fashion disfunction

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elegance achieved

Measure thrice, cut once,
and solve ten thousand problems:
engineering's goal.

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2006-09-28

Attachments

We leave as we came
naked, speechless, powerless.
In between, we crave.

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double oops

"So, nice vacation?"
"I was in the hospital."
cancerous faux pas

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"Freud's not in, sorry ..."

Old socks on fire

and my boss blames me for it

weird dreams last night

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2006-09-26

Donated

Bruno's Xtralite
I strain to lift this glider.
Can an anvil fly?

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disappointing

one hundred twenty
parents learning about schools
none of them are black

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Mismatch

Chop sticks and flat plate
chasing rice around the dish
torture for round-eyes

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Free will

Acquit the poor boy!
Teens can't be responsible
testosterone is.

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Art

Some phillistines say:
art should always be pretty.
Dip them in pink tar.

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The nineties, explained

Meritocracy?
No, the scum also rises:
sometimes to the top.

branding

habeus corpus
meaningless latin to most
not rotting in jail

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2006-09-25

Breakfast on acid

Steaming grey-brown mound
as if I'd already puked
biscuits and gravy

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Point of view

The crab judges me:
"tasty, if not so alive"
I size up the crab.

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2006-09-24

gotham nights

boots, cape and black tights
batman's secret in plain view:
he cares for young dick ...

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natural selection

What makes a pilot?
Ability? Persistence?
Seems random to me ...

2006-09-23

Arrogance

George W Bush
seeks pardon but won't resign.
Worse than Dick Nixon.

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root causes

TV transforms our
postmodern electorate
into bleating sheep

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2006-09-22

fashion

knotting a neat tie
I labor towards discomfort
quite masochistic

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Misfit

Butts ooze off the seats
flabby arms squish their neighbors.
Blimps should not ride planes.

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2006-09-21

Beliefs

"liberty or death!"
We used to stand for something.
We can stand again.

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Dogs know

A dog smells, and knows.
A man sees, but doubts his eyes.
Thought defeats knowledge.

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limits

humans try to get
inside the mind of a cow
but find there's no room

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2006-09-20

between wasps and sharks

George double-u Bush
first CEO president
makes lawyers look good

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2006-09-19

War on terror

Soros spoke tonight
still says "no cause for despair,
if we speak our mind"

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phoenix

peak oil afterglow
a post-commercial eden
rises from ashes

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burning joy

desert midday heat
a post-commercial eden
rises from the dust

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Wrights' wrong

Turbines chew the sky
dodging lift, spewing exhaust
so unlike a bird

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fat rats

shoulder-deep in grass
deer seem to swim in my yard
like antlered hippos

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No, but you may want to

Daybreak thru cobwebs
drags me back to consciousness.
Can hangovers kill?

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levitating bricks

Turbines shred the air
making noise and dodging lift.
Can one call this flight?

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typical

Ready for my flight
but there's no plane at the gate
Hurry up and wait.

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loyalty

Bush clings to Rumsfeld
while condemnations pile up.
Heck of a job, Don!

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Breaking up

I can't hang with this.
She's a beautiful snowboard,
but she has no sole.

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follower

Eric calls it "steep" ...
maybe I'll find my own piste.
I don't belong here.

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nothing left to lose

So liberating
to travel with my hands free
bags lost in transit

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Gazing out

Frustration gnaws me
Clouds cap snowy mountain peaks...
outside this airport

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6am flight

Grey airport morning
bags checked, passport checked, gate found
brain still somewhere else

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psychedelic history

the revolution
was institutionalized
by the Grateful Dead

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poetic justice

Storm finds the suburbs
Roots tear free from rain-soaked earth
Tree crushes hummer.

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Black Eagle: 30 mph SSE

Convection with wind
Awesome? Fearsome? Maybe both?
Fluffy clouds skid past.

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V

apathetic sheep
surrender their liberties
and deserve the wolf

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thermal

Wanda beckons me
sun-baked rocks release their oomph
earth spurts me skywards

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air-gasm

More sun bakes the earth
the lower air spurts skywards
ooh that felt so good

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Courage

Chicken-shit Congress
licks the executive's boots.
Feingold in oh eight

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Winning stratagem

Barren daffodils
have lots of flamboyant sex
and never worry

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you may already have won

Darwin tells a tale
of dead-end experiments
we're the rare winners

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weird weather

hail in the east bay
why do we deserve such joy?
global climate change

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sunday

Approaching cold front
stokes our hopes of convection
but we just get wet

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2006-09-18

big basin bbq

soaring redwood trees
glare at their brethren's slaughter:
vegetable kabobs

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2006-09-17

artless

"Episode One" showed
cinematic artistry
had sunk to zero

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Get it in writing

Sunday was cut short
by an angry dog walker
and Cliff's verbal writ

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All is vanity

Berkeley bowl patrons
use the finest stuff to hide
ground turkey patties

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Marina morning

Wind south at zero
morning air stable as death
gulls disdain to fly

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2006-09-16

Sleight of hand

Bluffing and wheedling
rather than engage the facts
Bush pushes the lie

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2006-09-14

lost soul

too late to be heard
Colin Powell found his voice:
"prisoners have rights"

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Stability

Brachiating worked
Gravity kept us upright.
Now we risk toppling.

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collaboration?

five years afterwards
accomplished none of our aims
all of Osama's

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playa

Our burning future
a post-apocalyptic
desert shantytown

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you can sleep when you're dead

Death? Death is only
one hell of a hangover
after life's party!

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peak experience

Sitting on Whitney
I could be higher
cloud base at 18

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intelligent design?

Our receptors are tickled
by an amphetamine buzz
did god ordain that?

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tomwaits redux

It's Saturday night
sex and drugs and rock and roll
yes, life is alright ...

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groundbound

Go a 100k
the hard way: pedal power
mocked by fluffy Q's ...

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kid outside a candy store

Nose pressed to the glass
mocked by fluffy candy clouds
lick my chops and whine ...

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better on the ground

South at thirty-five
ripped from the mazurka launch
flung across the sky

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loyal

Nader's crazy claim:
both parties are just the same!
No opposition ...

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buggered

Specter's anal kink
guiding Bush's spy-missile up
America's ass

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2006-09-13

wordsmithing

showers of haiku
struck from a tormented soul
kindle strangers' minds

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lost values

"Liberty or Death"
became "full-time surveillance"
Republican con game

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launch

permanence achieved
writing upon the aether
mobile haiku lives!

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childhood

running and screaming
after invisible ghosts
midgets on acid

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2006-09-12

parent's ripost

look, Curious George
has loss, redemption, and love:
a toddler classic!

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Marketing

more Hollywood crap.
infantilized audience
is taught to want it

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Motivation

craving hamachi
we left the sea, our first home
and got knives and rice

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Bibliophobic

averse to the truth,
Gonzales snubs the senate
who'll prosecute him?

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Cache Revisited

Guilt over algiers
haunts the French electorate
mais on n'en parle pas

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Policy or prejudice

witholding condoms
the Right drives teen pregnancy.
naive? Or evil?

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Cache Review

Algerian guilt
haunts the French electorate
but they name it not

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First smile

An eyebrow arcs up
and we impute emotion
or else its just gas

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humble pie

redtail tumbling
through leeside canyon rotor
avian mastery

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Poker on credit

gambling in Iraq
Bush stakes our name on vengeance.
the republic folds

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Whores

senators line up
like flies around carrion
reaching for money

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Rudderless

liberty or death
we used to stand for something
now we have lost it

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Learning

basking in hot tub
seals, whales and hippos teach me
buoyant truths of sloth

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original truths

comtemplating whales
I'm buoyed in hot water
my spirit guide chills

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stonewall

like a scared limpet
when sea otters are prowling
Bush clings to office

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extinction

megafauna gone;

hungry man has no conscience

all gone since Clovis

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Individuation

formed by peer pressure
prisoner of fashion trends
what's a teen, alone?

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cool

mounting albedo
as snow reflects more sunlight
our perfect snowglobe

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narnian subtext

i'm so unworthy
how could god love lowly me?
the film stinks of guilt

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genesis

witch versus lion
a fundamentalist tale
evil as saddam

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Narnia film

intrusive soundtrack
evokes mawkish emotion
passion of Aslan

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Coup

petty senate fools
distract us from the great crime
our birthright stolen

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philistines

Saw the hermitage
exhibit at venetian
fucking incredible

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2006-09-11

ruined

ugly as a wart
but just give vegas some time
a splendid ruin!

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runway bride

a short wedding dress
can be quirky without sleaze
sometimes it's just fun

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cheers!

toasts by sundry friends
bind the couple with new bonds:
shared embarrassment

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profound

strive to understand:

no depth; a 2-D culture

blonde is a lifestyle

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Americana

vegas wedding date
stripteasing bride on the pole
lapdancing bridesmaids

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spotless mind

Endless dust and sand
such an exhorbitant price
for eternal sun

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beauty

anorexic wraiths
distorted with silicone
keep the bars creepy

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attract

fat people smoking
seem to exude, nay exhale
the lure of vegas

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peanut gallery

drake's bay likes southeast
excellent start for new year's
you just need some stones

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drake's squall

break between the storms
stiff southeast screams up steep slopes
what good's sixty knots?

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less than super

Look, up in the air!
It's a bird, a plane, a frog ...
sack of potatoes!

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somewhat later that same night

Tequila haiku:
You motherfucking shithead!
I and I kill you!

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first shot

Is your mastery
deep enough? Ineffable ...
tequilla haiku!

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cipher

Is it possible?
Perfect undistorting lens
a soundless haiku

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bomb scare

'The bomb' : frijoles
fermenting slowly, surely
in Kurtis's gut

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zen

rub and rub and rub
polish with all of your might
wordless perfection

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higher ground

snow line at 5k
ascend the frigid snowy peaks
rise above the rain

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Centering

When you're up on bank
but your vario goes hush
search towards your low wing

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Meteorology

Flat-bottomed heaven
rising thermal shown to us
cumulus forming

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don't drink the water

i kneel at the throne
straining to puke my guts out
was it the tacos?

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self-conscious

recursive haiku
verse about verse about verse
where does it all end?

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dolce vita

landed by the lake
the breeze is warm the beer cold
valle de bravo

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epidemiology

sharing the air
four hundred strangers trade germs
the airline plague

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upswing

winter depression
relents with lengthening days
we've passed the solstice

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craft

words jostle and shove
like stones tumbling in the surf
slow birth of a jewel

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refining

the stones in a stream
are not polished smoother than
a perfect haiku

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Poisoned

Like starfish feeding
I strain to evert my gut
tainted sandwiches

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First lesson

Limit your imputs
be a sack of potatoes
let the glider fly

truth is where you find it

In wine you find truth
in thermals you find updrafts
in tequila--worms

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In the limit

Absurd refinement
a poem polished to naught
zero syllables

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bomb scare

Your warning is apt
i will ride up tomorrow
in the other truck

Know yourself

My heart leaps with joy
when my vario sings out
I am Pavlov's dog

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Sunglasses

Cool shades show your soul
by obscuring your features
like cars for your face

Meaning

Grok mortality
there is no great hereafter
make your joy here now

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woof!

Snowdrifts beckoning

inner golden retriever

barks, "come out and play!"

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blech

Waves of nausea
break across my damp fevered brow
winter flu season

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Theology

Endless talk of god
can't take you into heaven
like a phat thermal

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slang

"wimp": used by posers
without proper surf-cult cred
they say "pussy" here

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test

Testing one two three
This is nothing but a test
There's no haiku here.

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beachbreak

Bodybreaking surf
hectic triple-high reef break
mean north shore storm swell

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going numb

Surprise of the week:
there were secret prison camps.
Where is the outrage?

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