embrace the heat

With the right mind-set
this bus soothes like a sauna
It's all in your mind

funny, they don't look zooish!

Over-heated bus
strips the veneer of culture
smells like an ape-house

developed

Third-world aromas
on this over-heated bus
who brought the chickens?

cancelled

Massive Convection
elates terrifies and bores
stuck here in Hartford

not going up

Thunderstorms drift past
I Drool for the booming lift
stuck on this runway

Vice

The left's conundrum
how to blacken Cheney's name.
Can soot be tarnished?

pot cover

Grey and elastic
the inversion pens us in
a sky like iron

trapped

A sky like iron
pins the pollution on us
muggy inversion

adaptable

Wonderfully plastic
orca learned to hunt herring
like hawks chasing gnats

topsy turvy

Neither fish nor fowl
Cheney is above the law
and beneath contempt

bright? not bright?

Tattoos still look bright
long after they look stupid
with the passing years

time

Faces sag with age
as damage accumulates
sun has no mercy

rumpled

Caught the red-eye flight
slept with three hundred strangers
how fresh should I look?!

apportioning

Off-load mere data
keep the RAM for processing -
think! Don't just recall

scanning for resonance

Knowing just my tastes
not aesthetic rules for all
I float this balloon

plastic memory

Who might I have been
if i had not learned to read?
A world self-contained?

strategic fall-back

Tiers of human shields
smugly delay, them resign.
Bush runs out the clock

in our own image

Weaving drunkenly
robots struggle to drive straight
Scarily life-like

as good as human?

Weaving drunkenly
robots drive in two lanes each.
Scarily life-like

read the omens

Bedding sticks to me
too hot to sleep in Berkeley
fly Slide tomorrow?

This is only a test

testing 1 2 3
does this damn thing really work?
or is it foobarred?

writing on wind

My cell service sucks
haiku vanish in transit.
All is transience

limits

a scheme so lawless
tapping phones without warrants
even Ashcroft balked

craft

many-layered world
evoked so imperfectly
ambiguous verse

haiku craft

one sparkling snap-shot
of a life's shifting textures.
lapidary verse

Duke Cunningham

Is it his hot-tub?
or his moral turpitude?
something smells rotten.

something smells

for the same reason
diapers and politicians
should be changed often

evil smells, evil times

Randy Cunningham's
politics smell as bad as
his septic hot tub

alienation

death claims us piece-meal
in this bland saltless milieu
so far from our sea

whose agent?

Bob Gates announces
decades-long occupation
proves Bin Laden right

slow learner

China Barn's wisdom:
"If you break it, you've bought it"
Dubya bought Iraq

mixed agendas

crusading bigots
eager for war-time powers
stoke war in Iraq

same agenda

Dubya's crusaders
like Bin Laden's Jihadists
bring the Eschaton

rebound

drained of taste and tint
synapses sag to baseline
the morning after

attrition

We took the big fish.
Cod, tuna, swordfish--all gone.
Pass the krill salad

up the chain

Court rules: Scooter lied
Dubya denies pardon plans.
Who'll say "Dubya lies"?

credibility

Scooter didn't know
that Cheney had outed Plame.
Wanna buy a bridge?

context-sensitive

Down, down to nine k
still a thousand over launch
but I sure feel low!

Context sensitive

Down, down to nine k
still a thousand over launch
boy, do I feel low!

high enough

Higher than white peak
I ain't going near that bitch
summer in the whites

credibility

Scooter didn't know
that Cheney had outed Plame.
Wanna buy a bridge?

culture of lies

Court says"Scooter lied"
Dubya denies pardon plans
Who'll say "Dubya lies"?

jurisdiction

Court rules: scooter lied.
Dubya denies pardon plans.
Who'll say Dubya lies?

rebound

drained of taste and tint
synapses sag to baseline
the morning after