over-developed

Storms darken the sky
thunder rolls down the valley
too much Convection?

scandal du jour

First Foley, then Craig
theG.O.P. keeps it up
screwing the public

Party platform

One more sex scandal
Idaho's senator Craig
a platform of wood

knowing

Toss revelation.
no book can show you yourself
you are the guru

ringing

If you dilate time
low frequency tinnitus
just goes boom boom boom

novelty

We crave the new, but
novelty is not genius
race to the bottom ...

asymmetry

This law is unfair
the whole world is your latrine
for Y chromosomes

Outhouse or the trees?

Outhouse or the trees?
the line is so damn long, but ...
cops are on the prowl!

Demographics

Strangers on the trail
hiking our national parks
"Do you speak English?"

ouch

Fucking coaster brake
carelessly activated
heinous contusions

empire of cynics

Ruthless hegemon
invokes god to conceal greed
whom would jesus bomb?

denial

my friends describe me
'problems with intimacy'
but they don't know me

skunked

Smoke fills the owens
Raptors perch rather than flap
stable as a grave

klooge

Tongue, lips, diaphram
re-purposed machinery
to encode a thought

opiates

Comforting the hurt
and laying low the mighty
is heroin god?

Aug 18 '07

Hard south at Walt's pt
I can't launch and I can't see
smoke fills the owens

Rove departs

Party in shambles
allies alienated
bye-bye Architect!

progress

Dubya dropped cocaine
and drink and womanizing
one big Vice to go

hopeful trend

Dubya quit cocaine
and drink and womanizing.
One more Vice to quit

alone

Karl Rove has resigned
after years of abuses
Bush's brain is gone

someone else's sons

flag-draped early graves
accuse George of class warfare
he orphans the poor

errant

When I lose the Way
I sweat and tremble and ache
I get the Tao-jones

end-game

One friendly regime
may be our consolation
set Kurdistan free

congressional cowards

Too meek to defend
our constitutional rights
why reelect them?

discriminating minds

Splitting "us" from "them"
we reduce the need to think
but tear worlds apart

labels

marking "us" and "them"
we divide the universe
and make war likely

Pelosi on wiretaps

don't throw out the pigs
even when they eat your lunch
just dub them "kosher"

focus

pythons kill rodents
with no cruel feline foreplay
absolute sang-froid

intelligent design?

round bone meets flat bone
femur on tibial head
ball-peen on anvil

centering

When you're up on bank
but you're no longer climbing
search towards your low wing

reduce, reuse, recycle

Manna? No such thing.
when we've eaten the planet
give'em soylent green!

Stop, Prometheus!

Teach a man to fish
and he'll deplete the oceans
leave him in Eden

July 4th

Freed from British rule
we serve the mad ambition
of our own king George

sales

Hard-paste porcelain?
Aluminum silicate?
The name makes the price