2007-03-28

apathy

George bets we won't care
but judicial over-sight
is worth fighting for

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2007-03-26

entrenched power

control their news feeds
disenfranchise the suckers
let them have game shows

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patriotism

When is there no choice?
Civil disobedience
may be our duty

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2007-03-24

males look at flowers

like troops of lancers
lupines in their serried ranks
guard the mountain pass

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2007-03-23

inertia

anyone can see
change is opportunity
but we're comfortable

2007-03-22

reality bites

Middle management:
kissing ass and sucking dick.
Great side benefits!

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who needs it?

Leave the oxygen
you'll rocket to eighteen k
when you're under-dressed

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live free

Video kills souls
seize the initiative
kill your tv set

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inner retriever

Elsie strokes my beard
giggling at me, she opines:
'you are like a dog!'

2007-03-20

of the people

A Nascar nation
embraced this uncouth regime
racing towards ruin

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skewed

Kenneth Starr argues
free speech is for some only
Bong hits for Jesus

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2007-03-19

just as dead

Performance reviews
are garrotes for office games
unpleasant, but neat

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adaptation

VPs craft reviews
because their fangs are so short
tool-using weasels

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weapons are tools, too

VPs craft reviews
to augment their meager worth
tool-using weasels

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2007-03-17

unseasonable

Slide? or McClellan?
flowers bloom in mid-winter
all is uncertain

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Spring skiing

Cement in reverse:
start the morning with a rock
end with a mush pile.

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trust the data

Weather forecasting
conflicts with reality
the forecast loses

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2007-03-15

Will Rogers lives

I do not write jokes
I just watch the government
and report the facts

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2007-03-14

privatization

Segregated schools
impoverish poorer kids
to enrich the rich

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2007-03-12

class warfare

Enrich the rich kids
impoverish the others
privatize school-rooms

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image

show your true substance
no soul behind the cool shades
bitchin' camaro!

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engage

our deaths are certain
eat life or life will eat you
don't go with regrets

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use the press

Cheney in trouble
the courts want him under oath!
let's invade someone

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devastation

cod in their millions
swarmed like countless mosquitoes
but we ate them all

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bad puppet

for our proxy wars
we choose the biggest hammer
yet we expect tact

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perspective

bored with fun itself?
or rapturous just to breath?
all is relative

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power

arrogant gardeners
dispense life and death to plants
as if we were gods

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support the troops

"send us more armor"
went unheeded. Now we hear:
"send more body-bags"

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due process

warrantless wiretaps
abrogate the rule of law
and empower thugs

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location, location, location

snow frosts the hill-tops
lending charm to Winter's storm.
down here, it just rains

authority

wielding the "sole truth"
the U.S. bludgeons the world
Whom would Jesus bomb?

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parenting

their's is the future
but they live in the present
love the children now

mockery

tossed by autumn's wind
mocking summer's butterflies
dead leaves flutter by

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2007-03-11

insiders rewarded

'The Departed' won
instead of a better film
'The Lives of Others'

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phonelinked

Haiku are simple
but archiving is awkward
so i use a blog

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justice thwarted

Fitzgerald out-flanked.
the promise of a pardon
buys Libby's silence

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Bereft

One pillar is gone.
How will we bear up the weight?
Today, heaven sags

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Left behind

Now, the heavens sag;
one less pillar holds their weight.
She's dead and buried

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The regrets are ours

On top of her game
no slow death by attrition.
She's gone like a breath

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Out of touch

Incurious George
can't grasp that Iraq is lost.
Wagers still more lives

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That well is dry

"Bail me out once more!"
Dubya whines to his father.
"maybe not this time"

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realpolitik

divide and conquer
civil war is just the means
Iraq, balkanized

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Others

Don't impute malice
when ignorance will suffice.
So hard to live by!

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Intimations of Immortality

All flesh must decay
yet this brain gave us a mind
and this life resounds

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angle of attack

Pushing the nose up
he leaves the slope on stalled wings.
airborne, not flying

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materialism

All flesh must decay
but brain-flesh manifests mind.
does this fade to black?

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Proust

Old port in Winter
evokes the warmth of Summer
one sip at a time

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plato's alphabet

our literate souls
(viruses from outer space)
dream of transcendance

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of wines and whines

Decanting the port
I discard what I don't like.
Can one decant kids?

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Focus

Mortal as we are
we yearn for what cannot be
and neglect to live

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spell of the sensuous

animate landscape
each tree, bird and beast speaking
murdered by the book

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wonders II

What wonders are lost
making the world fit our map
filtering out awe?

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wonders I

Who else might I be
If I knew no theories?
If I could not read?

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Resource-limited

Newton slew the elves.
His laws left no room for them
and so they left us

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Float downstream

Put reason on hold.
Leary can bring back the elves.
It just takes a drop

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One mind, one world

Newton slew dragons
his laws left no room for them.
Cold, cruel sir Isaac!

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Communication

Bright glimpses of life
freeze-frames of another's world
haiku from strangers

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in front at last

Ahead of the pack
showing the first leadership
Kerry has bowed out

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On this night

Toast the old Scot's art
raise a glass to Bobby Burns
but skip the haggis

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So simple

Just three great thinkers:
Newton, Darwin and Williams
explain a man's world

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Williams' law I

Each man's dilemma:
cogitate or procreate.
Blood is limiting

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Williams' law II

A rigid member
or rigorous mentation
five pints can't feed both

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Isomorphic

Our club has three modes:
flying, teaching, partying.
It's not quite like gaul

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choose your search set

Sure, the odds are good
to hook up in Alaska
but the goods are odd

teleology

No god is needed
to explain the world we see
know Darwin loves you

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Value

Mere dust and ashes
and the crown of creation
grok that you are both

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etiology

1)Random mutations
2) God's utility function
both shape each of us.

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Somehow familiar

A slow-smoked beef tongue
tickles taste buds and tonsils
as if it were home

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Tradition

Migrating monarchs
follow paths they've never trod
but their grand-dads knew

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on the road

rivers of asphalt
threaten to flood all the earth
cars dance on our graves

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stand up

defy the darkness
Dubya won't reign forever
sow justice, reap peace

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fair warning

Cows low in the mists
like foghorns in the greyness
warn me where's the beef.

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aspiration

Cumulus Towers
map the flow of energy
upward like our dreams

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Small mysteries

I kill the engine
but still, rumblings puzzle me
parked on a storm drain

bloat

Bland television
fills the hours of empty lives
as oats fill Haggis

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recycling

What had been a man
will walk as a man again.
In between, it's worms.

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Valentine's Day

Bees probe each blossom
slurping nectar, spreading genes.
Cupid's wee arrows

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Relax and float downstream

Tap your in-most brain
lizards cavort in the sky
when we let them drive

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crescent

A bright whisp of moon
slashes the starry heaven
like a scythe reaps grain

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packaging

marketing genius
makes us buy what we can't use.
e.g. John Kerry

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salesmen

marketing genius
makes us want what we don't need.
e.g. "Olestra"

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utilitarianism

A lush green meadow
blooms and jumps and hums with life
cows just know it's "grass"

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