Right wing Delusion

Fuck legality!
George has a mandate from God!
he'll make the world Right

clogged

Urban arteries
have atherosclerosis
we call it traffic

You can't make me

George disdains restraint
ruling at whim and by force
president as brat

waiting

Caught in the doldrums
Orion says 'ski season'
but the slopes are bare

vacant

A greedy landlord
drove Cody's off Telegraph
but can't rent the space

secondary metabolites

plants make alkaloids
to deter herbivory
fun is a bonus

plan "B"

Plants make alkaloids
because they can't run away
from their herbivores

Pelosi's legacy

Gutless democrats
entrench evil precedents
by letting George slide

not with a bang...

Cheney's power-grab
repeals the Enlightenment
apathy trumps hope

not my America

Cheney's ugly dream
ignores the Enlightenment
banking on darkness

generation gap

Two strata dancing
while we chat over our drinks
kids whirl at knee-height

boilerplate

Such a glut of prose
I grow weary sifting words
finding no ideas

experienced IV

Hillary Clinton
brings White House experience
most of it in bed

experienced III

She fucked Bill Clinton.
That's a qualification?
the field's wide open!

experiended II

She fucked Bill Clinton
If his interns turned him down.
That's an endorsment?

experienced

She slept with Clinton
when he scored nothing hotter.
That's an endorsment?

Commuters II

After a workday
workers migrate to suburbs
fungal fairy-rings

commuters I

At end of workday
workers migrate to suburbs
cities blastulate

demographic tie-die

The cities beckon
through psychic chemotaxis
gaia blastulates

such a leader

George Dubya leads us
beyond the enlightenment
into great darkness

Beowulf

Around Beowulf
Gaiman spins clever midrash
linking dam to damned

Romeo&Juliet

High school's best-loved play
tells a tale of love and death
and star-crossed lovers

it has atmosphere

Heaven's star-pierced vault
wraps our world in warm embrace
oxygen's bounty

subtle scents

Our genome encodes
twelve hundred GPCRs
and half are for smell

It's a matter of taste

Who can justify
so many GPCRs
just for gourmandise?

Feinstein's gambit

threats to civil rights

will always rally voters

so we'll string them out

finite

It's a fearsome fate
that we love what death must claim
but life is like that

Hearts and minds:

Kill one innocent
her entire clan will hate us
there's no progress here

glory

Beowulf won fame
disarming a mere monster
but dragons die hard

Mission accomplished

We've subdued Baghdad
don't mind the rest of Iraq
they have no film-crews

too much

Yanked skywards too fast
It's less fun when It's easy
cloud-suck worries me

soaring

Climbing out from launch
Wuffos dwindle to mere specks
and my cares with them

ra rising

rainbow highlights shine
on gossamer primaries
morning cloud angel

just do it!

Some anarchists feel
"propaganda of the deed"
brings the Eschaton

aha!

Opening her hands
she accepts the gift of flight
and lets the wing fly

home

Yanked into the sky,
I still track that blue planet
I'll want it later

Mukasey

trampling due process
what could his agenda be?
does he hate muslims?

diwali

Candles ring the bay
Rama's back in mountain view -
Diwali Pujah

radix est malorum

Chasing a paycheck
Ashcroft shills for tyranny
what a patriot!

democracy

Voters who don't read
choose governments who don't care
who can be surprised?

life is for learning

KT-boundary
a gap in education
wikipedia!!

widespread destruction

Metaphor for George,
destroyer of planets:
"KT- boundary"

reification

Dismissed in two words
whole eco-systems laid waste
"KT-boundary"

up the hill

First one-fifty flight
diving hard towards the planet
keeps students focused

location, location...

the bar scene is lame
too few women love a drunk
try ballroom dance class

autumn

Trees cast off their leaves
banking assets in their roots
dreaming of the sun

impermanence

One dies, one is born
yet the family persists
built of transients