nice assets

Cynically scheming
to run off with Clinton's votes
McCain chose great legs

tactical incompetence

Palin serves McCain
shielding him from assassins
like Cheney serves Bush

lesser evil

George can sleep in peace
immunized from assassins
by fear of Cheney

last gasp

Down from the white north
Palin comes to breath new life
into the old man

delusional

By his mere speech act
Bush creates reality
or so he fancies

democracy

Shielded from the facts
the citizenry can't rule
are elections shams?

renewed

Immersing my flesh
the tub massages my aches
all woes float away

big secret

the elves have taught me
how anyone can lose weight
Eat Less Food, Stupid

so fleeting

His world-record split
stood for about three minutes
'til Lezac crushed it

unmoored

Mere facts can't stop him
he's in the myth business now
George just makes shit up

usurped

Shielded from the facts
the citizenry can't rule
are elections shams?

executive privilege

governor Palin
believes on the rule of law
except for family

as good as Quayle

Nominee Palin
could long out-live john McCain
Who thinks she's ready?

but he said "he respects me"!

gazing in his eyes
Bush thought he glimpsed Putin's soul
god, he's such a ditz

polling bias

extensive polling
revealed what the voters want
"a bigger penis"

judgement

gazing in his eyes
Bush thought he glimpsed Putin's soul
god, he's such a ditz

out of touch

"bring them on!" Bush crowed
from the safety of his desk
our troops deserve more

Ossetia

Short-sighted housewife
let dog in to chase out cat
the dog ate her lunch

limbo

Still Sharon lingers
not quite alive, not quite dead
like the peace process

grasping

Greedy for power
Dubya passed on bin Laden
he preferred 'crusade'

bought?

To win Bill's favor
Wal-mart put her on their board
labor offered less

wedgie

Sowing dissention
Republicans fete Clinton
like it's about her

forward-looking

lambasting McCain
Hillary feeds her campaign
for two thousand twelve

Snow Forest

Beyond 'teen-aged boy'
Roy Parvin finds a new voice
'middle-aged woman'

Ora pro nobis

O saint Hillary
Obama needs Florida
intercede for him!

dust and ashes

Though no more than apes
whose small Earth has a plain Sun
we understand all

arrogance

seizing new powers
Dubya plays at being god
as proud as satan

playing rough

Bloomberg declared trump
clubbing peaceful protestors
Beijing followed suit

evil precedent

Bloomberg set the tone
persecuting protestors
Beijing followed suit

nasty infestation

ear-marks and bad laws
show that lobbyists were here
like mouse turds in rice

blaring

The east-bay firetruck
is emblazoned 'BFD'
Big Fucking Deal, eh?

before the fall

trampling on the law
Cheney thinks himself a god
Satan thought so too

monstrous arrogance

Cheney condescends
but these peasants remember
pitchforks and torches

untimely

Four hundred years on
Galileo gets his due
popes live such long lives

underworld

tunnelling upwards
as if from the planet's core
voles raid my garden

oppression

Thousands arrested
for voicing their politics
bad cop! No doughnut

two-faced

funding both parties
lobbyists insure their place
at the big buffet

born again

I've been born again
after a trip to Haiti
I've transcended death

diphacinone II

lush vines with no fruit
those who know can read the clues
the damned voles are back

jealous gardener

finding voles' larders
I stock them with dainty treats
and diphacinone

illegitimate

I can jest no more
they turn bitter on my tongue
the jokes run congress

diphacinone

Lush vines with no fruit
clues are there for those with eyes
the damned voles are back

the party line

we are all Georgians
pass me another glass of
neocon koolaid

now

Your entire life
led you to this one moment
just like all the rest

security? job security

arming each faction
Bush's "surge" fuels their conflict
we're stuck between them

indispensable

unwilling to leave
Bush makes sure Iraq can't heal
he arms all factions

security? job security

arming each faction
Bush's "surge" fuels their conflict
we're stuck between them

indispensable

unwilling to leave
Bush makes sure Iraq can't heal
he arms all factions

risible

I can jest no more
they turn bitter on my tongue
the jokes run congress

build an ark

Forty months later
New Orleans still ain't home free
dispatch the raven

negative space

A dent in the sand
marks for a passing moment
the space where I'm not

bootstraps

Zombies of the morn
Shuffle into the sunlight
"must ... drink ... more ... coffee ..."

value

JFK hotel
nightly rate is not so cheap
for 4 hours sleep

unreliable

taunting the Russians
Saakashvili trusted Bush
he forgot the Kurds

change II

regime change succeeds
in Pakistan and Nepal
why not here as well?

legitimacy

Democracy works
in Pakistan and Nepal
why not here as well?

equilibrium restored

Bass eructations
vent the excess CO2
from beers pounded fast

using nature

how to swim faster?
move more water with each kick
grow longer toe nails

WordTorrent

Biden for VP?
who'll edit the eulogies?
He can't stop talking

repose

our club camps simply
like so many walruses
hauled out on the shore

urrp

earth's eructations
jolt us out of ice ages
greenhouse trumps snowball

one maps to two

leaving the Matrix
I manifest a new mind
from the same old brain

memories

tossed in Ian's tent
not all the beers were empty
he still remembers

the view from the palace

Saakashvili boasts
"freedom's light will never die"
not so his soldiers

Woody

We serve for Allen
as collective therapists
working through his art

exceptionalism

U.S. Took Iraq
then feigned outrage but stood by
when Russia lashed out

flaccid

San Pedro's blossoms
when the show's done, fold up like
cuttlefish at rest

mosh

Schools of squealing kids
swirl like herring fleeing sharks
burning off dessert

kinship II

Small coughing children
all who breathe
septic kinship marks

kinship

Small coughing children
innoculate all who breathe
kinships marked by germs

alliances

Climbing in the gym
routes are clearer from the floor
four eyes beats two eyes

ask a user

silly interface
presumes I already know
what I'm looking for

foundational myths

bipolar nation
intolerant Puritans
fleeing oppression

corrupt

covering up crimes
rather than prosecuting
Gonzales played dumb

out there

Michael Phelps crushed them
not from another planet
he's from the future

consigliere

choosing loyalty
over enforcing the law
Mukasey stays bought

Ossetia

Inviting Russians
to push out the Georgian troops
they play a fool's game

perspective

gazing at the stars
stripped of our technologies
makes a man feel small

recursive

silly interface
presumes I already know
what I'm looking for

stolen moment

SF morning bliss
in the Stevenson alley
covert cigarette

who serves whom?

Scott's new tub heater
flashes an imperative:
"Service Air Flow Switch"

High Art

between the towers
defying mortality
Philippe Petit danced

short man, short temper

Georgia's president
provoked Russia's invasion
mocked Putin's stature

dawning of the age

before LSD
only prophets wrote poems
like Leonard Cohen's

same river twice

Aching, sore, and stiff.
Lost playground glories of youth
thy name is kickball

cactus blossom

suddenly one night
San Pedro's blossoms open
gaping wide for bats

short

who dares tell Putin
beating up on the Georgians
won't make him taller

lies

privatize profits
let taxpayers eat the risk
call it "the Market"

hull

waking on red-spot
first rays glint on St. John's dome
the milk steamer squeals

fate

cheese quesadilla
travels to rug cheese side down
most unfortunate

unclear

Hillary endorsed
but her delegates stay free
mushy messages

discipline

one-forty letters
the tiny window of tweet
allows for haiku

hubris

demons are wary
of letting us know their names
only Leejon dares

call a priest

voices in my head
telling me what must be done
their name is Leejon

possessed

voices in my head
wisper how the world should be
their name is Leejon

free will

mischievous gods
cast us into lawless seas
and dare us to swim

too much?

over-sized heater
over-shoots the tub's setpoint
poaching us like crabs

don't need no teeth

as rust works on iron
so smoke transmutes pork shoulder
into something new

it's a hanging

foresaking Berkeley
they move someplace cold and wet
worlds turned upside-down

superfluous?

Obama's VP
mustn't be an "insider"
so what can he bring?