rugged individualist

Utterly alone

 he doesn't "do" family 

 was he raised by wolves?

Wolf!!

Act right now in fear! 

 grant the White House all powers! 

new crisis, same song

one of you is well trained

Why does the cat wait 

Until after my alarm 

To sit on my chest?

clueless

Bail 'til your hearts crack 

never mind her hull is sprung 

just trust us, George says

newbies

 they're so innocent

no theories, no bad habits

just jazzed to hang glide

puzzled spectator

flailing in the dusk

three naked pilots swat  flies

our own private rave

hypocrit

Dubya's new game-plan

 endorse bank regulations 

 but don't enforce them

Debating

Indiana's Quayle 

 like a deer in the headlights 

 was crushed by Benson

market share

Safeway brand briquettes

 the AT&T of coals

 everywhere, useless

opportunity

Grasping the moment 

White House uses banks' crisis 

 to seize more powers

off-topic

 McCain's resume: 

"patriotic prisoner" 

what's the relevance?

not separate enough

James Dobson conspires 

 to violate our tax code

 who will prosecute? 

destination: dinner

Steak, pot-roast or steak 

 Harris Ranch revels in beef

 the patrons are large

gamers

Bloated with salt-pork 

Alaska slurps tax dollars 

 like a great lamprey

recursion ad absurdum

Ever more prisons 

 hire ever more lobbyists 

 to fund more prisons

targetted message

White lines on asphalt 

might look like a cattle guard 

 if you're dumb as cows

scroungy

 blotchs of marsh grass 

 mask the mud-flats of Dry Lake 

 like plugs on a scalp

access denied

Early on Walt's launch 

 the wind howls down the road-cut 

 it's rocking the truck

Hangar foo

I arrived early 

for three o'clock departure

 we rolled out at five

scary!

 "and neck injuries!" 

Justine barked without warning

 maybe it's Tourette's

thou shalt not pass

Driving up Walt's launch 

we can see past White mountain 

John Voight block our path

alternate entertainment

on Cerra Gordo 

 we explore the fossil beds 

rather than set up 

etiquette

Relieving yourself 

 right where we're making the camp? 

Wast raised in a barn?

six berries (blue), one lizard (roasted)

All our offerings 

 have been found acceptable 

Wanda forgives us

timing is everything

Dusk and mosquitoes 

find us naked with our tubes 

 down by the river

riverplay

 Dancing in the stream 

 the otter ignores my tube 

 floating the owens

nasty infestation

scabrous and smelly

 the earth's surface is diseased 

 infested with Man

missing pilot

 I guess it's my fault

I let him out of the car 

how long could one shop?

the face of evil

glowing in dawn's light 

 beckoning the unwary 

 teddy bear cholla 

maddened

Sometimes caribou 

when maddened by mosquitoes

 run right off a cliff 

Cheney's new front-man

John McCain flip-flops 

 on regulation of banks 

 like a fish on deck

autonomous II

rather than eat voles

the hawks are eating my snakes

they don't work for  me

collateral damage

her shadow clips me
as the redtails soars above
her prey still wriggles

half a puzzle

Clutching the apple 

 with his fist stuck in the jar 

one angry monkey

glimpsed in passing

Squirming in her beak

 the snake resists the red-tail 

right over my head

Sproul

 too many old men 

 recruiting kids to hang glide 

can be a turn-off

cute vermin

Mad Squirrel accrues

A strategic reserve of

Giant red acorns

 

le cigale

Poor addled squirrel 

tries to hoard my tomatoes 

 they rot, we both starve

Canute

His party's best hope 

 McCain stands against the tide 

 facts lap at his chin

off-guard

Surprised by the jest

my reflexes betray me 

 beer sprays from my nose

McCain's world

Our economy

is "fundamentally sound"

unless "facts" matter

O-sensei

scraping low on Hull

I get schooled by real experts

thermalling with hawks

hypocrites

 Palin's supporters 

 grant her a pass on the facts 

 lying for Jesus

escape

The elves sail westward

 spurning the curve of this world

 massless particles

off the rails

Since the convention

McCain transcends Bush's base

as he transcends facts

soul sorter

Without Higgs' bosons

we would float way from earth

like Tolkien's Eldar

9/13/08

Hull was good today

we soared our fucking brains out

Leon got an hour

finite jest

 His widow just found

David Foster Wallace hanged

 it's not so funny 

countdown

the BBC says

"that's the end-of-the-world news"

one day, they'll be right

lose some, lose some

strange optimism 

doomsayers are undeterred 

each time they're proved wrong

mostly harmless

Ariel Sharon

is now joined by Kim Jong Il

only "mostly dead"

end of the World News

LHC start-up

"Word Doesn't Come to an End" 

best headline ever

official story

News of Kim Jong Il 

"he's hale as North Korea"

 build a short coffin

likeable!

Those who know her best 

don't push to support Palin 

 her charm is fleeting

thunderous

Those who snore loudest 

 tend to die early from strokes 

 that's quite the bummer

misplaced faith

Dubya feels no guilt 

 because he has perfect faith 

he's been forgiven

externalities

Dancers' calloused feet

attest the years of hard work

in "effortless" art

surfaces

Built of glass and chrome

 a whole city of mirrors 

grants scant privacy 

bit rot

Dawn bleaches the sky

blotting first way-points, then maps

like senility

transported

Scents and memories 

linked by strengthened synapses

yank us back through time

autonomous

Swiftly, the wing climbs

skywards like she knows the way 

sure wish I'd hooked in

Doughnuts

 now we've banned trans fats 

 what will cap the benefits 

on police pensions? 

closer

Step into the light 

 you'll be assimilated 

 like moths in a torch

unbearable lightness

Sun strikes my scratched eye 

 skewering the optic nerve 

like a spitted fowl

irrelevant

McCain keeps grumbling 

as if he were still alive 

that the press dis him

blinding

Step into the light 

 eternity awaits you 

like cars wait for deer

blinding

Step into the light 

 eternity awaits you 

like cars wait for deer

cross

Staring down Walt's launch 

the wind blows in my right ear

 muttering dark thoughts 

biocontrol

Cops line the highway 

isn't there a pathogen

 to limit this plague? 

myopic

 Discounting the costs 

Friedman deems the 'surge' a win

 if we mean to stay

fight nice

Sibling religions

 blind to their shared heritage 

fight for their dad's love

wrongheaded

Cheney's bold world plan 

try torturing more Muslims -

 teach them to love us

what a drag

drivers on cell-phones

like gross arterial plaques

clog up our highways

uppity

Send in the cossacks

citizens are getting loud

 time to break some heads

bafflement

The straight-talk express

 is now belching clouds of smoke

 to hide his flip-flops

manifest

Don't pelt cops with stones

offer them doughnuts instead

kill them with trans fats

smoke and mirrors

Arrest the news crews!

 they'll just distract the voters 

 from Karl Rove's circus

tactical distraction

McCain violates a vaudevillian's rule to fog the issues

tactical distraction

McCain violates a vaudevillian's rule to fog the issues

vaudeville's rule

never share the stage
with children or animals
if your act is good

heckuva job

when the levee breaks
army's corp of engineer
got no place to go

anthropocentrism

One small blue planet
scarcely worth a second glance
except that it's ours

handle with care

Shut up in this ark
floating through chaotic dark
earth seems a poor bet

fragile

Shut up in this ark
tossed about through dark chaos
earth seems a poor bet

tabula rasa

A monstrous great flood
like reversing creation
damn near wiped earth clean

don't mess with what's good

Life-threatening plaques
taught us to disdain trans fats
butter is better

conservation of mass

If he breaks training
won't twelve thousand calories
strike Michael Phelps dead?

well, that didn't work...

Save for one boot-drive
Noah's flood wiped the earth clean
Ctrl/Alt/Del

follow the money

Cancelling one bridge
Palin scored big PR points
but kept the ear-marks