priorities

There's just one tax-base 

 war leaves every child behind 

 learn priorities! 

flattened rhetoric

"safe legal and rare"

 expressed rare sense and nuance 

 in this sound-bite age

wired

God is a figment

but opiates are sure real 

we're wired for them both

time and tech

Cherrypickers rock!

 had Agamemnon had six 

who would know of Troy?

Apolllonian

Brilliant Achilles 

none could face his blazing wrath 

his fame defies death

oh no, not again

steadfast in his course

like a rock, only dumber

Bush strafes Syria

cosco busan

shocking new finding: 

 the bay pilot was at fault 

 when he rammed the bridge

benchmark 10/23/08

 touching down mid-span 

the setting sun drops below 

 the golden gate bridge

'round and 'round

The moon's last sliver 

 lighting the east horizon 

 points to the new dawn

reckless

Greenspan clarifies 

 two decades of unchecked greed 

"I made a mistake"

gut check

Bad breakfast topic 

 when hangglider pilots chat 

 prion diseases

time-average

Play derivatives 

 through the market's ups and downs 

 integrate to zilch

social filters

women trust their dogs 

 to judge human character 

 it pays to play nice

marginal benefit

uncoated nosewires 

 scraped Scott's face when he whacked in 

 fucking hazardous

laboring to communicate

Publication stalled 

 for metrical purposes 

 twelve more revisions 

whack!

  Pretty good landing 

 he can reuse the aircraft 

 when he recovers 

attention span

Left my hat again 

 every time the sun goes down 

I lose interest 

10/26/08

South wind in the night 

 hints at falling air pressure 

 and the coming front

whose side is she on?

Who will tell Palin 

"spiritual warriors"

 are Mujahedin?

10/25/08

 Dunlap wasn't strong 

 those who ventured far from launch 

quickly lost it all

the passing of America

Trading liberty 

 for homeland security 

 we achieve neither

pecking order

Celebrity chefs 

treat critics like royalty 

 and their staff like dirt 

PV=nRT

Compressive heating

 racing down the Rockies' slope 

The Chinook eats snow

foehn

The chinook cranks up 

 racing down the Rockies' slope 

 eating the snow-pack

portents on the wind

 I smell hills burning 

 when the north east wind blows hot 

fear trumps my own nose

let there be light

shake an electron

with magnets or whatever

a photon falls out

Dubya

flaccid editing

dulls the new Stone film's impact

it feels way too long

like a rock

Opportunities 

 bounce right off George double-you 

 he just never learns

Military expertise

Powell's endorsement 

 cites economic factors 

 what's he not saying?

the past isn't even past

Later at leisure

 the mind conjures up nightmares 

 of a threat long past

is there anybody in there?

Berkeley Iron Works 

 echoes emptily at noon 

 what's the holiday?

limits

 Shedding my glasses 

I rely on memory 

I can't count my toes 

Quixotic

 dripping jaws of death 

 threaten to crush his small boat 

James tilts at dredges

Twitter twaddle

 In this cluttered world 

bad haiku proliferate 

 good ones are still scarce

extrapolate to zero

Trance-tracks of heartbeats 

 seem to pulse on forever 

until they just stop

sea-change

Watch Colin Powell 

 he harbors his own ideas 

October surprise

serendipity

Carve them like gemstones 

 then strew haiku on the beach 

 for those who have eyes

search strategy

When you're thermalling 

 but you've blundered out of lift 

 hunt toward your low wing

urgency

Boiling green madness 

 all make haste to reproduce 

Spring rocks the tundra 

a fire upon the deep

Vernor Vinge dared cast 

 distributed computing 

 as biology

ominous

What's this approaching? 

cirrus clouds dim the sunshine 

 intimating change

guru laughed

 Learn what not to want: 

 that way you'll find contentment.

it just looks easy

I'm with stupid

 ...woke in Orinda 

 next to a republican 

 profoundly depressed

adult supervision

Lionel and Bill 

 offered to take the kids out 

 suddenly, Scott's in

rough game

Globalization 

 lured Iceland to gamble big 

 for sale: one island

firesale

For sale: one island 

 cash-poor but energy-rich 

wanna buy Iceland?

wretched excess

Smoked tongue and grilled ducks 

 bodies ten-deep in the tub 

 that's entertaining!

limits

Absorbed by ozone 

 UV heats the tropopause 

 capping convection

search algorithm

When you're thermalling 

 but you've blundered out of lift 

hunt toward your low wing

Paulson's waffle

opportunists know 

politics may come and go 

but greed is timeless

Gen. 6:9

meaning needs context 

Gordon Brown's a Saviour 

in the Bush era

small hopes

we put in billions

to our broken bank system

all we ask is change

small hopes

we put in billions

to our broken bank system

all we ask is change

trust me

Hank Paulson offered

faith-based bank regulations

the voters want change

fixed like a tomcat

Did not you hear it?

The economy is fixed.

It's up ten percent

ominous shadow

From the church steeple 

 an owl tracks the rats below 

 death strikes noiselessly

there's light in the darkness

an insomniac

 reading latest WashPosh poll,

 crowing happily

plastic language

Since George Dubya Bush 

 the world has a new proverb 

"weak as a dollar"

outstanding obligations

Sixty-two trillion 

 tallied as derivatives 

could pass like the dew 

nightmare of the week

Sixty-two trillion 

 tallied as derivatives

 integrate to zilch

market bottom?

Dropped from high enough 

 even a dead cat will bounce

yet it remains dead

what's the opposite of Cassandra?

 Bush claims victory 

 fixing the economy 

 "mission accomplished"

Apocalyptic

 Bankers for Dubya 

 start to doubt faith-based banking

 in this End of Times

hang waiting

Down at Ed Levin 

 the students taste disappointment 

 the wind howls and wraps

Light and variable

 hear the convection 

 carrying heat into space 

 lending our flesh wings

Fish food

 tortured at Gitmo 

 they could never be released 

 now they're Soylent Green

partition

To preserve a life 

 the limb that cannot be saved 

 must be cut away

happy primate

Tired of dropping food 

I found tongs that really work 

 Obstetric forceps

Salem '08

A banker--burn him!

turned me into a pauper 

 and consorts with Bush

universal jurisdiction

exeut: George and Dick

pursued by the hounds of hell

to their just deserts

shrivelled souls

For want of hot-tubs 

 they chat primly on the couch 

 and vote GOP

first storm

Clouds hug the water 

 barely too high to be fog 

Summer's behind us

turn off your mind relax and float downstream...

Buoyed in this tube 

clad only in swirling light 

 the river takes me

the journey of a thousand miles

 Stand on your left foot 

shift forward onto your right 

 repeat as needed

convergence

Clouds bar the valley 

 from Black to Tinemaha 

 portents of John Voight

bbq@scott's

gorged on grilled duck breasts 

 the perils of hang gliding 

seem much more abstract

that's alarming

Violent sneezing 

 knocks loose arterial plaques -

which can cause a stroke