crepitus (der maur)

Like jagged bone-ends
partitioned Berlin grated
can Einheit heal it?

agent of death

I love glyphosate
poisoning the poison oak
I feel like Shiva

too pure

demand perfection!
Don't bother to vote at all
b'Olam haZeh

Absurdism

demand perfection!
Don't bother to vote at all
this world's imperfect

covet this

SF restaurants
novel, spendy food a must!
ten dollar poutine

day-job

All great poets know
there's nothing like employment
to destroy your art

Christmas in april

Christmas in April
I gaze out my motel door
as the snow drifts down

Medellin case

supreme court Amok
Fuck the supremacy clause!
we make the laws now

Stop-loss

Don't recruit more troops
current soldiers have no voice
keep them 'til they die

factorial?

Sexual postures
multiply for giant squid
more legs, more options

diminished sensation

Image, thought, language. . .
stacked layers of metaphor
keep each self lonely

asymmetry

our lonely left brains
mediated by language
can't touch each other

the duck's burden

madly beating wings
to repel gravity's pull
ducks wish they could glide

human condition

Craving connection
we grasp sex, drugs, religion. . .
still we're each alone

inspiration

On the Scottish heath
"Hey McCloud! Get off my ewe!"
Jagger found his muse

unenforceable

Religious goon squads
try to endorse modesty
I piss on their beards

post-Weber

Newton bequeathed us
disenchantment of the world
Leary gave us elves

best government money can buy

Corporate dollars
buy the policies they want
through corrupt parties

senseless

four thousand dead kids
more deaths won't give it meaning
bring the troops home now

euphemism

slippery Dubya
creating desolation
he crows he's brought "peace"

mirrors and lenses

Though he seems a flake
he has a rich inner life
he's his own hero

sound judgement

On MDMA
each song seems exactly right
but your judgement's bunk

Exotic cattle

Platelet donor drive
here's a warm stall with clean lines
line up to get milked

exercise

Four more three hundreds
tending two launches takes work
sweat streams off my beard

signifier and substance

A beard means nothing
every ass-hole has got one
wisdom is rarer

kitchen toys, hold the kitchen

surely it's genius
rechargeable blender con
12-volt adapter

cosmic alignment

Between two bright orbs
lined up like great billiard balls
earth greets the full moon

tabula rasa

During the big bang
information was erased
we can't know 'before'

monarchy model

Adoptionism
obviates the trinity
Hans Küng's heresy

growing up

Losing her mother
who stood between her and Death
she feels His cold breath

tune in turn on drop out

Out of the rat race
hooked into infinity
Timothy Leary

Society

From the day we're born
we're conditioned to behave
one big Skinner box

nuncio

High priest of Harvard
drawing back the veil of death
Timothy Leary

showtime

Fooled by a mirror
turkeys dance for a mirage
that's entertaining

suburban show

Peering at the glass
turkeys gobble and display
stupid fucking birds

vermin values

Does Dick have ethos?
one can only speculate
was he raised by ticks?

punchy

Luminous new leaves
glow against storm-darkened skies
contrasts define March

R-strategy

Swarms of fucking voles
breed too fast to kill them all
exponential plague

entropy rules

acknowledge the lord!
If you're a good Kelvinist
this world does make sense

sleight of hand

Eclipsed by his wars
Dick's program at home slips through
who'll call it treason?

so like us

Eating just the heads
coastal wolves gorge on salmon
maggots get the rest

blowout

Grossly unstable
Tam lures us to roll the dice
but it's blowing stink

second thoughts

Clouds seen awfully low
but two crows soar above me.
Should I be on Tam?

microfiction

Denser than haiku?
Felix Feneon presents
novels in three lines

inner guide

Hawks perched on fence-posts
wait for a better lapse rate.
How do they judge it?

Maxwell's demon

skimming the fastest,
evaporatize cooling
sorts by energy

tabernacle

Tell them to build it
that I may dwell within them
'though it stays empty

America's business

Backing the strongman
while preaching democracy
and arming both sides

Bushistan

Fallon spoke his mind
and has been forced to retire
truth's unwelcome here

mass delusion

Hundreds blind themselves
seeking visions of Mary
It's a metaphor?

Boleyn film II

Just lying there, limp
"the other Boleyn girl" fails
to arouse passion

Boleyn fim I

Weirdly passionless
"the other Boleyn girl" fails
costumes can't save it

patience

Been poisoned by oak?
Leperous first week is worst,
it dries up after :)

Iran next?

Like tots with matches
Dick and George keep setting fires
then just lose interest

dumb and dumber

Chin-deep in two wars
Cheney threatens Iran, too
And he's the 'smart one'?

death discriminates

Swaths of orange grass
mark my forays with RoundUp
poison oak just shrugs

immune response

T-Cells primed to kill
try to rid me of my skin
I feel rejected

inventory reduction

Who would not be sad?
such a price to make more space:
giving up our Dreams

van Gogh knew it

Ear of constant ooze,
I should never have touched it
after plant contact.

rejected

T-cells primed to kill
try to rid me of my skin
poison oak just sucks

final destination (Lafayette)

gazing down from BART
tombstones cap the lush green hills
I know that I'm home

3/1/08

high winds and low clouds
inauspicious day to fly
we hiked King's Canyon

3/1/08

High winds and low clouds
inauspicious day to fly
we hiked King's Canyon