2008-08-31

nice assets

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

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2008-08-30

tactical incompetence

Palin serves McCain
shielding him from assassins
like Cheney serves Bush

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lesser evil

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

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last gasp

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

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delusional

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

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democracy

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

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renewed

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

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2008-08-29

big secret

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

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so fleeting

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

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unmoored

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

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usurped

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

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executive privilege

governor Palin
believes on the rule of law
except for family

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as good as Quayle

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

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but he said "he respects me"!

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

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polling bias

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

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2008-08-28

judgement

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

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out of touch

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

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Ossetia

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

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limbo

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

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grasping

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

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bought?

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

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wedgie

Sowing dissention
Republicans fete Clinton
like it's about her

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forward-looking

lambasting McCain
Hillary feeds her campaign
for two thousand twelve

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2008-08-27

Snow Forest

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

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2008-08-26

Ora pro nobis

O saint Hillary
Obama needs Florida
intercede for him!

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dust and ashes

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

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arrogance

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

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2008-08-25

playing rough

Bloomberg declared trump
clubbing peaceful protestors
Beijing followed suit

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evil precedent


Bloomberg set the tone
persecuting protestors
Beijing followed suit


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nasty infestation

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

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blaring

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

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before the fall

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

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2008-08-24

monstrous arrogance

Cheney condescends
but these peasants remember
pitchforks and torches

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untimely

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

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underworld

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

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oppression

Thousands arrested
for voicing their politics
bad cop! No doughnut

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2008-08-23

two-faced

funding both parties
lobbyists insure their place
at the big buffet

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born again

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

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diphacinone II

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

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jealous gardener

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

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2008-08-22

illegitimate

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

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diphacinone

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

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the party line

we are all Georgians
pass me another glass of
neocon koolaid

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now

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

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2008-08-21

security? job security

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

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indispensable

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

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security? job security

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

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indispensable

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

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risible

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

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build an ark

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

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negative space

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

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2008-08-20

bootstraps

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

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value

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

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unreliable

taunting the Russians
Saakashvili trusted Bush
he forgot the Kurds

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change II

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

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legitimacy

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

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equilibrium restored

Bass eructations
vent the excess CO2
from beers pounded fast

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2008-08-19

using nature

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

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2008-08-18

WordTorrent

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

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2008-08-17

repose

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

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urrp

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

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one maps to two

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

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2008-08-15

memories

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

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the view from the palace

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

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Woody

We serve for Allen
as collective therapists
working through his art



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exceptionalism

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

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flaccid

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

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mosh

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

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kinship II

Small coughing children
all who breathe
septic kinship marks

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kinship

Small coughing children
innoculate all who breathe
kinships marked by germs

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alliances

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

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2008-08-14

ask a user

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

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foundational myths

bipolar nation
intolerant Puritans
fleeing oppression

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corrupt

covering up crimes
rather than prosecuting
Gonzales played dumb

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out there

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

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consigliere

choosing loyalty
over enforcing the law
Mukasey stays bought

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Ossetia

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

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perspective

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

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recursive

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

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stolen moment

SF morning bliss
in the Stevenson alley
covert cigarette

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who serves whom?

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

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High Art

between the towers
defying mortality
Philippe Petit danced

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short man, short temper

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

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dawning of the age

before LSD
only prophets wrote poems
like Leonard Cohen's

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2008-08-13

same river twice

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

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2008-08-12

cactus blossom

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

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short

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

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lies

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

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2008-08-11

hull

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

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2008-08-08

fate

cheese quesadilla
travels to rug cheese side down
most unfortunate

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unclear

Hillary endorsed
but her delegates stay free
mushy messages

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discipline

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

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2008-08-06

hubris

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

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call a priest

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

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possessed

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

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free will

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

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2008-08-04

too much?

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

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don't need no teeth

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

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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?

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