2008-09-30

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

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one of you is well trained

Why does the cat wait 
Until after my alarm 
To sit on my chest?

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2008-09-29

clueless

Bail 'til your hearts crack 
never mind her hull is sprung 
just trust us, George says

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2008-09-28

newbies

 they're so innocent
no theories, no bad habits
just jazzed to hang glide

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2008-09-26

puzzled spectator

flailing in the dusk
three naked pilots swat  flies
our own private rave

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2008-09-25

hypocrit

Dubya's new game-plan
 endorse bank regulations 
 but don't enforce them

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Debating

Indiana's Quayle 
 like a deer in the headlights 
 was crushed by Benson

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market share

Safeway brand briquettes
 the AT&T of coals
 everywhere, useless

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opportunity

Grasping the moment 
White House uses banks' crisis 
 to seize more powers

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2008-09-23

off-topic

 McCain's resume: 
"patriotic prisoner" 
what's the relevance?

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not separate enough

James Dobson conspires 
 to violate our tax code
 who will prosecute? 

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destination: dinner

Steak, pot-roast or steak 
 Harris Ranch revels in beef
 the patrons are large

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gamers

Bloated with salt-pork 
Alaska slurps tax dollars 
 like a great lamprey

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recursion ad absurdum

Ever more prisons 
 hire ever more lobbyists 
 to fund more prisons

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targetted message

White lines on asphalt 
might look like a cattle guard 
 if you're dumb as cows

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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

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Hangar foo

I arrived early 
for three o'clock departure
 we rolled out at five

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scary!

 "and neck injuries!" 
Justine barked without warning
 maybe it's Tourette's

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thou shalt not pass

Driving up Walt's launch 
we can see past White mountain 
John Voight block our path

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alternate entertainment

on Cerra Gordo 
 we explore the fossil beds 
rather than set up 

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etiquette

Relieving yourself 
 right where we're making the camp? 
Wast raised in a barn?

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six berries (blue), one lizard (roasted)

All our offerings 
 have been found acceptable 
Wanda forgives us

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timing is everything

Dusk and mosquitoes 
find us naked with our tubes 
 down by the river

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riverplay

 Dancing in the stream 
 the otter ignores my tube 
 floating the owens

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nasty infestation

scabrous and smelly
 the earth's surface is diseased 
 infested with Man

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missing pilot

 I guess it's my fault
I let him out of the car 
how long could one shop?

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the face of evil

glowing in dawn's light 
 beckoning the unwary 
 teddy bear cholla 

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maddened

Sometimes caribou 
when maddened by mosquitoes
 run right off a cliff 

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2008-09-18

Cheney's new front-man

John McCain flip-flops 
 on regulation of banks 
 like a fish on deck

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2008-09-16

autonomous II

rather than eat voles
the hawks are eating my snakes
they don't work for  me

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collateral damage

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

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half a puzzle

Clutching the apple 
 with his fist stuck in the jar 
one angry monkey

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glimpsed in passing

Squirming in her beak
 the snake resists the red-tail 
right over my head

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Sproul

 too many old men 
 recruiting kids to hang glide 
can be a turn-off

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cute vermin

Mad Squirrel accrues

A strategic reserve of

Giant red acorns

 

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2008-09-15

le cigale

Poor addled squirrel 
tries to hoard my tomatoes 
 they rot, we both starve

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Canute

His party's best hope 
 McCain stands against the tide 
 facts lap at his chin

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off-guard

Surprised by the jest
my reflexes betray me 
 beer sprays from my nose

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McCain's world

Our economy
is "fundamentally sound"
unless "facts" matter

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2008-09-14

O-sensei

scraping low on Hull
I get schooled by real experts
thermalling with hawks

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hypocrites

 Palin's supporters 
 grant her a pass on the facts 
 lying for Jesus

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escape

The elves sail westward
 spurning the curve of this world
 massless particles

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off the rails

Since the convention
McCain transcends Bush's base
as he transcends facts

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soul sorter

Without Higgs' bosons
we would float way from earth
like Tolkien's Eldar

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9/13/08

Hull was good today
we soared our fucking brains out
Leon got an hour

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finite jest

 His widow just found
David Foster Wallace hanged
 it's not so funny 

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2008-09-11

countdown

the BBC says
"that's the end-of-the-world news"
one day, they'll be right

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lose some, lose some

strange optimism 
doomsayers are undeterred 
each time they're proved wrong

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mostly harmless

Ariel Sharon
is now joined by Kim Jong Il
only "mostly dead"

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end of the World News

LHC start-up
"Word Doesn't Come to an End
best headline ever

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2008-09-10

official story

News of Kim Jong Il 
"he's hale as North Korea"
 build a short coffin

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2008-09-09

likeable!

Those who know her best 
don't push to support Palin 
 her charm is fleeting

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thunderous

Those who snore loudest 
 tend to die early from strokes 
 that's quite the bummer

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misplaced faith

Dubya feels no guilt 
 because he has perfect faith 
he's been forgiven

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externalities

Dancers' calloused feet
attest the years of hard work
in "effortless" art

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surfaces

Built of glass and chrome
 a whole city of mirrors 
grants scant privacy 

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2008-09-08

bit rot

Dawn bleaches the sky
blotting first way-points, then maps
like senility

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transported

Scents and memories 
linked by strengthened synapses
yank us back through time

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autonomous

Swiftly, the wing climbs
skywards like she knows the way 
sure wish I'd hooked in

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Doughnuts

 now we've banned trans fats 
 what will cap the benefits 
on police pensions? 

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closer

Step into the light 
 you'll be assimilated 
 like moths in a torch

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unbearable lightness

Sun strikes my scratched eye 
 skewering the optic nerve 
like a spitted fowl

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irrelevant

McCain keeps grumbling 
as if he were still alive 
that the press dis him

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blinding

Step into the light 
 eternity awaits you 
like cars wait for deer

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blinding

Step into the light 
 eternity awaits you 
like cars wait for deer

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cross

Staring down Walt's launch 
the wind blows in my right ear
 muttering dark thoughts 

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biocontrol

Cops line the highway 
isn't there a pathogen
 to limit this plague? 

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myopic

 Discounting the costs 
Friedman deems the 'surge' a win
 if we mean to stay

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fight nice

Sibling religions
 blind to their shared heritage 
fight for their dad's love

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wrongheaded

Cheney's bold world plan 
try torturing more Muslims -
 teach them to love us

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2008-09-05

what a drag

drivers on cell-phones
like gross arterial plaques
clog up our highways

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2008-09-04

uppity

Send in the cossacks
citizens are getting loud
 time to break some heads

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2008-09-03

bafflement

The straight-talk express
 is now belching clouds of smoke
 to hide his flip-flops

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manifest

Don't pelt cops with stones
offer them doughnuts instead
kill them with trans fats

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smoke and mirrors

Arrest the news crews!
 they'll just distract the voters 
 from Karl Rove's circus

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2008-09-02

tactical distraction

McCain violates a vaudevillian's rule to fog the issues

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tactical distraction

McCain violates a vaudevillian's rule to fog the issues

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vaudeville's rule

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

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2008-09-01

heckuva job

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

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anthropocentrism

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

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handle with care

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

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fragile

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

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tabula rasa

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

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don't mess with what's good

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

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conservation of mass

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

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well, that didn't work...

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

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follow the money

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

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