2008-10-31

priorities

There's just one tax-base 
 war leaves every child behind 
 learn priorities! 

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flattened rhetoric

"safe legal and rare"
 expressed rare sense and nuance 
 in this sound-bite age

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2008-10-28

wired

God is a figment
but opiates are sure real 
we're wired for them both

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time and tech

Cherrypickers rock!
 had Agamemnon had six 
who would know of Troy?

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Apolllonian



Brilliant Achilles 
none could face his blazing wrath 
his fame defies death

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oh no, not again

steadfast in his course
like a rock, only dumber
Bush strafes Syria

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2008-10-27

cosco busan

shocking new finding: 
 the bay pilot was at fault 
 when he rammed the bridge

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benchmark 10/23/08

 touching down mid-span 
the setting sun drops below 
 the golden gate bridge

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'round and 'round

The moon's last sliver 
 lighting the east horizon 
 points to the new dawn

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reckless

Greenspan clarifies 
 two decades of unchecked greed 
"I made a mistake"

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gut check

Bad breakfast topic 
 when hangglider pilots chat 
 prion diseases

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time-average

Play derivatives 
 through the market's ups and downs 
 integrate to zilch

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social filters

women trust their dogs 
 to judge human character 
 it pays to play nice

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marginal benefit

uncoated nosewires 
 scraped Scott's face when he whacked in 
 fucking hazardous

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laboring to communicate

Publication stalled 
 for metrical purposes 
 twelve more revisions 

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whack!

  Pretty good landing 
 he can reuse the aircraft 
 when he recovers 

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attention span

Left my hat again 
 every time the sun goes down 
I lose interest 

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10/26/08

South wind in the night 
 hints at falling air pressure 
 and the coming front

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whose side is she on?

Who will tell Palin 
"spiritual warriors"
 are Mujahedin?

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10/25/08

 Dunlap wasn't strong 
 those who ventured far from launch 
quickly lost it all

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the passing of America

Trading liberty 
 for homeland security 
 we achieve neither

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2008-10-23

pecking order

Celebrity chefs 
treat critics like royalty 
 and their staff like dirt 

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PV=nRT

Compressive heating
 racing down the Rockies' slope 
The Chinook eats snow

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foehn

The chinook cranks up 
 racing down the Rockies' slope 
 eating the snow-pack

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portents on the wind

 I smell hills burning 
 when the north east wind blows hot 
fear trumps my own nose

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2008-10-22

let there be light

shake an electron
with magnets or whatever
a photon falls out

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2008-10-21

Dubya

flaccid editing
dulls the new Stone film's impact
it feels way too long

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like a rock

Opportunities 
 bounce right off George double-you 
 he just never learns

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2008-10-20

Military expertise

Powell's endorsement 
 cites economic factors 
 what's he not saying?

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the past isn't even past

Later at leisure
 the mind conjures up nightmares 
 of a threat long past

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is there anybody in there?

Berkeley Iron Works 
 echoes emptily at noon 
 what's the holiday?

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limits

 Shedding my glasses 
I rely on memory 
I can't count my toes 

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Quixotic

 dripping jaws of death 
 threaten to crush his small boat 
James tilts at dredges

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Twitter twaddle

 In this cluttered world 
bad haiku proliferate 
 good ones are still scarce

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2008-10-18

extrapolate to zero

Trance-tracks of heartbeats 
 seem to pulse on forever 
until they just stop

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sea-change

Watch Colin Powell 
 he harbors his own ideas 
October surprise

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serendipity

Carve them like gemstones 
 then strew haiku on the beach 
 for those who have eyes

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2008-10-16

search strategy

When you're thermalling 
 but you've blundered out of lift 
 hunt toward your low wing

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urgency

Boiling green madness 
 all make haste to reproduce 
Spring rocks the tundra 

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a fire upon the deep

Vernor Vinge dared cast 
 distributed computing 
 as biology

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ominous

What's this approaching? 
cirrus clouds dim the sunshine 
 intimating change

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guru laughed

 Learn what not to want: 
 that way you'll find contentment.
it just looks easy

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I'm with stupid

 ...woke in Orinda 
 next to a republican 
 profoundly depressed

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adult supervision

Lionel and Bill 
 offered to take the kids out 
 suddenly, Scott's in

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2008-10-14

rough game

Globalization 
 lured Iceland to gamble big 
 for sale: one island

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firesale

For sale: one island 
 cash-poor but energy-rich 
wanna buy Iceland?

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wretched excess

Smoked tongue and grilled ducks 
 bodies ten-deep in the tub 
 that's entertaining!

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limits

Absorbed by ozone 
 UV heats the tropopause 
 capping convection

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search algorithm

When you're thermalling 
 but you've blundered out of lift 
hunt toward your low wing

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Paulson's waffle

opportunists know 
politics may come and go 
but greed is timeless

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Gen. 6:9

meaning needs context 
Gordon Brown's a Saviour 
in the Bush era

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small hopes

we put in billions
to our broken bank system
all we ask is change

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small hopes

we put in billions
to our broken bank system
all we ask is change

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2008-10-13

trust me

Hank Paulson offered
faith-based bank regulations
the voters want change

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fixed like a tomcat

Did not you hear it?
The economy is fixed.
It's up ten percent

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ominous shadow

From the church steeple 
 an owl tracks the rats below 
 death strikes noiselessly

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there's light in the darkness

an insomniac
 reading latest WashPosh poll,
 crowing happily

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plastic language

Since George Dubya Bush 
 the world has a new proverb 
"weak as a dollar"

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outstanding obligations

Sixty-two trillion 
 tallied as derivatives 
could pass like the dew 

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nightmare of the week

Sixty-two trillion 
 tallied as derivatives
 integrate to zilch

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market bottom?

Dropped from high enough 
 even a dead cat will bounce
yet it remains dead

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what's the opposite of Cassandra?

 Bush claims victory 
 fixing the economy 
 "mission accomplished"

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Apocalyptic

 Bankers for Dubya 
 start to doubt faith-based banking
 in this End of Times

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2008-10-12

hang waiting

Down at Ed Levin 
 the students taste disappointment 
 the wind howls and wraps

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Light and variable

 hear the convection 
 carrying heat into space 
 lending our flesh wings

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Fish food

 tortured at Gitmo 
 they could never be released 
 now they're Soylent Green

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2008-10-09

partition

To preserve a life 
 the limb that cannot be saved 
 must be cut away

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2008-10-06

happy primate

Tired of dropping food 
I found tongs that really work 
 Obstetric forceps

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Salem '08

A banker--burn him!
turned me into a pauper 
 and consorts with Bush

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universal jurisdiction

exeut: George and Dick
pursued by the hounds of hell
to their just deserts

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2008-10-03

shrivelled souls

For want of hot-tubs 
 they chat primly on the couch 
 and vote GOP

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first storm

Clouds hug the water 
 barely too high to be fog 
Summer's behind us

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turn off your mind relax and float downstream...

Buoyed in this tube 
clad only in swirling light 
 the river takes me

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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

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bbq@scott's

gorged on grilled duck breasts 
 the perils of hang gliding 
seem much more abstract

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that's alarming

Violent sneezing 
 knocks loose arterial plaques -
which can cause a stroke

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