impeachment

Blago beats his breast

swears that  he's misunderstood

whiny little putz

talking heads

Even the headsman

can't arrest a pundit's tongue

'til he's done lying

blather

 How long does it take 

pundits heads to stop lying 

 once they've been cut off? 

IOKIYAR

How long does it take

 a pundit to stop lying

 once his head's cut off?

whom do you know?

 Pillaging the Fed 

 Paulson meted out billions 

 to his old cronies

ouch

 Man gravely injured 

 in upholstery machine 

 wholly recovered

X

 Archaeologists 

 dig in vain for his forbears 

 who's Malcom the tenth?

won't someone tell him it's over?

Bill Kristol still rants 

 that conservatives were right 

 while his world falls down

real news

Sarcozy's lap-dog 

quadrupedal, bipolar 

 shows his blood is red 

Light in the tunnel 

 sparked hope 'til I recognized 

 an oncoming train

bad math

We made enemies 

 faster than we could kill them 

 on George Bush's watch

of friends and their sofas

Losing track of time 

I get a night on the town 

 stranded by the BART

nostos

Homeward bound at last 

 I traverse the briny bay 

 on dawn's soft pink wings

haunting

Childhood's worst traumas 

 banished from our conscious minds

seep through in our dreams

got rubber?

 highly elastic 

 only the wind provides drag 

 steel wheels on steel rails

negotiation

softly she replied:

 "that would be inopportune"

rather than say "no"

leadership?

Secretary Gates 

 vouchsafes continuity 

 in a failed process

Moebius

Contemplate the mind 

 and the compulsion to compose 

 recursive haiku

external memory device

Off-loading one dream 

I can process a next thought 

writing empowers 

compulsion

External storage 

 frees the mind to think new thoughts 

 so I write haiku

in his own eyes

Blinded by the light 

Bush can't see the real world's ills 

"moral clarity"?

faith

Hugging the bereaved 

we make plans for the future 

 as if we're not next 

passion

More brave than prudent 

 a hummingbird shows great verve 

 harrassing a hawk

external memory

Off-loading one dream 

I can process a next thought 

 writing empowers

compulsion

External storage 

frees the mind to think new thoughts 

 so I write haiku

somatic hypermutation

Like a loaded gun 

Cytosine deaminase 

 comes with its own risks 

confirmation hearings

Cure insomnia! 

 give a senator a mic 

 no content needed

unseasonable

 Pink apple blossoms 

 don't get greenhouse gas debates 

 they just think it's spring

insolation

sun grazes the orb 

 no convection stirs the air 

 raptors perch glumy

unexpected consequences

Enforcing 'virtue' 

the mullahs brought disrepute 

 to their own project

presidential records

Cloaked in secrecy 

Bush evaded the law's reach 

 and his just deserts

appetites

Bush's ambitions 

 never included world peace 

 he craved war-time powers

power of the purse

GM is a bank 

 qualifying for bail-out 

 who knew? I'm the pope

check, and mate

Shopping for allies 

 Blago found Burris willing 

 to endure his stench

Somatic mutation

 Memory b-cells 

 encode more antibodies 

 than our whole genome

pow

Sunday on the slopes 

 Friday's powder underfoot 

 squeals like amalgam

sporting

Sugarbowl's waiver:

 sign here, have fun, don't call us 

 it's expert-only

party uber alles

Speaker Pelosi 

 preferred partisan warfare 

 to good governance

Rodney King

 Acquitting bad cops 

 LA threw out rule-of-law 

 and provoked riots

choice

always bear in mind :

all launches are optional 

 quite unlike landings

chronic inflammation

Bereft of daylight 

workers seethe in cubicles 

 like ingrown whiskers

greed

Dick Cheney's cabal 

 corrupted our whole culture 

 for his private gain 

glib lawyer

John Yoo has flip-flopped 

 backing checks and balances 

 now that Bush is out

Justice is blind

 Dubya's S.EC. 

 demurred to investigate 

 Madoff's Ponzi scheme

uppity primates

Year in and year out 

 fungi make more CO2 

than all of mankind 

extraordinay rendition II

 Kidnapped, then half-drowned 

 Cheney should be tried abroad 

 poetic justice

extraordinary rendition

To see justice done 

Cheney should be tried abroad 

 like Adolf Eichmann

the race is not always to the swift...

After forest fires 

oaks compete for the sunlight 

 like sharks vie for flesh

Israeli drama

With Sharon removed 

 a new generation vies 

to be the tough guy

no vestige of a beginning

 Hutton gazed at rocks 

 and saw uncounted ages 

 earth formed by deep time

nobody gets to see the wizard!

Where are the pluots? 

 right here. . .but I can't sell them 

 come back tomorrow

equality?

through their schools' failings 

 many live lives of hard toil 

 rather than of thought 

fluid boundaries

anomalous tides 

 lay bare swaths of the sea floor 

where geoducks dwell

expecting

Some silly parents 

 think 'the twos' end at three years. 

 who's being childish?

New Year's break

Safe beneath his log 

the lizard's cold dreams ignored

 a boy's prying hands

Darwin approves

 Red-tailed hawks' courtship 

 subtly tests a mate's fitness 

 airborne pas-de-deux

1/12/09

 Mocking Winter's grip 

 hawks soar Lafayette's warm hills 

 as if it were Spring

powerful tools

 Like a loaded gun 

Cytosine deaminase 

 comes with its own risks