2009-07-29

don't laugh

swallow your coffee
spraying it out through your nose
gums up the keyboard

town v. gown

Henry Louis Gates
condescended to the cop
in his domecile

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dalit

In Dick Cheney's dreams
"safe undisclosed location"
meant "outside the law"

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influence

Streamlined senators
write laws for the lobbyists
not for the people

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2009-07-27

stimulating

Gurgling in my gut
signals the coffee's impact
breakfast is over

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for later

Dangling from the tree
excess habaneros dry
elvish pinatas

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contrast

A week without kids
never seemed such a big deal
until you had them

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magisterial

the new moon has set
scorpio claims half the sky
who would contest it?

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surrogates

Dog-scented rodents
fill an emotional void
for urban singles

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build your own cage

Pre-adapted fish
grew ribs before they had lungs
for no clear purpose

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failure to communicate

I tell the farmer
I just stepped out of the sky
he calls the sheriff

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delta-V

When running down-wind
you must subtract your hull-speed
to know the power

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of agents and actors

It is often taught
that the dose makes the poison
but the widow helped

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surly bonds

Pilots whirl on air
seeming to spurn gravity
temporarily

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adrift

In re Medellin
the Supreme Court came unmoored
from the Supreme Law

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home free

In Dick Cheney's dreams
"safe undisclosed location"
meant "outside the law"

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2009-07-20

theft

Ahmadinejad
the first person to translate
"Diebold" in Farsi

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too subtle

The Winter's Tale played
at the Winter Queen's wedding:
Comic or tragic?

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Michael Jackson's death
don't blame it on the moonlight
but on the boogie

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rejected

backwards and airborne
eyeing the ceiling with shock
last V-6 I try

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some are more equal

all the world's a stage
so why must some of us still
pay for our tickets?

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bleached

rolling towards the sun
our star-studded night blanket
slips off to blank blue

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our place

with each new sunrise
the soul-dwarfing depths of space
fade from consciousness

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attitude

arrogant stoner
tells his betters how to fly
rather than learning

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burned by Kindle

Amazon's long arm
wiped files from personal drives
straight out of Orwell

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stressful

bad aerobatics
test a wing's integrity
and one's parachute

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order

Drop the newspaper
on top of your mobile phone
lose an hour hunting

Amazon's long arm

1984
flushed down the memory hole
Orwell "remembered"

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depressed

Darkened shop windows
watch Berkeley's business district
sink in Dubya's mire

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Activists

The Medellin case
made this court's ambition clear
to shrug off the law

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breezeless

Not a breath of wind
the airs loll like sullen teens
pining for the mall

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missed messages

A life splits in two
by the time you've found that phone
you've made other plans

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not from 'round these parts

Gaily clad tourists
wave to the drivers who stopped
ceding the crosswalk

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fire good!

Tweaked up for high-test
our GI-tracts run poorly
on a raw diet

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2009-07-16

possibilities

A universe dwells
in this fragile box of bone
powered by glucose

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used

Pat Tillman was used
by Dick Cheney's war machine
to delude voters

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responsible

Stanley McChrystal
dishonored Tillman in death
and got promoted

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elemental needs

Without sodium
the most exquisite diet
can't keep you alive

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big town, small sky

Poor signal to noise
robs the heavens of their stars
so near a city

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lee-side

High summer soaring
too late on the sierra
keel-kicking madness

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let them be for signs and for seasons...

scorpio presides
over the sky when we camp
in flying season

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looking backwards, not forward

In Orwell's vision
future crimes could get you jailed
we look to the past

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2009-07-13

poise

That guy's really old
he can wear a pork-pie hat
without irony

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PIllsbury sunset

Alien bugles
pipe the sun out of the sky
elk come down to drink

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fit

Count the grandchildren
if you want to quantify
whom Darwin loves best

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ideological bent

Lamarck's big theory
exalted the force of will
but neglected chance

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E-ticket

High summer soaring
too late on the sierra
keel-kicking madness

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2009-07-07

growing closer

Like MDMA
confessional poetry
erodes normal bounds

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misrule

All across Iran
people gaze eastward with pride
that they're not Afghans

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sampling bias

Digging for values
beneath heaps of possessions
like fishing in sand

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carom

Moonlight on the bay
twice reflected from the sun
still dazzles the eye

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meet the new boss...

Revolutions end
idealists go power-mad
bow to the new Shah

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