2009-01-30

impeachment

Blago beats his breast
swears that  he's misunderstood
whiny little putz

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2009-01-29

talking heads

Even the headsman
can't arrest a pundit's tongue
'til he's done lying

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blather

 How long does it take 
pundits heads to stop lying 
 once they've been cut off? 

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2009-01-28

IOKIYAR

How long does it take
 a pundit to stop lying
 once his head's cut off?

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whom do you know?

 Pillaging the Fed 
 Paulson meted out billions 
 to his old cronies

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ouch

 Man gravely injured 
 in upholstery machine 
 wholly recovered

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 Archaeologists 
 dig in vain for his forbears 
 who's Malcom the tenth?

2009-01-26

won't someone tell him it's over?

Bill Kristol still rants 
 that conservatives were right 
 while his world falls down

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2009-01-25

real news

Sarcozy's lap-dog 
quadrupedal, bipolar 
 shows his blood is red 

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2009-01-23

Light in the tunnel 
 sparked hope 'til I recognized 
 an oncoming train

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bad math

We made enemies 
 faster than we could kill them 
 on George Bush's watch

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2009-01-22

of friends and their sofas

Losing track of time 
I get a night on the town 
 stranded by the BART

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nostos

Homeward bound at last 
 I traverse the briny bay 
 on dawn's soft pink wings

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haunting

Childhood's worst traumas 
 banished from our conscious minds
seep through in our dreams

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got rubber?

 highly elastic 
 only the wind provides drag 
 steel wheels on steel rails

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negotiation

softly she replied:
 "that would be inopportune"
rather than say "no"

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2009-01-19

leadership?

Secretary Gates 
 vouchsafes continuity 
 in a failed process

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2009-01-17

Moebius

Contemplate the mind 
 and the compulsion to compose 
 recursive haiku

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external memory device

Off-loading one dream 
I can process a next thought 
writing empowers 

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compulsion

External storage 
 frees the mind to think new thoughts 
 so I write haiku

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in his own eyes

Blinded by the light 
Bush can't see the real world's ills 
"moral clarity"?

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faith

Hugging the bereaved 
we make plans for the future 
 as if we're not next 

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passion

More brave than prudent 
 a hummingbird shows great verve 
 harrassing a hawk

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external memory

Off-loading one dream 
I can process a next thought 
 writing empowers

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compulsion

External storage 
frees the mind to think new thoughts 
 so I write haiku

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2009-01-15

somatic hypermutation

Like a loaded gun 
Cytosine deaminase 
 comes with its own risks 

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confirmation hearings

Cure insomnia! 
 give a senator a mic 
 no content needed

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unseasonable

 Pink apple blossoms 
 don't get greenhouse gas debates 
 they just think it's spring

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2009-01-13

insolation

sun grazes the orb 
 no convection stirs the air 
 raptors perch glumy

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unexpected consequences

Enforcing 'virtue' 
the mullahs brought disrepute 
 to their own project

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presidential records

Cloaked in secrecy 
Bush evaded the law's reach 
 and his just deserts

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appetites

Bush's ambitions 
 never included world peace 
 he craved war-time powers

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power of the purse

GM is a bank 
 qualifying for bail-out 
 who knew? I'm the pope

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check, and mate

Shopping for allies 
 Blago found Burris willing 
 to endure his stench

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Somatic mutation

 Memory b-cells 
 encode more antibodies 
 than our whole genome

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pow

Sunday on the slopes 
 Friday's powder underfoot 
 squeals like amalgam

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sporting

Sugarbowl's waiver:
 sign here, have fun, don't call us 
 it's expert-only

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party uber alles

Speaker Pelosi 
 preferred partisan warfare 
 to good governance

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Rodney King

 Acquitting bad cops 
 LA threw out rule-of-law 
 and provoked riots

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choice

always bear in mind :
all launches are optional 
 quite unlike landings

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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 

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glib lawyer

John Yoo has flip-flopped 
 backing checks and balances 
 now that Bush is out

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Justice is blind

 Dubya's S.EC. 
 demurred to investigate 
 Madoff's Ponzi scheme

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uppity primates

Year in and year out 
 fungi make more CO2 
than all of mankind 

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extraordinay rendition II

 Kidnapped, then half-drowned 
 Cheney should be tried abroad 
 poetic justice

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extraordinary rendition

To see justice done 
Cheney should be tried abroad 
 like Adolf Eichmann

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the race is not always to the swift...

After forest fires 
oaks compete for the sunlight 
 like sharks vie for flesh

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Israeli drama

With Sharon removed 
 a new generation vies 
to be the tough guy

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no vestige of a beginning

 Hutton gazed at rocks 
 and saw uncounted ages 
 earth formed by deep time

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nobody gets to see the wizard!

Where are the pluots? 
 right here. . .but I can't sell them 
 come back tomorrow

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equality?

through their schools' failings 
 many live lives of hard toil 
 rather than of thought 

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fluid boundaries

anomalous tides 
 lay bare swaths of the sea floor 
where geoducks dwell

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expecting

Some silly parents 
 think 'the twos' end at three years. 
 who's being childish?

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New Year's break

Safe beneath his log 
the lizard's cold dreams ignored
 a boy's prying hands

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Darwin approves

 Red-tailed hawks' courtship 
 subtly tests a mate's fitness 
 airborne pas-de-deux

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1/12/09

 Mocking Winter's grip 
 hawks soar Lafayette's warm hills 
 as if it were Spring

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powerful tools

 Like a loaded gun 
Cytosine deaminase 
 comes with its own risks

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