2010-01-30

hypocrites

Iran's government
clothes itself in piety
blood streaks against green

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2010-01-29

solemn audience

Staring through the mist 
 big-eyed owlets watch me fetch 
 the morning paper

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the white ribbon

 What about Sigi 
 Innocent, hanging, bleeding? 
Does he stand for Christ?

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Yazid

Iran's government 
 renounced legitimacy 
 to rule by brute force

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epistomology

Job threw up his hands 
 don't presume to understand 
 any divine plans

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Will Rogers

They say "a statesman 
 is a dead politician"
 we need more statesmen

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professional liar

Ahmad Chalabi 
lied the lies Dubya wanted 
 that's diplomacy

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parsimonious

Luis Alvarez 
explained dinosaurs' demise 
with a single stone

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Alvarez

One proverbial 
stone wiped out the dinosaurs 
 that's parsimony!

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heavy probe

Proteins bind Xenon 
in hydrophobic pockets 
 where water won't stick

2010-01-26

magic fungi

cheese has humble roots
coagulated casein
needs fungal magic

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curios

if we kill our farms
parks of pristine wilderness
can't save the planet

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2010-01-25

a pawn in God's bet
Job still dismissed bad advice
even from his friends

clean slate

Nickel-sized hailstones 
 scours away the biofilm 
 cleansing the earth's face

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bread and circus II

Subsidizing gas
 drives excessive consumption 
'til the well runs dry

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bread and circus

Subsidized petrol 
 drives excessive consumption 
'til the well runs dry

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2010-01-24

jobs creation

Celebrate Luddites 
 they create so many jobs 
 one stitch at a time

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trap

Encircling mountains 
 drain into the Great Salt Lake 
 smog piles up like salt

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2010-01-23

Jonah

go to Nineveh 
 prophesize the change to come 
 their kine deserve it

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false banner

Rank misogyny 
motivates the Taliban 
 more than piety

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poignant

Szechuan pepper-corns 
 stimulate the appetite 
while they numb the tongue

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impressionable

Silver and linens 
wasted on this audience 
 I come for the food

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irresponsible

Chairman Bernanke 
 blames a Chinese savings glut 
 for our deficit

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not slinky

Universal sport 
 requires neither ball nor field 
 nor even a bed

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dark day

A storm of locusts 
 strips the fields of leaf and bud 
blotting out the sun

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2010-01-21

half-wit

Brooks' illogic 
see the threat of tyranny 
 only from the Left

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free press

Vatican outrage 
shines more press on Avatar 
 success is assured

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Haiti

Grim confirmation 
 US marines are welcomed 
 conditions are dire

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cancel the picnic

Thunder rocks the hills 
 hailstones plant themselves in mud 
 sowing the whirlwind

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Healthcare, redux

 why do insurers
 have so much money to spend
 on their lobbying?

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priorities

For carbon bike-frames 
 catastrophic failure modes 
 out-weigh the grams saved

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tao

Guide the butcher knife 
into the interstices 
 bones just dull your edge

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too holy to care

For Pat Robertson 
Haitians earned their suffering 
 smug condescension

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abomination

Corporate persons 
grow by buying influence 
 and they're immortal

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corporate masters

Now more than ever 
 real campaign finance reform 
 tops the agenda

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2010-01-19

collective action

endlessly patient
raindrops gnaw at mountainsides
dreaming of canyons

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2010-01-18

time will tell

A plague of haiku 
multiplying on Twitter 
 most of them are crap

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Tikkun olam

This world can be healed 
 more than you do for yourself 
 do for your fellow

delusions

Invading Iraq 
 messianic fantasy 
 trumped US interests

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rear-guard

Timothy Geithner 
 serves his cronies on Wall Street 
 not the citizens

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1/18/10

"Chance of tornadoes"
forecast for the Monday storm
Wednesday's is stronger

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what's the opposite of Free Speech?

Chinese censorship 
 hamstrings those who circumvent 
 state propaganda

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priorities

Succoring bankers 
 rather than the unemployed 
 breeds revolution

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cyber-war

Business in china 
 has to work around Pirates 
 they run the country

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above all that

Smiling benignly 
 the crescent of a new moon 
 hangs above the storms

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Aesop understood

Unlike the Mylar 
 my Dacron sail still flies great 
 as the years flit past

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flying tortoise

Aesop understood 
 Dacron sails still perform 
 when the Mylar fails

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limbic circuits

thinking takes too long
 when speed is of the essence
let the lizard drive

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2010-01-17

diversion

A well-turned ankle 
 swishing down the avenue 
 can strike grown men dumb

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pervert

Our constitution 
 meant what John Yoo said it meant 
 through the looking-glass

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age II

Haughty Tythonis 
 achieved immortality 
and lived to rue it

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age

Haughty Tythonis 
 achieved immortality 
 but he missed his youth

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coherence

What's different today? 
Is it a new editor? 
Maureen Dowd made sense

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1/17/10

orographic lift 
 builds up Diablo's cap-cloud 
 too gnarly to fly

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choices

Ian MacKellan
might have ruled as Saruman
but Gandalf's nobler

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2010-01-16

immigrant dreams

surgeons tending bar
dream of a better future
for their children here

existential angst

To live or to die 
 who can stay cool in the face 
 of final questions

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ambiguous

Millionaire Bruce Wayne 
 and his young ward Dick Grayson 
 titilate Gotham

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stand up for your rights

MLK taught us 
that no man can ride your back 
 unless your back's bent

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sisyphean

Fighting entropy 
 shows the world that I'm alive 
 sweep the floor, again

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the guy's got pull

Archimedes bragged 
 just give me a place to stand 
 and I'll move the earth

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not gonna take it

Bloodied but unbowed 
 the Iranian people 
 call for Yazid's head

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solipcists

For Americans 
 revolution in Iran 
 scarcely makes the news

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deeply inverted

LA's atmosphere 
 stratifies like a deep lake 
heated from above

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Karman vortex streets

Shedding vortices 
a bridge is pumped rhythmically 
 by a steady wind

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2010-01-14

equanimity

To live or to die 
 who can stay cool in the face 
 of final questions?

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ambiguity

Millionaire Bruce Wayne 
 and his young ward Dick Grayson 
 titilate Gotham

universal values

Kansans and Kazakhs
chat while riding the ski-lift
the world skis Utah

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under-employed

Such cultured english 
 in a parking attendant 
 marks a recession

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Spring-like

Well, it isn't ice
 neither is it fresh powder 
 my snowboard grumbles

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A Single Man

Great performances 
 in films that no one will see 
 fall like silent trees

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roots of liberty

Teaching kids to think 
 rather than to just pass tests 
 subversive teacher

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Crohn's disease

Intestinal worms 
preempt the host's leukocytes 
 soothing lullabies

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Crohn'

Intestinal worms 
preempt the host's leukocytes 
 soothing lullabies

private reality

Whether right or wrong 
 he's "absolutely certain"
 they don't correlate

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cold stare

Someone's watching us 
 climbing out of the hot tub 
 creepy old snowman

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be here now

The past is over 
 the future may never be 
 now is all we have

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the editor's eye

Accidental art 
my spell-checker discovered 
 I am the snow-bard

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last runs

The shadows grow fast
 even as I ride the lift 
 the piste ices up

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ambiguity

who knows what words mean?
 all language is metaphor
 unless it's pure math

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hormones

Life was so simple 
 now we're multicellular 
 and it's so complex

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trapped

Salt Lake inversion 
 obscures the dearth of new snow 
 pray for the next storm

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fix it again, Tony!

Designed by fiat 
 the chinese economy 
 is over-heating

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alien

unequipped to chew 
 morays use pharyngeal jaws 
to suck prey down, whole

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ambassador Clinton

Envoy to Haiti? 
 How are the mighty fallen! 
 Once, Bill helped himself

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2010-01-03

foreshadowing

Note the skinny kid 
on whom the camera lingers 
 he'll show up later

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no bell, book or candle

exorcize poems 
 that would take over your mind 
 capture them in ink

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transcendence

Exalted moments 
 the silence drowns out the noise 
 of house-keeping chores

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non-judgemental

John Yoo's less puzzling 
 when you know both his parents 
 are psychiatrists

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values

His parents are shrinks! 
 maybe in Yoo's lexicon 
 there's no "right" or "wrong"

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2010-01-02

neolithic revolution

When we learned to farm
populations exploded
health standards collapsed

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5th amendment

Bush's DoJ
messed up the prosecution
Blackwater thugs walked

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indelible III


president Clinton
couldn't keep it in his pants
how come stains adhere!

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indelible II

president Clinton
couldn't keep it in his pants
how come stains adhere?

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indelible

president Clinton
couldn't keep it in his pants
some stains won't come out

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gravity

Newton deceived us!
what he claimed was a constant
goes up each Christmas

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obvious

Is it really news?
Doctors checking Limbaugh's heart
found nothing at all

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the pain of what's not there

sometimes, amputees
suffer what's called "phantom pain"
like Rush Limbaugh's heart

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changes

stray tufts of bristles
sprout over my shoulder blades
just like in "The Fly"

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t'was a brave man

such strange, ugly rocks
wrinkled, cold, gray and mossy
conceal tasty flesh

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regression

Miwoks feasted on
oysters, venison and crab
agriculture sucks

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charming as Krishna

86-year old 
Andhra Pradesh governor 
 cavorts with gopis

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Chicxulub

Luis Alvarez
postulates an asteroid
killed the dinosaurs

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Alvarez

iridium specks 
correlate with extinctions 
 KT-boundary

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count on it

Some things you can trust 
 as sure as death and taxes 
 politicians lie

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hypothermia

pronounce no man dead
 until he is warm and dead
cold mammals fake it

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2010-01-01

opportunity cost

George W. Bush
disdained to lead the free world
he preferred crusade

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primal fear

Canned goods and ammo 
 surge when the stock market tanks 
 fear overcomes greed

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ambiguous

Bachelor Bruce Wayne 
 and his young ward Dick Grayson 
 keep Gotham guessing

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legacy

The last regime's crimes
 cripple our  justice system 
 like old scar tissue

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half a society

Women in burqas 
 impoverish society 
pent up like brood- mares

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dirty start

The last hangover 
 of the holiday season 
 darkens the new year

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