selling short

released in July
the studio cast its vote
"The Kids are Alright"

familarity

swallowtails cavort
among the manzanita
mindless of the view

O Pobrecito!
such a terrible burden
to carry alone

scattered on the beach

who will resonate
with a Haiku from the soul?
I sing to the wind

donors

To coddle Wall Street 
our cheap money policy 
punishes savers

egos

Einstein missed Berlin 
 "puny demi-gods on stilts"
 Preside at Princeton

the tint and the taint

Toxic lead-based paint 
 Makes your walls and ceiling bright 
 And your children dim

learning

Use what you're learning 
 Don't fly through the same sink twice 
 While you're mapping lift

legacy

Trotsky's great-grandson 
 Still advocates armed struggle 
 new nail, old hammer

instead of culture

California's hordes 
 Isolated in their cars 
 Going nowhere fast

it's official!

Torture and wiretaps 
 our criminal enterprise 
 Wears state uniforms

but what does it mean?

Bohr Convinced the world: 
Quantum mechanics tells all! 
 Einstein dissented

all is relative

Lacking perspective 
 Who can deem a life normal 
 Seen from the inside?

Oscar Grant IV

Color me puzzled: 
 How was icing Oscar Grant 
 'involuntary'?

Oscar Grant III

The cuffs? Or the shot? 
 what was 'involuntary' 
 In Oscar Grant's death?

Oscar Grant II

Handcuffed and then shot 
 Oscar Grant's death lacked purpose 
 But not bad intent

Oscar Grant

BART's rent-a-cop force 
 Alienates the riders 
Shooting citizens

settling for second

Only Buchanan  
Did more harm to his country 
 Than George W.

nostalgia

Camp at the stream side 
 Drink and bathe without concern 
 Pre-Giardia

drug discovery

Arrogant assay
 Doesn't acknowledge genius 
 In ligand design

slow in lift, fast in sink

Some climbs feel like work 
 Pumping like Ken Muscio 
 In and out of lift

Popular Mechanics

Forty years ago 
 Plans for 'bamboo butterfly' 
 Democratized flight

Goldman Sachs' abacus

 crap Derivatives 
 Designed to underperform 
 Conflict of interest

boundary conditions

Scratching the rock face 
 'twixt scylla and charybdis .
Sweating for each inch

cheez wiz

The can of three lies 
It's not cheese, and it's not food...
 And cheese won't eat it

7/18/10

White caps on Tahoe 
 Scud Before a brisk south wind 
 We brought the wrong toys

hooved locusts

Fragile wild flowers 
 Survived frost and wind and storm 
 Deer call them 'salad'

top of the stack

High-aspect blade wings 
Skitter like frantic insects 
 So far below me

biome

Six scant miles of air 
 Bound only by gravity 
Circumscribe a world

mementi

Behind any launch 
 Disturbances in the soil 
Mark cat-holes golne by

location, location, location

Of all the campers 
 Only Clay read the stars right 
 He woke in the shade

pilot needs ride

Scarcely over launch  
I'm still stuck in scratching mode 
 Thumbing for my lift

count no man happy...III

Theoden succumbed 
smitten by his falling horse 
 And fell Gravity

count no man happy...II

SuccorIng Gondor 
 Theoden kept his blood oaths 
he died a good death

count no man happy...

Modest to a fault 
lesser son of greater sires 
 Theoden died well

hollow charade

Elena Kagan 
 sweetly demurred to answer 
 hypotheticals

Leviathan Melvillii

Foot long Incisors 
 Andean leviathan 
 used to eat great whales

Nasty, brutish and short

Somali war lords 
 Can't reign in the hell they've made 
 Damned with their victims

Quisling

Ramzan Kadirov 
 Polishes Putin's Jackboots 
 With the Chechen Flag

Skin flick

 Perfect complexions 
Can't cover wooden acting 
 In twilight eclipse

Black parade

new generations 
 Of military widows 
 March endlessly past

way out

Lightyears above us 
The stars watch from long ago 
 Our petty dramas

dual use

Howling coyotes 
 Call the pack to assemble 
sharing our campsite

transported

Spurning gravity 
Electric-blue damselflies 
copulate in flight