The official story

 Chairman Kim Il Sung
 defeated the Japanese
 singlehandedly

Immortal!

 Donald Rusk Currey
 achieved a moment of fame
 and prays we'll forget

pompous

Addressing your muse 
 in language you wouldn't speak 
 sterile exercise

supply-side

Meg Whitman's campaign 
 focuses on giveaways 
"race to the bottom"

changes

Autumn equinox
Orion sees the paper
thud on my curbstone

the container for the thing

Not roofs, nor windows 
 capture a house's essence 
 it's the space contained

New World

In the Triassic 
 Idaho and Nevada 
 basked on our West coast

protege

Perched on my hat brim 
 the aegis of a mantis 
guards me from the flies

Eddie Long

If there is Justice
there's a special place in Hell
for clergy who rape

labor

The Market kills farms 
 when Smith's 'invisible hand' 
 won't stoop to pick beans

greedy

sheriff Arpaio
 threw a lavish staff party
and charged the inmates

Render unto Caesar

 senator DeMint
 wants Christ to run the Senate
and resents taxes

self-interest

David and Charles Koch 
 dream of worlds without taxes 
 where wealth makes them kings

poor trade/trade poor

Poor landlocked nations 
 may not stand a fighting chance 
 the map condemns them

international aid

Invest with both hands 
 the alternatives to peace 
 cost more than dollars

worse than the disease

Arming the Saudis 
to patch our trade imbalance 
 pours fire on the oil

for everything there is a season

Tadpoles on dry land 
 know learning languages hurts 
 after puberty

abusive II

Bishop Eddie Long 
 showers his love on his flock 
 and on their children

abusive

Suffer the children 
 to draw close to bishop Long 
 he wants to love them

uplifted

One ripping thermal 
 plucks me from the haze and murk 
 intoxicating!

refuge of scoundrels

The flags get bigger 
 demagogues get kookier 
 as empires totter

authority

bishop Eddie Long
as "spiritual daddy"
loves his congregants

nutcase

Christine O'Donnell 
 sacrificed her maidenhead 
 on Satan's altar

broken

House speaker Gingrich 
hyperpolarized congress 
 it hasn't worked since

misguided II

Rahm's guiding tenet

 "looking forward and not back"

 neuters Obama

misguided

Rahm Emanuel 
 looking forward and not back 
 neuters Obama

used tea bags

Charles and David Koch 
 subsidize the Tea Party 
 those dupes are useful

duration

only at Funston
one can stay up for so long
sleep wins the contest

snap it

flare when you're at trim
rip the flow off your airfoil
step out of the sky

inefficacious

it takes five doctors
to diagnose whooping cough
but you pay each one

nero

Senator DeMint 
 enforced party discipline 
 as his party burned

perfect fit

The party of red 
 will love Christine O'Donnell 
 her life's built on debt

unfit

Like television 
video games make kids dull 
go outside and play!

nativists

the Iroquois knew
illegal immigration
they called it "White Man"

Sunni

Supinated palms 
 open to Allah's blessings 
 contain all we need

irrational exuberance

Losing stupid bets 

 was just part of the expense 

 of his coke habit

thicker than water?

Selective breeding 
 produced haemophiliacs 
 royal blood runs thin

...and also many cattle

The book of Jonah 
 argues that imperfections 
 can't disappoint God

deadbeat

Christine O'Donnell's
 long record of unpaid debts
 fits the Senate well

ex post facto II

The right brain decides 
 then the left back-fills in haste 
 what we call 'reasons'

ex post facto

First, right brain decides 
 then, left brain scurries behind 
 making up reasons

Russian roulette

It takes five doctors 
 to diagnose whooping cough 
 but you pay each one

complicit

US media 
 lie about Hugo Chavez 
 paving the coup's path

calculi

Paradoxically 
 dietary calcium 
 deters kidney stones

clown

Christine O'Donnell 
 cheapens the GOP brand 
 she can't do the job

manna

Christine O'Donnell 
saved delaware's Democrats 
 a dolt from the blue

kicked back

Torpid rattlesnakes 
 ignore squirrells ambling past 
 dreaming of summer

unfalsifiable

Like religious faith 
 supply-side economics 
 can't be killed by facts

good luck

Harvard faculty 
 work six years on their CVs 
 to bid for tenure

revelation

Miles davis transcribed
 music no one else could hear 
 private prophecy

fiscal responsibility

Christine O'Donnell's
long record of unpaid debts
fits the Senate well

cheater

Congressman Rangel 
 writes the tax code for us chumps 
 he knows it's a game

indolent

Too lazy to think 
 Americans trust pundits 
 to have their ideas

acting

On the casting couch 
 moaning with sincerity 
she proved she can act

parsimonious

Even by starlight 
 the skunk's bold coloration 
 conveys due warning

egoist II

pastor Terry Jones
 achieved a measure of fame
 more than he deserves

evil precedent

Alcibiades 
 led athens towards foreign wars 
 reckless as Dubya

mortification of the flesh

Fashion's perverse gods 
 lay a curse on devotees 
 "Morton's neuroma"

stalkers

Craving some fresh meat 
 cougars prowl at Chez Panisse
  as freshmen move in

egoist

Pastor Terry Jones 
 lives for the press coverage 
 truth is optional

deluded II

Pastor Terry Jones 
stokes his own bloated ego 
 but swears it's for God

Idolators

 British lawmakers 
 bow before Rupert Murdoch 
 He knows their secrets

can't take it with you

Two humble potshards 
 rest on the deceased's eyelids 
 scant fee for Charon

l'avdoni

Moses told Pharaoh 
 all lives are spent in service 
 but we choose our Lord

Sarajevo?

One noisy bigot 
 convulsed Gainesville Florida 
 we've fought wars for less

uurp

Earth's eructations
 flood the sky with SO2 
as the plates jostle

Freedom of the Dross

the age of FaceBook
 everyone's a publisher 
 fluff still drowns content

time traveller

behind those old eyes
there's a young buck peering out
at a transformed world

behind those eyes

Inside each codger 
 there's a young buck wondering 
 what the heck happened

snowcrash

Poignant as haiku 
 tattooed across his forehead:
POOR IMPULSE CONTROL

delusion II

pastor Terry Jones 
 serves only his warped ego 

 but calls it "Jesus"

delusion

pastor Terry Jones 
 serves his own bloated ego 
 but swears it's for God

less than a village

There are pros and cons 
 life's hard for a second son 
 raised by three parents

dubious precedent

Alcibiades 
 led athens towards foreign wars 
 reckless as Dubya

hypocrite

Pastor Terry Jones 
 stokes hatred and violence  
Whom would Jesus hate?

mortification of the flesh II

the gods of Fashion

 treat devotees with contempt

 Morton's neuroma

mortification of the flesh

Fashion's perverse gods 
 lay a curse on devotees 
 Morton's neuroma

stalking

Craving some fresh meat 
 cougars prowl at Chez Panisse 
 as freshmen move in

wheels within wheels...

Google's ambition 
 to mine knowledge from data 
 stops short of wisdom

Hearty praise

 bison-sized diners 
 lumber from this restaurant 
 i guess the food works

cynicism

While you're chasing dreams 
 make sure your spouse keeps a job 
 with health benefits

string theory

Popper drew a line
 what's not falsifiable
 can't be called science

crusader

pastor Terry Jones
stokes hatred and violence
 in the name of God

Tillman III

Pat Tillmans family 
 had no stomach for the lies 
 propaganda stinks

something in the air

Foregut fermenters 
 vent methane in their belches 
 not like kangaroos

Tillman II

Pat tillmans mother 
 delved through lies piled high on lies 
 looking for her son

stalker

Is this really news?  
cougars favor Chez Panisse 
 prowling for fresh meat

Diogenes

Pat Tillman's mother 
 sought one honorable man 
 to tell her the truth

falsifiable

Deuteronomy 
 promises a quid pro quo 
 contrary to fact

Tillman I

Danny Tillman found 
 it's turtles all the way down 
 lies are stacked on lies

empty

Incessant yakking 
 drowns out all but shallow thoughts 
consciousness withers

grain futures

A plague of locusts 
 threatens australia's outback 
 g'day for imports

opportunity

Canada's frontier 
 as the permafrost recedes 
 new farmlands beckon

insiders

Specialized humor 
 plays on shared experience 
 public encoding

you know

Vapid Verbal tics 
 interrupt the flow of speech 
 more than pauses would

relativism

Immersed in riches 
 we come to think they're common 
 What's a river worth?

cursed

Vast mineral wealth 
 distorts currency exchange 
 it's called "Dutch disease''

DIY

Satan's redundant 
 hell's just a place without love 
we can make our own

values

Lobbyists bring cash 
 no one wants a papertrail 
 in a bordello

outre

Spinoza's family 
 felt they had to cast him out 
 he scared the neighbors

words mean what I want them to mean

the Ninth Circuit Court
 found water is not litter
 judge Bybee dissents

ravenous

Endless foreign wars 
 can't sate our military 
 drinking seawater

"advisors"

While our troops come home 
 militarized contractors 
prop up our puppets

good boy!

dogs aren't stupid
 they domesticated us
 to build cozy hearths

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William Hamilton

made fitness more inclusive

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