clownish

lose the comb-over
 Trump's hair deserves to be free
 straight out like Bozo's

insecurity

Prince William's bald-spot
 doesn't bother a real man
Donald still hides his

family dynamic

Hector scolds Paris 
 vain lazy womanizing 
 should have stuck with flocks

xenia

Taking his woman 
 Paris had outraged his host 
 who could defend that?

so lonely

Donald Trump's best friends 
 lie serenely to his face 
 about his hairdo

go with it

Ancient circuitry 
 takes you where you've aimed your gaze 
 let 'the lizard' drive

clearance

Not just Mubarak 
 all his cronies share the guilt 
 everything must go

classy!

Charles and Gorilla 
 edited William's guest list 
 Cherie just won't do

intolerable

Targeting doctors 
 Bahrain takes a monstrous turn 
 this King's gotta in

auspicious

Scorpio sprang up 
 just before the rising sun 
 new flying season

balance

Slack off the VG 
 shift the center-of-lift aft 
 re-rig for climbing

silenced

Secretary Chu 
 called coal 'an abomination' 
 before he was gagged

cherry condition

hot-rod dinosaur
every feather in its place
archaeopteryx

abstract nouns

What is consciousness? 
 out of action potentials 
 mind is what brain does

modernist

Who's a combatant? 
William Tecumsah Sherman 
spared no sign of life

tough

Phoenix's golf clubs 
 boast some tough-looking players 
 jerky on the hoof

absolution

The high priest's smichah
 launched the scape goat's short career 
 off the precipice

perfect

Strong forms of AI 
 get philosophers worked up 
 screw utility

sun

Ugly plaid golf shorts 
 don't protect Arizonans 
 wizened like jerky

hall of mirrors

What is consciousness? 
A mind studying itself 
mired in reflections

diversity

The data are in 
 no universal grammar 
 unifies language

twisted

'Department of War' 
 through the lens of George Orwell 
 became 'D.o.D.'

auto-dazzled

Egoist scholars 
 dazzled by their reflections 
 can't see what's outside

Orange John II

On Saint Patrick's Day 
 speaker Boehner risks a fight 
 he's an orange man

Orange John

House Speaker Boehner 
 can't count on the Irish vote 
 he's an orange man

cogito?

What is consciousness? 
out of action potentials 
 mind is what brain does

haunted

Post-traumatic stress 
 running from one's own shadow 
 doomed like Sisyphus

responsible

Humans with free will 
 brought evil into the world 
 every choice is fraught

biomechanics

Roadrunners, not storks 
 model T. Rex's posture 
 in the sprinter's crouch

friendless

Dyslexics worry 
 in the dark night of despair 
 maybe there's no Dog

asymmetry

Just among women 
 unrepentant sexism 
 stayed respectable

one used PM, cheap

Ahmad Chalabi 
 wants to run your uprising 
this rebel for hire

sesquicentenniel

We must not forget 
 the first shots at Fort Sumter 
 no war is civil

military advisors

Sixteen thousand men 
 in our Baghdad embassy 
 whom are we kidding?

cold shock

The look of surprise 
 still lingers on the trout's face 
 on his bed of ice

Pasiphae

Minos' downfall
high-maintenance trophy wife
insatiable

characterogenic

Boromir the bold
lacked his brother's intellect
he got the war-genes

theodicy

for monotheists
Evil is a big problem
if their god is good

periodic function

Past the equinox 
 hems grow short as days grow long 
 sinusoidally

smile!

Qaddafi's backers 
 sing his praises fervently 
 if not, they get shot

rally

Colonel Qaddafi 
 the unifying figure 
 everyone hates him

mystery meat

Textureless pink sludge 
 reclaimed from the butcher's saw 
 gets sold as 'ground beef'

playing for time

Petraeus' Surge 
 bought a cease-fire, not a peace 
 civil war pending

boondoggle

Externalities 
 foist risk onto the public 
 for private profits

centric

Don't start raising kids 
 until you're ready to stop 
 being one yourself

emergent

In the Game of Life  
Gliders glide and Eaters eat 
 but nobody's home

the specific

Confessional verse 
 inflates the poet's ego 
 like we give a damn

dayenu

seven syllables
 pinned between two lines of five
 can evoke whole worlds

zombie politics

Cheney just won't die
 without even a heartbeat
 Evil prowls the World

Evil prowls the Earth

Cheney just won't die
 without even a heartbeat
Zombie politics