boundary condition

There's always that worm 
 twined around Yggdrasil's roots 
 our mortality

inured

Bombings in Iraq 
 famine in Somalia 
 some news isn't news

Murdoch most foul VI

 He knew what? And when? 
 news corps faces inquiry 
 cry 'Murdoch most foul!'

Night

in Norway's long night
Darkness belongs to the Trolls
people pray for Spring

priceless!

Patrick Fitzgerald
bagged a fucking golden prize
Rod Blagojevich

creative accounting

Congress has declared
only five wars on the books
the rest were freebies

presidential powers

Harold Koh recants
where he stands on an issue
turns on where he sits

evidence-based

The Church was outraged!
Lyell, Hutton and Playfair
shook Earth's foundations

Appalachian trail

from Georgia to Maine
the iconic white blazes
keep hikers on track

body and soul

Abraham Heschel
felt that his legs were praying
marching to Selma

time lapse

MacBeth sympathized
Birnham wood had marched on him
like Ents on Orthanc

defiant

capping Bernal Heights
radiolarian chert
defies erosion

materialism

Funston pilots vie
for the grooviest new toys
like, whatever man

dawn patrol

grazing the campsite
deer amble between our tarps
no grass goes wasted

characterogenic

temperance is hard!
"more" is always the answer
for Americans

monumental

Finishing dim sum 
 a cairn of chicken toe-bones 
 bears silent witness

expiration date

Once past breeding age 
 why would you expect good knees? 
Darwin doesn't care

Aspire!

For party faithful 
 Mao listed the 'three good things' 
 tell them what to dream

foot on the throttle

Damming the Mekong 
 China threatens her neighbors 
 seige on a vast scale

adrift

Ever towards the Right 
 Obama's compromises 
 betray his mandate

de necessitate...

Proselytizing 
 seemed a fine thing to most Jews 
 before Constantine

uncommon ground

One's sense of humor 
 seems the most obvious thing 
 except to others

individuation

Each generation 
 finds their parents' humor lame 
 since the beginning

too much

Monster IPAs 
 homicidally hoppy 
 play poorly with food

igNobel

To disrupt hiccups 
stimulate the vagus nerve 
 You'll think of something

gastronomy

ersatz Caviar 
 calcium alginate beads 
 burst on the palate

polytheist

Mitt Romney has faith 
 there's a planet of his own 
to rule as a god

Bastille Day

Embrace our brothers! 
 who backed us against tyrants 
 Au quatorze Juillet

crapshoot

Mendel knew the game
mixing and matching alleles
aleatory

something new

Every human soul 
 unique in the universe 
 just like all the rest 

chickenshit

McConnellMust know 
 some things, you cant delegate 
 see: 'Schechter Poultry

Murdoch most foul V

Rupert Murdoch's press 
 perverts the course of justice 
 unconscionable

noxious miasma

Down-wind of LA 
 Pasedena breathes the filth 
 of our pop culture

recall

Chrysler's new ball-joint 
looked like a cost-saving coup 
 'til the wheels fell off

indeterminacy

Murdoch's media 
 tilt the news they're reporting 
 like Heisenberg's cat

the next revolution

Beijing hoards dollars 
 while her cities pile up debts 
 sharpen your pitchforks

harsh masters

Parasites drive us 
 to stay in the Red Queen's Race 
 we're driven to sex

Murdoch most foul IV

The News Of The World 
 makes more news than it reports 
 over-sized ego

Murdoch most foul III

Murdoch's news organ 
 as bloated as his ego 
 mostly makes trouble

end of an era

The last shuttle launch 
thundered off Cape Kennedy 
 then there was silence 

Murdoch most foul II

Rupert Murdoch's clout 
 extending beyond the grave 
corrupts great and small

Murdoch most foul

Murdoch's corrupt touch 
 taints the high and low alike 
 bile can't print the truth

mirror of the mind

More often than not 
 sloppy habits of language 
 betray sloppy thought