the arc of history is long...

MLK's speeches 
Still disappointingly apt 
 As decades roll past

hegemon

Blackberry hedges 
 Bide their time innocently 
 They'll win in the end

don't blink

Iconic Rainier 
 Looms like a Hollywood set 
 When the sun comes out

symmetry

Versatility
for the jock who swings both ways 
 two-handed discus

materialism

so liberating
 Empty hands and empty mind 
 ''bags lost in transit''

narrative frame

Homer's wooden horse 
 Lurks coyly barely off-stage 
 Men hold his focus

satisfaction

Sexual contract 
 Each entrusting the other 
With satisfaction

short circuit

Rick Perry relies 
 On the folks he appointed 
 To fund his campaign

monotheism, step by step

Zeus swallowed Metis 
 Internalizing Wisdom 
 Gained maturity

iconic

William Howard Taft 
Posed astride his buffalo 
Double behemoth

hyper-partisan

As Cheney plays it
 Loyalty is to Party 
 Fuck America

dayenu

Nine parts of desire 
 Allah bestowed on women 
 One can drive men mad

72 suburbs

Dorothy Parker 
 Found Los Angeles empty 
 Not her kind of town

playing for time

Petraeus' surge
 deferred Iraq's civil war
 until we pull out

old tech

Brave new protein world!
built on RNA machines
still needs ribosomes

bad company

Hamas in a bind 
 Under the Assad aegis 
 Friend of the devil

personal aura

On Martha's Vinyard 
 Suddenly one's cellphone works 
 Obama's in town

Autonomous

 What's a cortex for? 
 Hummingbirds' matchhead-sized brains 
 Treat food, flight and sex

purists

Free-market purists
set the stage for Engels/Marx
race to the bottom

priorities

kill your TV set
life's too short for this bullshit
go outside and play

an eternity

cornered at dinner
should I care about Seinfeld?
l'enfer, c'est les autres

jealousy

stable flapping flight
trivial for mosquitoes
upsets engineers

propaganda

Fox's 24
an argument for torture
packaged as crime porn

optimized

autonomous flight
hummingbirds' match-head-sized brains
dwarf our computers

inexorable

Too busy to fly
frittering Summer away
suddenly, you're old

fates

Sex and her sisters
flirt with us each night in bed
one's called Sleep, one's Death

Williams' Law

big shit-eating grin
all blood-flow is diverted
to his genitals

unnatural

on days so stable
even the moon has to flap
only Andy soars

Texans

one Greenland ice-sheet
could bury two Texases
I'd settle for one

odds

distracted tourists
veered into Suburban's path
flying seems safer

talking down

Demogogues deride 
 Keynesian economics 
 But Hoover was wrong

duuh!

At the Tropopause 
 Icarus's wings folded 
 should have flown by night

solid man

Rick Perry's transcript 
 shows no evidence of wit 
 the Right Wing loves him

wild ride

Who's driving this bus? 
 Yemen skids towards anarchy 
 On the brink of hell

solid man

Rick Perry's transcript 
 Shows he's solid as a rock 
 Above the collar

legacy

Dubya's legacy 
 Bequeathed to a whole nation 
 His fourth bankruptcy

attentive

Wasted newspaper 
 Packed with trivialities 
 Cheney's still not dead

selection

Navy Seal Team Six 
 recruited from all the best 
 The team of old men

momentous

Obama can choose 
 The right side of History 
Two State Solution

dummy

Governor Perry 
 Flunked organic chemstry 
 He reacts to cash

punched ticket

Assad's time is up 
 When Syria's youth smell blood 
 Bullets won't stop them

downfall

Age-long, Gandalf fell 
 Ever hewing the balrog 
 far 'neath Khazad-dum

predatory

Rick Perry's Texas 
 Lures business from other states 
 Race to the bottom

exagerated

Montreal's premier 
 Chuckled at his own obit 
 He claims it's a hoax

added value

Used book store treasures 
 angry marginalia 
 reveal readers' minds

dependent variables

Supergene cassettes 
 Couple butterfly patterns 
 Into big alleles

plaques

Snarled proteins, snarled lives 
Remembers her own childhood 
 But not her children

Addington's agenda

Rocked back on his heels 
 Obama talks deficits 
 What we need are jobs

the man for the job

Apollo's darling 
 Vanquished Hektor but not Troy 
 That took a trickster

old accounts, new accounts

Hariri junior 
 Wants Assad's head on a pike 
 Syrians agree

thems that got, get

The rich get richer 
Cooperative binding 
 Like haemoglobin

not on his watch

Petraeus' surge
 deferred Iraq's civil war
 until we pull out

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pressing

Moonless night descends 
 While we're groping for firewood 
 Primal urgency

lizards

flying hypoxic 
 doesn't bother some pilots 
 Me. . .I have to think

narrow

Straight-edge musicians 
 Foreswearing both sex and drugs 
 Live on rock-n-roll

Adel

In the hinterlands 
 Folks have liberal ideas 
 Of what makes a 'town'

ulterior motive

Funny gravel road 
 Made of obsidian shards 
 Contractor sells tires

rogue cell

Chicago's time-zone 
 In the Alabama Hills 
 My phone has bad dreams

ouch

Insolent deerfly 
Takes my blood without asking 
 Bad phlebotomist

teaching

A good instructor 
 Makes clear what's of the essence 
 And what's notation

emptos haec habet

Gleam on the big screen 
A full mouth of porcelain 
 Cosmetic dentist

amped

Each new flying site 
 Comes with a certain frisson 
 jittery first-date

rooted

Impressive mustache! 
 Hairs rooted in his mid-brain 
 Twine into his beard

I can neither confirm nor deny...

Binary questions: 
 One click for 'yes', two for 'no' 
 Three 'it's badly phrased

no copy

18K broadcast: 
 Argle! Bargle! Morbel! Woosh! 
 Dude, breathe through your nose

locusts with hooves?

Around these mountains 
 Sheep infest alpine meadows 
 More 'lice' than 'locusts'

ballsy

Flying West from Wolf 
 Point your toes and suck it up 
 There are no bail-outs

keep it blue

Nitrogen-poor lake 
 The deep blue of poverty 
 Pretty. . .poor fishing

convict lake

Mixed rocks underfoot 
 two (or three?) orogenies 
 formed the Sierras

heavy

Jim Bridger's dragline 
 Transmutes shale to smoking slate 
\ Under its steel tread

Hooverians

Demogogues deride 
 Keynesian economics 
But Hoover was wrong

inverted

At the Tropopause 
 Icarus' wings melted 
 should have flown by night