brute

Dominique Strauss-Kahn 
 raped third-world economies 
 figuratively

groundworks, II

Hutton glimpsed Deep Time 
 ''no vestige of beginning 
 no prospect of end''

groundwork

Lyell and Hutton 
 gave Darwin a glimpe of Time 
 Malthus gave motives

inversion cap

Well-organized sink 
 downwind of the day's best lift 
 your thermal has bounced

noble truths

Prince Siddhartha saw
the old, the sick and the dead.
from them, he learned Truth

competent

Just who is Bob Gates?
I never meant to like him
but he's no Rumsfeld

vanity of vanities

Donald Trump's bald-spot
has a game show of its own
How Can You Top This?

in the long run...

whether by the sword
or the slow wearing of time
all flesh is mortal

wordplay II

Now, Obama claims:
"these are not hostilities"!
as daft as Cheney

word play

is Obama mad?
"these are not hostilities"
fails the giggle-test

diabolical

shattering the night
those infernal mockingbirds
mimic alarm clocks

eutrifaction

excess nutrients
in the Gulf of Mexico
Death comes in gift-wrap

progress

Kabul's first skate-park 
 empowering Afghan girls 
 threatens Taliban

greens

Creamed spinach side-dish 
 phenomenally ugly 
 but so a propos

evil smells, evil times

A whiff of sulfur 
 as if Cheney were nearby
or an egg went bad

Williams' Law II

Congressman Weiner 
 diverts his Party's blood-flow 
 from matters of State

Williams' Law

Congressman Weiner:
 when little head gets the blood 
 big head gets the ax

afterglow

the energy's spent
 no sun pumps the convection
 wind-socks hang flaccid

out of phase

Tiny spotted fawn 
 prancing after his mother 
 is it still April? 

left behind

Selective rapture 
 didn't take Camping's body 
 just his intellect

aboil

Frogs sing in the night 
 advertising their ardor 
 the pond steams with lust

incentive

Flightlessness evolves 
 whenever pressure relents 
birds need predators

competence

Just who is Bob Gates? 
 I never meant to like him 
 but he's no Rumsfeld

sleek like walrus

Fatty deposits 
 shroud the skull-shoulder juncture 
 American neck

re-edit!

Malick's "Tree of Life"
 as ambitious as "Zardoz" 
 but a lot less fun

when fraud kills

Wakefield's fallacy 
 post hoc ergo propter hoc 
 killed a lot of kids

go big!

Oxymoronic 
 a cuisine in denial 
 'healthy Hawaiin'

June pond II

Demented cellist 
 sawing one note all night long 
 bullfrog serenade

June pond

one note Endlessly 
 Yoko Ono on cello 
 bullfrog serenade

NIMBY

Let the French have nukes! 
 Germans will import power 
 and export the risk

hold the E. Coli

Organic beansprouts 
 killed at least thirty Germans 
 they call this 'Health Food'?

focus

"mortality" pah!
if you know you're gonna die
go for the glory

tick, tock

we're all gonna die
some of us will have lived first
some just punch the clock

flight plan

Scott just shakes his head
"you've got to go 'round and 'round"
or go fetch the truck

sideshow

a frothy mixture
arrogance and bigotry
fuels Santorum's bid

rigid

High Schools in China
value brute rote memory
not innovation

posturing

the talks seem futile
everybody wants to be
the aggrieved victim

ho hum

Congressman Weiner
grossly inappropriate
but not surprising

lanesplitter

one rule to live by 
when you're biking in traffic 
 you're invisible 

go outside and play

throw out your TV!
second-hand experience
 can't add up to life

vision

Now Dagan can speak 
 Israel's Daniel Ellsberg 
 warns of wars to come

barriers breached

Spanish cucumbers 
 can't be blamed for Hamburg's deaths 
 still, farmers suffer

do-nothing

Focussing on debt 
 the House cripples stimulus 
 for partisan gains

cave

Werner Herzog mused: 
 maybe we're the crocodiles 
 maybe he's the loon

tight race

A frothy mixture: 
 arrogance and bigotry 
 fuels Santorum's bid