2011-09-29

fill-flash

Bring back some shadows 
photographing in flat light 
you've erased her nose

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oxymoron

Well-done hanger steak 
 fit for neither man nor beast 
abomination 

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traditional recipe

Microcrystalline 
 Carbides between martensite 
sweet steel baklava

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equinox

By Rosh haShanah 
 Orion watches the news 
 thud on my curbstone

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anonymity

On the internet 
no one knows that you're a dog 
trolls, we can sniff out

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crafty

To corral herring 
 humpbacks and orcas weave nets 
 from strands of bubbles

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hooked

Chronic injuries 
 can't stop a true devotee 
 running 'for his health' 

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perfect

Defeating headlights
 As if cut from Night herself 
 Bears crossing the road

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2011-09-27

choice?

Vladomir Putin
tells his voters what to want
they point back at him

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rigged

Voters in Russia
Can choose anyone they want
From Putin's menu

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all things must end

Fourth came a pale horse
and who rode on it was Death
Hell followed after

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no, the other one

Second-string talent
Benjamin Netanyahu
the hero's brother

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faithfully executed

Under Obama
SEC prosecutions
rebound towards normal

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2011-09-26

hounded

Beyond sanity
Dismal children of the Night
Pursue Orestes

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back it up

What is past is clear
laid before us in broad light
the future's unlit

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leaderless

No one owns this race
Herman Cain took Florida
The field's wide open

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everything becomes clear

. . . youth in Michigan
didn't know I was depressed
it seemed so normal

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2011-09-20

motives

Eris and Eros
drive Homer's epic poems
sisters, born of Night

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not dead yet!

what of Laertes?
deposed from Ithaka's throne
he wasn't dead yet

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l'amour est tellement simple

love should be simple
satisfy her libido
entrust her with yours

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orphaned

the horse's belly
sheltered Neoptolemus
not his father's shield

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loco

"loco parentis"
might describe the Berkeley Club
colloquially

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creationism

folding Sikkar Point
in less than 6000 years
God is truly great!

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values III

Too old? Whatever!
suddenly, I realized,
there's more than just air

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values

"Conan, what is best?"
"to hear the lamentations
of those below you"

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priorities II

smoking pulled pork butt
connective tissue slowly melts
but when will I sleep?

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specialized

cooks in paradise
are of Gallic persuasion
in hell, they're British

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perfidious

Ashfaq Kayani 
 sent uncle Sam his regards 
 through the Haqqanis 

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solid man

cold-flowing alloy
 into the interstices
 nico swaged cables

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doomed

Barack Obama 
 The wrong side of history 
 Vetoing statehood 

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classy

No chase scene, no sex 
 Das Leben der Anderen 
 Just great cinema

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multiverse

the world of waking 
 Is our common property 
 Dreamers dream alone

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children

Long after we're grown 
 We carry our younger selves 
 Home for Thanksgiving

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these are not the 'droids you're looking for...

Parasitic worms 
 Lull their hosts' immune systems 
 Smarter than they look!

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imperial

Dick Cheney's project 
 an Executive amok 
unconstrained by Law

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socialization

Internet gossip 
 Anonymous and vicious 
 No one sees the blush 

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2011-09-16

rebound

Inexorably 
 Repressive societies 
 Make us all rebels

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still fighting the last war

Dread of inflation 
 Still drives German policy 
 Long after Weimar

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of North and South

Tropical storm 'Lee' 
 devastated the Northeast 
 waiting for 'Sherman'

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perfidy

Ashfaq Kayani 
 sent uncle Sam his regards 
 through the Haqqanis

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go with it

cold-flowing alloy
 into the interstices
nico swaged cables

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2011-09-14

reform with teeth

Enact Glass/Steagel 
 Then I'll believe we're healing 
 not a day before

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veiled

Thetis's wedding 
 Overshadowed by a brawl 
 Bride veiled in omens

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festive

A dab of Bearnaise 
 makes  A luxurious meal 
 from a mere grilled steak

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eye of the beholder

Life's a Rorschach test 
 If you're not getting enough 
 Everything is sex

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tempting

Running in flip-flops 
 Invitation to fracture 
 Fifth metatarsal

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rebound

inexorably
repressive societies
make us all rebels

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Eris

The uninvited
wedding gift for Peleus
made no one happy

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stylin'!

Charles crops his hair close
to accentuate the ears
bold architecture!

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2011-09-12

Williams' Law

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

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flavorants

Real free-range chickens 
 Eating flies and worms and weeds 
 Don't taste like tofu

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ardent

Sing, Muse of the wrath 
 that made Achilles burn fierce 
 for a little while

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live fast, die young...

Shining Achilles 
 bore no scars from boars or men 
 his corpse was perfect

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count no man happy...

Hewn down like an ox 
 Agamemnon died at home 
 Ingloriously

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exemplary

Bush learned from Stalin
 it isn't who votes that counts
 it's who counts the votes

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ersatz

put the carob down
 the taste of disappointment
can't make a brownie

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what is not forbidden...

Sparse fossil records 
 Grant imagination space 
 To construct monsters

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cuckold

Menelaos won 
 Helen's hand and Sparta's throne 
 but lost his good name

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fledging

Over-protective 
 Parents produce fragile kids 
 Emotionally

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manipulation

In each election 
 Cynical politicians 
 Wave the bloody shirt

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court me

David Axelrod
 figures my vote's in the bag
 I'll still vote for CHANGE

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empathy

 a nation widowed
 When JFK was murdered 
 We were all Jackie

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charade

BofA's new plan 
 Rearranging the deckchairs 
 On the Titanic

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sleep on it

One third of a life 
 Spent in bed, perchance to dream 
 Vegetative state

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Depressed

Enact Glass/Steagel 
 Then I'll believe we're healing 
 not a day before

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acting

on the casting couch
simulating ecstasy
tests an actor's craft

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2011-09-06

the view from beyond

Achilles, in death
 Looks back longingly at life
Wistful immortal

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the complete Man

Kleos and nostos
 Odysseus achieves both
 No one else gets it

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inconclusive

Petraeus' Surge
 Kicked the can down the same road
 Civil war still looms

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the fog of Life

Wisdom comes easy
 If you follow all the steps
 First, you have to die. . .

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time-sensitive

Accounts of his death
 'highly exagerated'
 According to Twain

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illogic

''nobody goes there''
 Yogi Berra was quoted
 ''it's much too crowded''

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Lincoln's ear

''Four score and seven''
 Why not ''ten squared less thirteen''?
 Subtle prosody

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planer

Abstract furniture
 scattered in the Sierras
 milled by a glacier

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endings

Sunrise's herald
 Orion high in the South
 announces Autumn

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Noah knew

Dawn's serenity
The fwap of one raven's wings
 The rest is silence

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give me strength

Distended bladder
 Struggles against beer pressure
 The restroom's nasty

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special

Every kid's special
 In the Benton School district
 Restricted gene pool

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haemmorhage

Burning Man traffic
 clogs the highways and hotsprings
 Right down to LA

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sheepish

Suddenly brake lights
 One oncoming CHP
 panics the whole herd

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up

Past the equator
 Orion looks much the same
 just more excited

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