2011-10-29

skip it

"Birth of a Nation"
on everyone's must-watch list
interminable

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braised

"sweeter near the bone"
spares the cook having to spell
"periosteum"

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forever young

generation one
barefoot in his cutoff jeans
Bamboo Butterfly

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codger

swaths of silver fur
growing in along my flanks
mark my new status

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Parry/Lord

Oral transmission
Homers catalogue of ships
all Mycenaean

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the garb, and the substance

Stephenson's novels
masquerade as adventures
goyische aggadah

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Zanesville

on Ohio's veldt
lions devour dogs and deer
don't give peas a chance

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Iliad, book III

pointed reparte
Helen and Aphrodite
can't both be queen bitch

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disenfranchised

David Axelrod
presumes my vote's in the bag
he can fuck himself

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gag me

disjointed hodge-podge
can't amount to a lecture
just a data-dump

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signposts for the seasons

slouching towards mid-span
sunset in the Golden Gate
Halloween at Scott's

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vigilante

Misurata's mob
gleefully beat Kaddafi
'til the coward died

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now you see the violence inherent in the system!

night raid in Oakland
peaceful protesters wounded
cossacks shun the light

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hitched

harness libido
wed it to the big project
"civilization"

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fulsome

Fuller's worshippers
risk burying his brilliance
under their manure

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legacy

some leave progeny
others' immortality
rests on their ideas

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dark vision

Frank Lloyd Wright's ego
overshadowed his buildings
perpetual gloom

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error!

once deposited
our money just vanishes
like a SouthPark skit

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moving art

Wright's "falling waters"
languidly sliding downstream
kinaesthetic art

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Klytemnestra

she got her deserts
marrying Agamemnon
had to end badly

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hard-eyed

Fell Klytemnestra
Helen's dowdier sister
put no faith in love

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Scott Olsen II

Oakland's police force
shot another citizen
blues are gang colors

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inside man

Timothy
despite the fancy title
still works for the Fed

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pain is fungible

Look for bonds to rise
China's buying up Greek debt
rather than dollars

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imitatio

 A poet's power
to conjure life out of ink
God? Or Frankenstein?

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uneasy lies the head

Al-Assad's terror
Can he dodge Kaddafi's fate?
Riding the tiger

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autoimmune

Intimate traitors
the unkindest cut of all
feral leukocytes

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Yama

Durga looks dumbstruck
thinking herself pretty tough
she met Death himself

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al-Awlaki

Summary judgement
an Executive amok
Dick 's wet-dream

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conjurer

A poet's power
to conjure life with just ink
out-does Frankenstein

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Scott Olsen

Oakland's police force
terrorizes the city
starched blue gang colors

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freak

pig-headed student
hell-bent on wresting control
of his own lesson

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2011-10-27

stand up

be the change we need
 occupy your own city
speak truth to power

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freedom of assembly

Night-raid in  
Peaceful protesters detained 
 Cossacks shun the light

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of the People, by the Corporations

Corrupt government 
 deafened by the big donors 
 can't hear little guys

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negligence

Cheney's SEC 
 non-enforcement policy 
 let the rot fester

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unkindest cut

Dearest betrayals 
 autoimmune diseases 
 feral leukocytes

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jolt II

Berkeley' stadium
rocks to the beat of a drum
two miles underground

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jolt

just blowing off steam
rather than rocking our world
the Hayward Fault creeps

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falling down IV

his "Falling Waters"
in spite of the architect
never did fall short

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falling down III

Wright's "Falling Waters"
may fall down to the river
not from importance

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falling down II

love or hate the man
He changed architecture's face
but the roof does leak

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falling down

Wright's "Falling Waters"
an attempt at true greatness
a house that moves you

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2011-10-24

our martyr

At Harper's Ferry 
 John Brown sparked our Civil War 
 Blessed is the match

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silenced

Crowds are energized 
 flocking to see Qadhafi 
 Now that he shut up

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keen edge

Crescent moon dwindling 
like an old man's favorite knife 
 sharpened many times

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who's in?

The revolving door 
 gives power to lobbyists
 this time, Herman Cain

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2011-10-22

fucked

while our troops pull out
military contractors
keep pounding away

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Monet's ponds

layers of meaning
under the blandest haiku
most of them are sex

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2011-10-18

first, you have to get their attention

bid for attention
on the Tibetan Plateau
self-immolation

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"not of this world"

Even in this world 
 'Generation Joshua' 
works for dominion 

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Intellectual Property

Samsung's smart tablet 
 Ripped off Apple's look and feel 
 IP piracy 

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obstruction

's generals 
 Reneging on promises 
 Stalled  

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for the good of the community

Bibi's brother died 
 rather than offer ransom 
 He had principles

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thinking big

Freeman Dyson's mind 
 Encompasses galaxies 
 One world's not enough

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baseline

Bruce Ames chastened us 
 our world never was benign 
 we evolved with threats

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cycling

Fungi in the soil 
 Send last year's cellulose back 
 to the atmosphere

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is it I, Lord?

Keep some perspective 
 You aren't stuck in traffic 
You are the traffic

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Executive power-grab

Even 's 
 Extrajudicial slaying 
 Evil precedent

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unpatriotic

to spite Obama
Republican strategists
 prolong recession

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less

Haiku surround us 
 it takes an editor's eye 
 to flense off the flab

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an idea whose time has come

wooden Indians
 bide in every dying tree
 'til sculptors free them

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old and in the way

Bishop Robert Finn 
 found a use for his miter 
 Obstructing Justice 

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before there was RAM

Unspooling HOX genes 
 tick off our development 
 like streaming mag. tape

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ordered

Vivisecting verse 
 computational Lit. Crit.
 quantifies patterns

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wordplay

Layers of meanings 
 interlace a haiku's words 
factorially

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traditional values

British Madrassas 
 Inculcating bad values 
 Shelter pederasts 

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2011-10-14

At Buck's treasure hunt
Elsie's finds are rewarded
hiding in plain sight

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undignified

men fought for Helen
anointing the Earth with blood
like a bitch in heat

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a citizen's duty

Civil Liberties
require ceaseless vigilance
impeach Obama

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October

redtails bump wingtips
circling over my garden
I guess it's courtship

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10/10/10

way before Lenin
SunYatSen's revolution
launched the century

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al-Awlaki

where's the "rule of law"?
summary execution
punctures the charade

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ugly ambition

J. Edgar Hoover
built his personal empire
on a nation's fears

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tip of the iceberg

among known mammals
four out of five genera
have become extinct

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ugly ambition

J. Edgar Hoover
built his personal empire
on a nation's fears

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tip of the iceberg

among known mammals
four out of five genera
have become extinct

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the thing, and the name of the thing

Keith Richards explained
he has no problem with drugs
just with enforcement

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for your eyes only

my iPhone reveals
my new texts on its lock-screen
Elsie has questions

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Gilad

over the Arabs
Bibi values one Jew's son
a thousand to one

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keep it simple

eat in the sukkah
reconnect with simple joys
under the full moon

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uh oh

in his first debate
Dan Quayle met the better man
"deer in the headlights"

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can't get no satisfaction

there's always something
challenging our happiness
the beast of Eden

bovine

slack-jawed mouth-breathers
gaze at the blackboard like cows
this quiz isn't grass

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the great pox

Clovis Horizon
we were the catastrophe
that blitzed the New World

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Clovis horizon

ten millenia
before Columbus got here
wilderness was gone

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the rap

Richard M. Nixon
got us out of Vietnam
remembered for crimes

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aspirational

Barack Obama
still wants to earn that Peace Prize
Bibi's not helping

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"not of this world"

even in this world
"Generation Joshua"
works for dominion

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there be monsters

soft-bodied molluscs
let imaginations soar
they leave no fossils

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busted

Samsung's smart tablet
ripped off Apple's look and feel
IP piracy

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priority

before Columbus
Clovis-era explorers
colonized a world

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kraken III

vast cephalopod
arranging sea-lizards' bones

cryptic selfportrait

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kraken II

vast cephalopod
ichthyosaur bone collage
cryptic selfportrait

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kraken

vast cephalopod
arranging dinosaur bones
left a self-portrait

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2011-10-12

10/10/10

Way before Lenin 
 SunYatSen's revolution 
 Launched the century

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in our own lifetimes II

New Gonnorheas 
 resistant to everything 
 smirk at miracles

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in our own lifetime

New Gonnorheas 
 resistant to everything 
 Darwin never sleeps 

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government by wolves

for nations of sheep
 extra-judicial killings
 scarcely raise a bleat

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first, ya gotta get their attention

Waving a sextoy 
 Palikot aroused the crowd 
 Polish politics

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agents of change

Clovis horizon 
 the New World's megafauna 
 gone like the dodo

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2011-10-10

free?


 romance is a ploy
 by which our genes replicate
 where's "free will" in that?

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2011-10-09

somehow familiar

Each Summer's shorter 
In the face that I'm shaving 
my father's eyes gleam

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2011-10-07

tick, tock

a flood of ons   
embrittles the core's steel can 
planned obsolescence





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national self-determination II

Free Pashtunistan! 
 Even they deserve the Right 
to rule their own Hell

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pick-me-up

The nation seems glum 
let's hang some war-profiteers 
 it's good for morale

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national self-determination

There are no Afghans 
Pashtuns, Uzbeks, Hazaras. . . 
each deserve freedom

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extra-judicial slayings II

Evil precedent 
extra-judicial slayings
  Obama!



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Founder effect

Remembering Steve 
as Apple's stock value slips 
what's in the pipeline?

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twiggy

Gay couturiers 
require women to look like 
adolescent boys

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unredeemable

Indelible blot 
on Obama's character 
al-Awlaki's death

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trade-off

Magic back-up drive 
 Infinite capacity! 
 Write-only, alas

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above the law

Prosecute torture? 
 Obama fears reprisals 
protection racket 

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extra-judicial slayings

Civil liberties 
require ceaseless vigilance
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like a rock!

Rick Perry's the man 
to press Wall Street's agenda 
it's a no-brainer

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2011-10-05

agents of chaos

fey Tyndareus
loosed his daughters on the Greeks,
his sons on the sky

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provisionally

rabbenu Gershom
ruled against polygamy
for a thousand years

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uninitiated

boyscouts in Utah
can't tell vodka from bourbon
straight as a bowstring

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cops of the World

where's the battlefield?
our drones prowl the whole planet
pariah nation

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not so tough

swarms of neutrinos
embrittle the core's steel can
planned obsolescence

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dim prospects

unemployed Danes sigh
"the sun doesn't shine on us
but--here--that's normal"

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unforseen

Cheney's agenda
an Executive amok
in Obama's hands

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grim reaper

across the Southland
William Tecumseh Sherman
mowed down men like hay

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glib

watch that silver tongue!
the Devil can cite scripture
to get elected

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gambling

sooner or later
Somali seize Israelis
Xarardeere's razed

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transparent

Kayani's lying
he does it predictably
each time his lips move

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bereaved

Thetis consoled him:
"even sex with a woman
gets one through the night"

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kid stuff

deluded yuppies!
your tequila/lime slushies
ain't margaritas

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2011-10-02

solipcism

Haiku on haiku 
 gazing inwards at one's source 
self-referential 

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much nothing

Gridlock and shutdown 
 define Gingrich's record 
thin stuff to run on!

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neater than truth

Time blurs the details 
 recalling the memorate 
 not the thing recalled

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within you, without you

In Plato's account 
 Socrates was like a god: 
short, ugly, sunburnt

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"diplomacy"

In Islamabad's 
culture of duplicity 
 lying's de rigeur

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plastic

Movies were better 
 In an age before Botox 
Faces used to move

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blank

Rick Perry's perfect! 
 Tall as Alcibiades 
 Dumb as W.

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low expectations

Shackleton's biscuits 
 cached for his doomed adventure 
still as good as new

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whose money?

Geithner's class bias 
 Recapitalizing banks 
 Precludes growing jobs

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topper

Just past equinox 
 Sunrise clips Diablo's peak 
 Maraschino stunt

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Kol Nidre

 Fallible humans 
born to this imperfect world 
swear no binding oaths

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upstanding!

Admiral Mullen 
 Called Kayani on his lies 
We'll miss his candor 

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violated-III

Due process of law 
 doesn't dispatch drones to kill 
our own citizens

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conspiratorial

Dog-whistle hash-marks 
let tweeters communicate 
almost in private 

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violated-II

 be damned! 
 -Awlaki got no rites 
when the drone whacked him

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ch-ch-ch-changes

Doors keep opening 
 Until you turn twenty-one 
 Then the walls close in

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violated

Due process of law 
 For Anwar al-Awlaki 
 Who's even asking? 

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expiration dated

Shackleton's biscuits 
 Cached for his doomed adventure 
 No worse for the wear

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