2011-12-30

parade of fools


 evolves 
 out-polls  
 there is no leader

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pent

The walls of our fears 
 can't bear a sheltering roof 
 they just pen us in

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Fraunhofer


red-shifted spectra
 tally elements present
 bar-codes on the stars

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weepy

The Spielberg WarHorse 
 more music than theater 
 symphony on film

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epic


Sing! Muse, of the wrath
 of Patrokles' boyfriend
 immortal, in death

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2011-12-28

arble bargle morble woosh!

he's slurring like Scott
at seventeen thousand feet
check his blood sugar

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closing shot

the camera lingers
on the squirrel's cellphone hoard
as the truck drives off

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by the clock

Iraq's renewed war
boringly predictable
Cassandra-fatigue

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plowman

fertile destruction
disruptive technologies
Shiva keeps dancing

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hysteria

Reason and Logic
instruments of oppression
towards Sandra Harding

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tranquil vista

Winter inversion
buries San Jose in mists
Ed Levin's pretty!

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gyroscopes

GravityProbe-B
exquisitely sensitive
worth every billion

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new broom

rich men in Congress
don't represent the People
give them their pensions

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consequences

a glut of lobsters
our reports in the Deep
say the cod is gone

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diamond age II


the Stones' fiftieth
anniversay on tour
bring your grandparents

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Diamond age

the Stones' fiftieth
anniversay on tour
bring the grandchildren

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tempi

Dawkins proposes
"rapid gradualism"
to dispense with jerks

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beam me up!

accessing the Cloud
uploaded on a thermal
nebulous image

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uppity

Tower of Babel
made a name for its  builders
a thumb in God's eye

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cripple work

a forest of steel
bear the Bay Bridge's east-span
temporarily

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2011-12-27

out of line

police-chief Stamper
repents using pepper-spray
on Seattle's youth

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2011-12-26

closing bell III

Putin's time is past 
 refreshing winds sweep Moscow 
 Gorbachev's spirit 

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closing bell II

Gorbachev's spirit
sweeps like fresh air through Moscow
 Putin's time is past

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he's back!

Mischa  
 most distinguished dissident 
 in a year of Change

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closing bell

Vladimir  
 didn't see the Arab Spring 
 meant his own time's up

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Keller

Food pornography 
 oddly sterile Christmas gift 
 no one cooks like this

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...endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights...


Holder's DoJ 
can alienate your Rights 
 You'll be disappeared

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monstrous


Claiming the power 
to disappear citizens 
 runs amok

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plowman


Fertile destruction 
 disruptive technologies 
 Shiva keeps dancing

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ooh! shiny!

Newt has no deep thoughts
 a magpie for bright ideas
stacked haphazardly

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a guide for the perplexed

Thought-experiments 
 guided Einstein on dark seas 
 stranger than Newton's

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2011-12-24

monsters from the Id


Jungian archetypes 
 lurk behind epic poems 
 and your bed curtains

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Art


Talk about cooking 
 dance about architecture 
all is vanity

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apex predator III


Holiday season 
 fattens the French on foie gras 
for the trolls' table

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apex predator II


Holiday season 
 fattens the French on foie gras 
Great Circle of Life

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apex predator

Holiday season 
 fattens the French on foie gras 
 for gourmand ogres

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type-cast?

Repeating motif 
Fassbender's big year in film 
 all comes back to sex

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Christmas Carol

Putin's time is past 
 refreshing winds sweep Moscow 
 Gorbachev's spirit

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afflicting the comfortable

Message of Christmas: 
 Gorbachev speaks in Moscow 
Putin's time is past

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2011-12-22

indefinite

Defunct republic 
military detention 
 voids your civil rights

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narcissist

 guards his freedom 
 a parade of mistresses 
 take the place of friends

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looking down

Perverse real estate 
 rewards the ethically blind 
 with the grandest views

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fading

digital era
silver-based photography
extinct medium

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monochrome

False economy 
 Sodium yellow street lamps 
 All cars look the same

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party season

Winter in Norway 
 trolls contest the right-of-way 
 on the Bridge through Night

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vapid

Have something to say? 
or do you just feel that you 
 have to say something?

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mostly empty


Particle? Or wave? 
 a fly in a cathedral 
 leaves room to ponder

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heroic fiction


Official story: 
 Kim Il Song destroyed Japan 
 single-handedly

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moral midget


Kim Jong Il's stature 
 puffed up by his pangyrists 
hovers at five feet

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never mind the moths

Keasling's E. Coli 
 makes their own cellulases 
 he could lose his shirt

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never mind


Disinhibited 
 a mantis without his head 
gets down to business

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nacht reise

At each dream-crossing 
 Trolls contest the right-of-way 
 on your night journey

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grudging

Bleary orange sun 
 pries back dawn's gummy eyelid 
 Winter morning fog

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noise

Sex can't fill the void 
 where relationships should be 
 the raves get lonely

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Amish scandal


Scandalous Mullets 
 facing criminal charges 
 haircuts gone too far

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due


Al-Assad's rearguard 
 united only by fear 
 can't hold back the tide

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a dog's death

Colonel Kadhafi 
 earned his death at the mob's hands 
 many times over

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host's prerogative

last sliver of moon
 too scant to serve to a guest
 gobbled for breakfast

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2011-12-16

prurient

Defining issue 
 of Rick 's campaign: 
 bestiality

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big shot


Ten thousand dollars 
 pocket-change for Mitt  
 he's so out of touch

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lawyerly


 testifies 
 he cannot recall a crime 
 sounding like Nixon

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notorious

paparazzi haunt
Eddie Long's sabbatical
lift his luggage?

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ethically challenged

Influence peddler 
 the ultimate insider 
Speaker of the House

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words mean what I want them to mean

Influence peddler 
 denies he's a lobbyist 
 Speaker of the House

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amphibious


Newt has repented
 sloughing his sins like old gills
 metamorphosis

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a rose is a rose is a rose...


once called "Blackwater"
 mercenaries zig and zag
 now "ACADEMI"

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clarity

For Clarence Thomas 
 doubt never enters his mind 
 that door's firmly shut

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for better or for worse


Newlyweds have: love 
 fifteenth anniversary: 
 big metal chicken

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lease-only

 gets around 
first two wives got sick of him 
the third's not sick. . .yet

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large-minded


House Speaker  
 believes everything he says 
 temporarily

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infidel


House Speaker  
 rolls the wedding tape again 
 low-fidelity

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hard to get

Turks' ardor has cooled 
 the EU's yesterday's news 
now, China looks hot

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budget games

Dancing on the brink 
 holding taxpayers hostage 
 ''Washington chicken''

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cui bono?


The System works fine 
 for Corporate Media 
 not for The People

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2011-12-14

one by one

Wilfred Owen's verse
transported the Akedah
in trenches, with mud

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2011-12-11

honking

the wind compresses
against Stinson's fancy homes
inverse gradient

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bonds

Darwin's bitter joke
to perpetuate our genes
we believe in Love

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synaesthesia

melbourne, Australia
an eight meter Theremin
sings with the dancers

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bloated


Gingrich's ego
barely fit on AirForce One
narcissistic brat

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reflexive

Putin blames Clinton
for protesters in Russia
he needs a mirror

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reprisal

Eileen Foster charged
CountryWide with widespread fraud
BofA fired her

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brat

Sununu's verdict
trying to work with the man
Newt is not stable

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wingnut welfare

out of the campaign
Herman Cain signs on with Fox
back to the bullpen

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new man

Newt Gingrich repents
hounding Bill while chasing tail
upstanding Christian

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bad boy II

tantrums and gridlock
those who know him best agree
Newt is not stable

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bad boy

Tantrums and gridlock
the GOP's loose cannon
Newt is not stable

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narcissus

the Tea Party's fling
promises years of heart ache
Newt loves only Newt

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its petty pace

iron turns to rust
muscles and dreams fade to flab
it's all metaphor

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fickle

Dick Armey's rival
seducing his Tea Party
Gingrich gets around

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dude, get a mirror II

blind to his own role
Putin would blame Hillary
 for Russians' unrest

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dude, get a mirror

taking no credit
Putin would blame Hillary
for Russians' unrest

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vaguely bluish veins
branch and twine on her pink thigh
a marbled statue

hegemon

the new colossus
German bankers hold the reins
bestriding Europe

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priorities

defining issue
of Rick Santorum's campaign:
bestiality

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forsaken

hard to reconcile
winters in North Dakota
with a loving God

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one percent

ten thousand dollars
Romney's pocket-change wager
he's so out of touch

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2011-12-08

solvent


Three coinage metals 
 until it crysalizes 
 dissolve in fused quartz

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the humanity

Keep cameras rolling 
 don't miss the reaction shot 
 theater's in the eyes

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nice trick!


Darwin's illusion 
to perpetuate our genes 
 we believe in Love

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carbonia


Sufficient pressure 
 tetrahedral CO2 
 as brittle as quartz?

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bright idea


Shake an electron 
 depending on just how hard 
 a photon falls out

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we're baaack


With apologies 
 for SETI's interruption 
 Hat Creek's back online

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crumple Zone


There wasn't much left 
after the airbags deployed 
steel origami

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Please, sir!


Gingrich turns backwards 
 Dickensian policy 
 give mops to children 

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contagion

Italy's troubles 
 won't be contained easily 
 too big to bail out 

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fat fads

Palm-oil plantations 
 tanked on cholesterol fears 
 rebound on trans-fats

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stagnant


Mere austerity 
 won't revive economies 
someone has to spend

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hugging and mugging

Candidates jostle 
who will get the Mark of Cain? 
 tainted endorsement

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long time coming

Rod Blagojevich 
 pleads for mercy from the court 
 it's ''fucking golden''

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intellectual deficit


Gingrich bloviates 
 he'd ''replace'' Bashar Assad 
 put it on his tab

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in his own words


Syria's regime 
''led by a crazy person'' 
kills its own people

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amok

America's choice: 
 imperial ambitions 
 trample human rights

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John Brown

Terrorists? Prophets? 
 the raid on Harper's Ferry 
 galvanized action

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2011-12-05

flipper de flopper

Positions evolve 
 or, in the case of  
mutate randomly

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seige

A first stream of ants 
 probes my doorframe for weakpoints 
 heralds of Winter

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underwriters

's generals 
 still get paid from Washington 
tacit endorsement

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cold

Marc Rothko's painting 
 evokes no response at all 
Is this thing turned on?

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tidy

Mass and energy 
balanced against gravity 
add up to nothing

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the roar of the waters

A tide of Black Hats 
 swirls through Brooklyn's narrow streets 
 to greet the sabbath

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say what?

Gerald Ford pardoned 
 unenumerated crimes 
evil precedent 

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risky

Herman Cain pulled out 
 before harassment's proven 
 bid interruptus

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stigma

Who grabs his backers? 
 anyone whom he'll endorse 
 gets the Mark of Cain

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surreptitious

Dark helicopters 
disguised as conspiracies 
 prowl the skies by night

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Mossadegh

In Iran's oil-fields 
 the last outpost of empire 
 threw off Britain's yoke

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leadership

Soldiers in training 
need a spiritual guide 
 to say it's ok

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schizo

Rationalizing 
 unexamined biases 
 Newt is of two minds

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