Moses

to create by speech
would be fitting for a god
primates use a stick

nothing for nothing

airfoils ain't magic
unless you create downwash
you don't produce lift

big world

every thousand gained
buys three miles gliding downwind
horizons expand

nothing to do

pimply-faced mall-rats
bored out of their teenaged minds
crave a good day's work

hydrodynamic

evisceration
threatens anyone who sits
on hot-tub outlets

pattern recognition

California's droughts
correlate with phat soaring
and crappy skiing

dim sum

skip the fried wontons
I'm not as white as I look
bring the chicken feet

what should be obvious

Balaam's talking ass
echoed Achilles' horses
you can't fight with gods

referent

synoptic gospels
midrashim on a lost text
designate it "Q"

unknown

each new flying site
comes with that first-date frisson
is this one crazy?

indelible

unsavory stain
on Pennsylvania's record
Santorum was here

explosive

panic grips the Right
Santorum must be contained!
Newt's face shows the strain

useful trick

erectile tissue
evolved independently
in ratites and rats

family resemblance

seals and sealions
shared a flippered ancestor
"monophyletic"

culture of abuse

"Oscar Grant Plaza"
lends Oakland a beating heart
now there's a "there", there

survivor's burden

The better brother 

 Hektor to Bibi's Paris 

 died at Entebbe

foul!

Romney and Gingrich

 couldn't contain Santorum 

 the race gets messy

dead end

Toxoplasmosis 

 harmless in cats, but in man: 

schizophrenia

in his element

Nomen est omen 

 Newt is an amphibian 

 lives part-time in sin

noise machine

it's the same old crap

 human centiGOPede 

 recycles attacks

same old crap

Endless news cycle 

 human centiGOPede 

 recycles attacks

violated

Impounding assets 

 before showing malfeasance 

 neuters Due Process

of nine minds

Unanimous court 

 overlapping opinions 

 nine minds, nine logics

liar

Amphibious Newt 

 always in his element 

 lives part-time in sin

K street

Peddling influence 

 made Gingrich a wealthy man 

while skirting the Law

Orwellian

Ahmadinejad 

 cultivates external threats 

 to rally voters

uncivil

Newt's pugnacity 

endears him to some voters 

 mostly White bigots

snap shot

Blogging in haiku 

psychological portrait 

 three lines at a time

joke of a system

Stephen Colbert's PAC 

 mocks our campaign finances 

 "one dollar, one vote"

two-faced

South Carolina 

 votes for the amphibian 

 lives part-time in sin

The West is red

 The sun is setting 

 Mao is buried in China 

 next revolution

elephantine

Grapefruit sized eyeballs 

 larger than the seals' brainpan 

 peer out of the depths

one-sided

Hunters hunt for sport 

 but the fox dies in ernest 

inequitable

broken? fixed!

The revolving door 

 enriches ex-congressmen 

 we're served with gravy

opaque

Unless it's Apple 

 each new user interface 

 might as well be Greek

opaque

Unless it's Apple 

 each new user interface 

 might as well be Greek

noisesome

Bible-belt rumblings 

 Santorum must be contained! 

 Newt's face shows the strain

superbowl

Get some exercise! 

watching grown men play kids' games 

doesn't count as sport

where to start

Thomas L. Friedman 

 knows what Americans want 

just not who's paying

bombast

Gingrich's ego 

expands outwards towards the moon 

 toads puff up when scared

disgraceful

Ex-speaker Gingrich 

 "brought discredit on the House" 

 to use his own words

the wrong brother

Bibi sees a chance 

 to be hailed as a strong man 

 for striking Iran

demure

Japanese women 
speaking in a high shrill squeak 
 affirm men's status

never to work again

Gingrich claims credit 
 for fixing how Congress works 
 "fixed" like a stray cat

not too subtle

Scratch a Newt backer 
under States Rights rhetoric 
 you'll find a racist

state interests

Russian arms makers 
 bank on sales to Syria 
 more "Stalin" than "Marx" 

juvenile

Were Newt to grow up 
 what might he become in time? 
 imago? Statesman?

on schedule

Teens get difficult 

 girls try to live on salads 

boys just want red meat

material science

polysaccarides

starch and cellulose and guar... 

storage for sunlight

nothing to lose

Oppressed for too long 

to stand up, we must sit in 

Occupy Wall Street

unforeseen

Migrating song-birds 

 blinded by drilling platforms 

 rain into the sea

camouflage

Playful colorschemes 

 can't hide bad architecture 

 if you've built a box

global

Boom time in China 

may be falling off a cliff 

 no one's importing

spectacle

Grand funeral games 

honored Achilles' boyfriend 

 while Hektor rotted

signifier

The word's not the thing 

 all language is metaphor 

C'est ne pas un pipe

droit de seigneur

Agamemnon's prize 

 unearned in the throwing match 

 story of his life

class issues

Prophetic vision 
 the Cuomo convention speech 
 took aim at Romney

unearned

For hungry workers 

 Mitt Romney's unearned income 

 looks like an issue

out of touch

For one year's speeches 

 a third of a million bucks 

 "wasn't much" to Mitt

good start

To "Love thy Neighbor" 

 start by not invading him 

 Whom would Jesus bomb?

unreal

Defrocking a priest 

because he had known the world 

 the Church plays ostrich

unintended consequences

Fixing nitrogen 

kept the Kaiser in the war 

 Haber killed millions

polo field

Standardized testing 

 sorts kids by parents' income 

 bias is built in

house rules

"Carried interest" 

 fat bankers avoid taxes 

 "legally", of course

proxy fight

Applauding Gingrich 
 for each blow he lands on Mitt 
 Democrats kick back

can't we all just get along?

Perry's endorsement 
 sticks a knife into Romney 
 the blood keeps flowing

mulch

A mountain of leaves 
 rotting in the Winter rain 
 build my garden soil

short-term

Roman "peacekeepers"
 crucified thousands of Jews 
 it worked. . . For a while

three-timer

Consensus is clear 
 among Newt Gingrich's wives 
 he's not the right man

win/win

Each bloated campaign 
 corporate media win 
 and the People lose

blah, blah, blah

Gingrich wants a chance 
 to hear Gingrich talk a lot 
 no one else agrees

life experience

Mitt Romney's mission 

 taught him about rejection 

 and auto-safety

unfit

Italian captain 

abandons his sinking ship 

 afraid of the Dark

bastion of Liberty

Henry Kissinger 
always supports a strongman 
 over democrats

terminal degree

Governor moonbeam 
 brings a new focus to bear 
 there's no next office

information wants to be free

DNA fragments
amplified from orca scat
floating data dumps

sun tanning

savage tug-of-war
as if tanning an ox-hide
Patrokles got stretched

ira dei

Achilles bellowed
flames flickered around his head
Wrath had found its voice

shining Achilles

never growing old
in Peleus' armor
a good looking corpse

unreasonable

real Small Government
would stay out of our bedrooms
throw all the bums out

finicky

teens get difficult
girls try to live on salads
boys just want red meat

losing traction

standard of living
where the rubber meets the road
Romney's way off track

damned

Not like those Shaheeds 
 Rick Santorum's afterlife 
is worse than this one

good news?

Evangelicals 

 settle for Rick Santorum 

 hard times for Good News

kabuki

Pakistan's army 

 doesn't need to stage a coup 

 they've already won

source theory

In Balaam's story 

 Wellhausen's hypothesis 

 cuts a lot of knots

weedy

Super PACs unchained 
 keep more players in the race 
 the long knives come out

monster

Assad promises 

 He'll sooth his beloved People 

the dead feel no pain

the dead feel no pain

Assad promises 

 He'll sooth his beloved People 

 with an iron fist

coded

Pacification 

 in al-Assad's lexicon 

means more blood, not peace

revolution in progress

Zahra's paradise 

holds not just dead patriots 

 the future lies there