a better cow

greener ungulates
dispense with methanogens
among symbiotes

testimony of your senses

Traffic-cop's midrash
on an intangible God
"nothing to see here"

morag

second Isaiah
likened us to threshing sleds
winnowing nations

bioluminescent

Gollum's pallid eyes
glint in the stygian cave
for those who can see

hardened

Gandalf was sent back
naked on the mountaintop
annealed for battle

selection pressure

don't look too eager
the early worm gets eaten
preferentially

born again

Gandalf was remade
in the fires of Moria
much like Anduril

like clockwork

eager to explore
the unknown country of sex
teens chafe at boundaries

Popper's test

String Theory's weakness
what cannot be falsified
may not be science

self-defeating

most unCivil War
two percent of our nation
blew its own brain out

false metric

maleducation
teaches kid how to pass tests
but not how to think

quiet scandal

standardized test scores
track with parental income
none dare call it "class"

proxy war II

elections are close!
since he can't attack Iran
Bibi bombs Gaza

provocateur

let the critics blush!
Steinbeck didn't hesitate
to be outrageous

cynic

as if it were planned
Bibi faces elections
as war-time PM

disfunctional

Esau took comfort
plotting to kill his brother
once Isaac was dead

fictive

"Republican math"
gave Mitt Romney the White House
by inventing "facts"

a more perfect union

let Texas secede
and bring Puerto Rico in
we'll keep the same flag

i/o

voice recognition
software spares you the typing
where there's no keyboard

history's rhyme

Ethan Bronner sees
a Cuban Missile Crisis
play out in Gaza

we have the technology

Telchar's masterpiece
shattered in Isildur's hand
to be forged anew

the medium is the message

sonnets are classy
but haiku's more versatile
to comment on news

by other means

Mohammed Morsi
comes out looking statesman-like
to Bibi's bully

shape of things to come

ditch the infantry
autonomous killer 'bots
make them obsolete

Do I know you?

hard to beat this one:
most awkward introduction
"I knew your mother..."

palimpset

shedding the week's stress
turning over a new leaf
exfoliation

sauve qui peut

Timothy Geithner's
Potempkin economy
saved only Wall Street

the edge in battle

the helm of Turin
and the sword of Aragorn
Telchar's legacy

well preserved

Faustian bargain?
Keith Richards' longevity
mocks actuaries

ars longa, vita brevis

Achilles, redux
Jimi Hendrix died early
and lives forever

yesterday's hot property

an age of cellphones
no one has "Intel Inside"
tempus mutantur

not his problem

Keith Richards explained
his problem isn't with drugs
it's with enforcement

snap!

The mask of surprise 

 on learning lunch isn't free 

 stares from my mousetrap

shameless

Bold! New! and Improved! 

 shake Mitt Romney's Etch-A-Sketch 

 no one remembers

spineless

Glib invertebrate 

Romney will say anything 

 depends who's asking

meaning

To bury one's child 

 turns a cosmos on its head 

 absurdity squared

neo-Mandarins

Wealthy new elite 

 with Red Party connections 

 murders Chairman Mao

keep the faith

CHANGE is our future 

 Russ Feingold for president 

 two-thousand-sixteen

read twice

Beneath the surface 

 sexual innuendo 

backlights most haiku

vital minerals

Perfect specimen 

 dropped dead on the Finish Line 

 hyponatremic

bereshit

Every new morning 

 seperating Light from Dark 

 echoes Creation

above the Law

Smug impunity 

 al-Awlaki's murderers 

 will never be charged

playing games

In the FISA case 

SCOTUS weighs Catch-22 

 no one has standing

indeterminate IV

Like Schroedinger's cat 

 Romney's both For and Against 

until you ask him

poise

Delicate balance: 

contemplate mortality 

 then get on with life

liars' poker

Senator Biden 

 ripped Ryan a new asshole 

 to pull "facts" out of

motivational

Laffer's fallacy 

 assumes wages drive the rich 

 ignoring ego

revenue

Even Art Laffer 

 advocates what his fans won't 

 tax unearned income!

edgy

Anchored in live bone

 exposed to the food we chew 

 teeth live on the edge

too pure for this world

Waay past Adam Smith 

 Free Market fetishism 

 drives the Extreme Right

illusion of communication

Who truly Groks you? 

 All language is metaphor 

 patched with projections

lemonade

Franz Kafka's dark muse 

 turned bureaucratic boredom 

 into creepy art

army of occupation

Sixteen-thousand strong 

 our Baghdad embassy staff 

 train like infantry

Occupy's victory

"wealth disparities" 

 pushed "debt" out of the forefront 

 in the voters' minds

useless

Boehner's legacy 

 like Newt Gingrich's gridlock 

 amounts to nothing

other people's money

Conservative PACS 

 lavished billions on losers 

 savvy investors??

sampling rate

as ents reckon it 

 the years since Eorl the Young 

seem a passing dream

Party of Denial

GOP bluster 

 shirk responsibility

/ blame the TeaParty

enthralled

Arkin and Goodman 

bring the goods for Ben Affleck 

 Argo's a good ride

dark stuff

Finnish murderers 

 immortalized in ballads 

 keep the long nights dark

echo chamber II

Viewers of FoxNews 

 mistook their propaganda 

 for reality

raging ambition

David Petraeus 

 couldn't keep it in his pants 

 undisciplined spy

towering achievement

Basaltic pillar 

 etched out in its caldera 

 image of Orthanc

evitable?

People had no choice 

John Boehner ran unopposed 

 what's wrong with Kansas?

dystopia

Composed on the backs. . . 

 while Kafka waited in line 

 . . .of DMV forms

echo chamber

Fox propagandists 

 insist reality's wrong 

 they know that they're Right

reflections

Each Armistice Day 

 reflect on what might yet be 

 a world up in flames

fetch the exorcist

Muttering darkly 

 Boehner's back in Washington 

 diminished, not dead

what counts

Only the last point 

determines a tennis match 

 the rest is warm-up

busted

David Petraeus 

 a spy without discipline 

 can't keep his lies straight

can't buy me love

Karl Rove's candidates 

 backed by unlimited cash 

 lost across the board

think globally

Acting locally 

 women of the Arab Spring 

 are changing their worlds

papering over

Professor Lewis 

wants ad hoc courts for kill-lists 

 as if that's legit

la-la land

With Mitt at the helm 

 the Party of Delusion 

foundered in the facts

proxy fight

Adelson's money 

 helped Newt twist the knife in Mitt 

 Barack's hands stayed clean

dynast

"The Little Brown One" 

tests political waters 

meet George Prescott Bush

filibuster reform

Obama's mandate 

 the Party of Obstruction 

 still doesn't get it

Justice for all

BP's guilty plea 

 bolsters Holder's resume

 next job: KBR

ambition II

A biographer 

 of Director/CIA 

 ought to raise eyebrows

falsifiable

Addington sealed it 

 gravitational lensing 

isn't just theory

ambition

Petraeus scandal 

 Caesar's wife's above reproach 

 but her man got caught

"may cause anal leakage"

Mandated label 

 on "foods" fried in Olestra 

could lead to weight loss

can't make this stuff up

Will Rogers averred 

 "I don't trouble writing jokes; 

 I just read the news"

intolerant

Our first colonists 

 fleeing The Enlightenment 

 would have hanged John Locke

truthiness

Mitt got blindsided 

 inside his own noise machine 

 the facts got drowned out

no vestige of beginning, no prospect of end

With each drop of rain 

 the oceans begin again 

changeless, ever new

timeless

The mask of surprise 

 on learning lunch isn't free 

stares from my mousetrap

flip-flopper III

Bold! New! and Improved! 

 shake Mitt Romney's Etch-A-Sketch 

no one remembers

absurdity II

Ecclesiastes 

 sang of life's absurdity 

 questions, not answers

nothing to say, but loud

In the third debate 

Romney endorsed Obama 

 point by point by point

spineless

Glib invertebrate 

Romney will say anything 

 depends who's asking

absurd

To bury one's child 

 turns a cosmos on its head 

 absurdity squared

government creates jobs

Mitt wants more warships 

 than the Pentagon asked for 

 to take Virginia

insecurity

Bullet-proof buses 

 can't quell foreign athletes' fears 

Pakistan's scary

Jefferson's clock

Wealthy new elite 

with Red Party connections 

 murders Chairman Mao

illumination

Beneath the surface 

 sexual innuendo 

 backlights most haiku

recapitulate

Every new morning

 seperating Light from Dark 

 echoes Creation

above the law

Smug impunity 

 al-Awlaki's murderers 

 will never be charged

arrogance

Nuns are disputing 

the Vatican's emperor 

 they know who's like Christ

shell game

In the FISA case 

SCOTUS weighs Catch-22 

 no one has standing

indeterminate

Like Schroedinger's cat 

 Romney's both For and Against 

 until you ask him

realpolitik

Evangelicals 

back Romney more than McCain 

 Really? WTF?

special physics

No ambient light 

 puts the gleam in Gollum's eye 

 radiant malice

fault

Incompetant stone 

 honeycombed with thermal vents

tectonic boundary

yomei norah

Delicate balance: 

 contemplate mortality 

 then get on with life

tant pis

arthritic rhinos 

dominate the breeding stock 

 Darwin doesn't care 

liar

Mitt's "moderation" 

 means he isn't unbending 

in speaking just truth

fair-weather patriot

Romney's supporters 

 rethought after Sandy hit 

looking for relief

done

Death unstrung his limbs 

a petulant puppeteer 

bored with his plaything