Oppenheimer's joke

bunker buster bombs
too big for most bombers' bays
need airborne oxcarts

hot air

to our grave peril
Kurtis can't digest lactose
but his gut's bugs can

where there's a will

bizarrely motile
razor clams' prehensile foot
swims through hard-packed sand

snug

like some Grimm's tale gnome
James doled out insulation
as we lay sleeping

processing

natural pilots
soar fine when they're hypoxic
others have to think

less equal?

naturalized Swedes
demanding equality
shocked their White neighbors

who's in charge here?

David Petraeus
dragged ambassador Stevens
into his spy war

agitated

Monday's excitement
PG deploys right at Walt's
on the rocks, shaken

cumulus

 a mile of debris
forms the Owens Valley's floor
those peaks have deep roots

up

be they near or far
objects at the horizon
are on your level

yare

if your wing winds in
when you've blundered out of lift
let her autocore!

out of the flow

down below the wind
in the morning inversion
free to conjecture

control design

manual O2
leaves important decisions
to the stupid guy

conventions

airstrip "34"
runs almost exactly North
magnetic markings

investing

near an isotherm
benching to higher triggers
often gets one through

pastoral

Moshe's tender care
for his father-in-law's flock
earned a harder job

to the limit

always approaching
terminal velocity
never getting there

so very close

Xeno's paradox
stands between you and your goal
asymptotically

natural rights

Locke's Second Treatise
found limits to property
one owns what one tills

glib

inarticulate
characters make weak drama
although they're the norm

duty

one retired Ghurka
rescued a girl from dacoits
forty fled, three died

hypocrite

Keller's feigned outrage
after quashing Lichtblau's scoop
should convince no one

faker

Bill Keller comes out
as a political hack
selective outrage

boundaries

gut bacteria
must be recognized as "self"
by your leucocytes

grand experiment

sub-therapeutic
antibiotic doses
fatten steers (and kids?)

plutocracy

with the States' power
bankers use austerity
to squeeze blood from stones

niche

leave it to Darwin
bats evolved erectile tongues
to plumb honeypots

razed

Moore, Oklahoma
reduced by a tornado
now seems rather Lesse

facts on the ground

seventy percent
of Israelis want Two States
time's not on their side

Imagine

I'd like to believe
visualizing whirled peas
keeps aging brains spry

sham

Rafsanjani's out
before polls even open
sham democracy

on the shoulders of giants

Lyell and Hutton
shed light on the depths of Time
Darwin ran with it

blunt

less Art than Combat
Eve Ensler and Michael Moore
use words as bludgeons

strange bedfellows

al-Assad's allies
don't have a lot in common
friend of the Devil

within the law

subsidiaries
without any employees
claimed Apple's income

trompe l'oeil

moon-lit andesite
driving through Yosemite
gleams like old snow-banks

razed

in Oklahoma
the town of Moore was reduced
now, it's rather Lesse

greedy

Arik's bichurim
seize double inheritance
in Samaria

designed

some see proof of God
in the way creationists'
fingers fit their ears

instrumentality

bluegrass reworks
the standard rock repertoire
all is new again

it's personal

Bashar's civil war
kills myriad Syrians
but spares al-Assads

extremis

Syrian virgins
sold to bridegrooms from the Gulf
keep their brothers fed

conundrum

quis custodiet
--when our DoJ's snooping--
ipsos custodes?

flamboyant

Anna's hummingbirds
zoom and plummet in courtship
nauseatingly

abuse

rogue CIA thugs
can't bear all Abu Ghraib's sins
fish stink from the head

futurity

for planting a tree
best time? twenty years ago
second best? today

color-blind

real equality!
no one knows that you're a dog
on the internet

calibrating noisy detectors

each micro-saccade
refreshes the stimulus
what's static, erodes

the ear of the beholder

slyly engaging
John Cage's "4:33"
recruits inner noise

misappropriated

privatization
enriched al-Assad's cronies
but starved Syria

sophistication

pre-verbal children
can relate color to space
Sapir-Worf won't die

stalled

four years and counting
Iran's next revolution
can't find second gear

new skills

as I grow older
I keep learning new life-skills
(shaving my own back...)

cartoonish violence

new suppervillain
makes cars in Kabul blow up
calls himself "ZarGhon"

strategic uselessness

obstructionism
unifies the GOP
like no issue could

outta here

Bilbo and Frodo
foresook their shares in this world
having seen too much

exaggeration

dietary salt
demonized beyond reason
breeds scepticism

where there's a resource...

leave it to Darwin
bats evolved erectile tongues
to plumb honeypots

wanderjahr

geatish warriors
proved their mettle in Denmark
battling foreigners

used

Department of State
got a new role from Cheney
as CIA's bitch

bridge over-runs

galvanized steel bolts
hydrogen embrittlement
false economy

meddling cardiologists

vengeance is the Lord's
but after five heart attacks
Cheney won't stay dead

mean

after WWII
Morgenthau's revanchism
would have lost the Peace

baiting bigots

comic book villain
my nose on Ben Kingsley's face
redmeat for bigots

rationally

eating one's toe nails
has the same health benefits
as ground rhino horn

red sea experience

at the speed limit
I fall in behind the cop
traffic parts like reeds

cover and content

Beauty's just skin-deep
but Ugly goes to the bone
witness Cheney's "smile"

art's price

ballerinas' feet
through which they express beauty
ugly as oysters

excess

la nouvelle cuisine
smoked pork ribs with hollandaise
gilding the lilly

so familiar

prophecy intrudes
posing as a memory
from some other life

genocidal

Nigerian morgues
sort the living from the dead
soldiers get sloppy

luxe lox

smoked Steelhead belly
mediates between poached eggs
and the Hollandaise

a time to pause a time to push

pausing to thermal
while I'm still above 10k
would have felt wasteful

next wave

two thousand fifteen
Szechuan small-plates as bar food
moves oceans of beer

optimal

low-cost computing
a thin film's architecture
maps the salesman's route

irrational

Moronic Design
each creationist's fingers
fit his ears so well

abuse of office

Niall Ferguson
spews his homophobic bile
from a Harvard chair

entrenched

Krusinski's record
studiously purged of crimes
shows his friends lie well

simplify!

when I think too much
I'm apt to lose my thermal
lizard brain climbs best

misguided

disaffected youth
should play in a garage band
not with IEDs

whee!

Spring air at Dunlap
by the time I've zipped my pod
I'm past 7k

critical

Dunlap's LZ dog
disapproving of Clay's whack
peed on his harness

aesthetic choice

in matters of taste
there can be no compulsion
only derision

selective

blind in the Right eye
no one prosecutes Nazis
when a Turk's handy

lapse rate

advancing cold-front
plows warm air off the terrain
thermals at midnight

tenacity

sometimes mountains flush
like a dog shaking off fleas
I cling like a tick

dividends

two hours of scraping
got me over Delilah
abruptly, it's phat

corrupted

Department of State
repurposed by Cheney/Bush
as CIA's bitch

legitimacy

Lincoln got it wrong
self-determination's right
even for Texans

intelligence complex

Tsarnaev's uncle
"once" worked for Halliburton
mere coincidence?

goals

Lord, help me to be
the man my dog thinks I am
aspirational!

leader of the pack

thirty years later
Trampeneau's innovations
industry standard

ersatz

carob ain't chocolate
the taste of disappointment
is merely bitter

clueless

Dayton, Nevada
no one hangs flags (or laundry)
nest of subversives

whose peers?

Zimmerman's lawyer
thinks a jury of his peers
has to exclude Blacks

passing phase

Dunning/Krager taught
delusions of competence
are normal (for teens)

better than foil!

shielded baseball caps
for "electrosensitives"
stupidity tax

soulless

professor Dennett
devastates Searle's fallacy
"Chinese Room"'s a sham

to see ourselves...

beginning pilot
suffers from high self-esteem
gives me more grey hairs

long arm of empire

Potempkin crusade:
"clean up graft and corruption"
CIA funds it

fresh air

minister Letta's
"subversive language of truth"
calls for stimulus

bitch

Lady Profeco
whined for a better table
criminal tantrum

Cain

brothers Tsarnaev
one impressionable teen
bears his brother's mark

a little more than kin and less than kind

gut commensals grind
dietary carnitine
to TMAO

apt pupil

bubble-net feeding
spread to orcas from humpbacks
whom they had eaten

Luther

Hamza Kashgari
preaches the Enlightenment
from Saudi jail

glimpses

this mirror's haunted
dad's reflection gazes back
as I shave my face

plus ca change...

under steamed spare ribs
taro soaked in meat juices
in lieu of white bread

Cut it out! II

heat a cautery!
al-Assad must be cut out
to staunch the bleeding

cut it out!

to staunch the bleeding
Assad should be cauterized
like a skin lesion

it's personal

maybe Hariri?
someone ought to whack Assad
to staunch the bleeding

so much shit

let's route a river
through Mitch McConnell's office
Augean stable

let them be signs to mark the seasons

Shavuot's half-moon
testifies Rabbis have erred
Omer starts eighth day

Ab

bivalent in blood
pentavalent globulins
patrol mucosa

one chance

Temescaltepec
land up at Armand's batcave
walk down into town

what's in a name?

macho Gypsy dude
calls himself "HungAryan"
doesn't mean Magyar

Enlightened

Egypt's way forward
on the line marked "religion"
"none of your business"

haRahaman II

Hariri Jr.
should whack Bashar al-Assad
Allah knows, it's just

haRahaman

Hariri junior
should whack Bashir al-Assad
Allah knows, it's just

right of way

moist farting noises
buy extra room on the bus
ventriloquists' joke

hang him

criminal regime
gassing his own citizen
Assad's gotta go

old-school

old technology
kerosene and oxygen
still power Space-X

myopic

Greenspan got it wrong
real bankers are dumb enough
to crash the whole game

catty

"a second-class mind
but a first-class temperment"
Churchill got snarky

idle hands

when monomers are scant
growing polymers bite back
five carbons away

I blame Dick

floods in the MidWest
while Californians face drought
worlds turned upside down

bait and switch

FDR campaigned
on balancing the budget
on a weak dollar

trapped

nobody's spending
what Keynes called memorably
"magneto trouble"

sounds familiar...

bats bruise their noses
trying to drink from steel plates
they all sound the same

out there

no apologies
Ed Norton's alter-ego
kicked ass in FightClub

legacy

dads with Aspergers
don't recognize it in sons
family values

trailblazer

hidden in plain sight
Jane Austen: GameTheorist
centuries ahead

but not bunker busters

in-air refueling
not for Israeli defense
that points to Iran

two-edged

Bela Kun's warchest
exporting revolution
scuttled his own ship

new man

Pip's transformation
smithy-boy to gentleman
mocked class distinctions