2013-10-30

the face of the waters

vayehi erev
the Deep murmurs endless psalms
to an upstart god

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stranded III

lame, unrestful sleep
sailors claim tucked in shore beds
unrocked by the sea

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Change I can believe in

president Warren
could be what Obama's not
run, Elizabeth!

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stranded II

what lame, restless sleep
sailors claim tucked in shore beds
unrocked by the sea

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stranded

paralyzed shore-bed
not rocked on the sea's bosom
offers no real rest

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frenemy

Ashfaq Kayyani
hid Osama bin Laden
abetting his crimes

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ordered

four hydrogen bonds
two donors, two acceptors
bind each node in ice

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above that

no prosecutions
money buys impunity
if you're CitBank

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shallow

forget policy
most American voters
will pick the tall guy

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container for the thing contained

embarrelled hobbit
entrances the audience
more than the jugged hare

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how, not why

absurd creation
Darwin's dangerous idea
dispenses with "why"

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baseline

all Winter gardens
whatever the Summer crop
default to favas

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values

Joe Gordon-Levitt's
directorial debut
weigh's love against lust

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prophet without honor

"this is the abyss
from which there is no return"
                                               Senator Frank Church

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criminal

Cheney and justice
won't meet in a U.S. court
he'll have to travel

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recursive loop

some things have no place
in the Rabbinic cosmos
e.g. the first tongs

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the horror

Ugandan soldiers
will resort to plundering
if they don't get fed

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tzuri

technologies change
inalienable rights
aren't supposed to

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glossy

any salesman knows
confidence not competence
impresses the chumps

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framing

Art means Editing
in any complete story
everybody dies

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yearning to breath free

what makes a "People"?
maybe Lincoln got it wrong
liberate Texans!

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the game

Hillary's pattern:
embracing powerful men
more than policies

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factional

split the GOP!
Jim DeMint for president!
2016

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trending

Kermit Lynch opines:
"some wines are in, some are out"
it's not quality

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high crimes

J.P. Morgan/Chase
pled for non-prosecution
Holder showed some balls

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human condition

unlike for singles
loneliness inside marriage
has no safe outlet

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a stitch in time

dermatologists
don't wait for full-blown cancers
they cut out nevi

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wait...for...it...

imminent moonrise
lurking just behind the hill
palpable tension

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greater good

judge Murray Gurfein
asserted the People's rights
against State Secrets

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war chant

tribal politics
TeaParty "economics"
aren't rational

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highly sustainable

venison's virtues
nothing's more sustainable
than my garden pests

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cost/benefit

Macchiavelli
anticipated Bentham
tallying insults

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atavistic

Ted Cruz's fanclub
still fighting the Civil War
just seem petulant

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2013-10-19

that's heavy

JimBridger dragline
custom metamorphosis
makes slate on demand

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new under the sun!

Greenwald's new venture
independent journalists
answer to no one

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qui bono

rescuing WallStreet
at the taxpayers' expense
Geithner knew who's boss

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credible

are They after him?
just because he's paranoid
doesn't mean They're not

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2013-10-17

too nice

issue by issue
premature compromises
cramp Obama's game

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old tech

ribosome function
proteins are prostheses on
RNA machines

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logical necessity

Talmudic rabbis
dispensed with recursive loops
e.g. the first tongs

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job security

were the world at peace
spy agencies built for war
would sabotage it

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abrupt

like Athena's birth
the dawn of literacy
found Homer, full-formed

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in through the window

profound brain insights
two-photo microscopy
penetrates the mush

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some are more equal

John Boehner's ego
bolstered by the Hastert Rule
guts democracy

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finite

the deaths of others
teach us to number our days
all is transience

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flubber

Chicken McNuggets:
composite material,
elastomeric

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recycled

Chicken McNuggets
glued together from nuggets
the cat wouldn't eat

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reynolds' constraints

smooth, laminar flow
works for albatross and shad
not for jellyfish

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distinct

baruch haMavdil!
God of discriminations
and mishpat echat

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prime/pump

if you're quick enough
two-photon excitations
cheat quantization

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constraints

one can't help thinking
she would enjoy dancing more
without the high heels

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2013-10-12

bought

creeping dementia
infiltrates our politics
on a flood of checks

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not with the program

virgins in BlueStates
aren't screwing anyone
failed Republicans

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spring

each flowering shrub
in Basho's imagery
springs as a surprise

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inside job

another billion
Richard Blum didn't deserve
the insdider's life

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invested

no one gets out free
attachments cause suffering
love is bought with pain

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all is relative

governor Jeb Bush
plays the adult in the room
among screaming brats

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packed

double entendres
pack the most into haiku
reading each word twice

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discriminating

we communicate
only as we simplify
whole Truth's too fuzzy

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unproven

open with a joke
Manoah had no children
and no second wife

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brat

irresponsible
BananaRepublicans
asking to get spanked

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aleatory

Jeremy Rifkin
professional fear-monger
may be right (some day)

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enriched

critical thinking
drives Republicans away
from the sciences

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GI,GO II

sham democracy
polls voters' prejudices
but denies them facts

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GI, GO

media matter
where voters can't trust the news
democracy fails

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liar II

House Speaker Boehner
thinks nothing of dissembling
he lies to himself

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Rambam

Guide for the Perplexed
recociled Aristotle
for reluctant Jews

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discernment

Lord, grant me coffee!
to change the things I can change
and wine for the rest

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extrajudicial

Navy transport ship
portable Guantanamo
laws may not apply

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liar

lying to himself
representative Boehner
contempt of Congress

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unreliable

falsus in unum
falsus est in omnibus!
you can't trust a crook

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forethought

lay drunks on their sides!
vomiting flat on their backs
they can aspirate

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tits on a boar

Klugey compromise
RomneyCare keeps insurers
where they have no role

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bleached II

dawn shrinks my cosmos
down to a solar system
all else fades to noise

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the smallprint

in Western Europe
Denmark's the biggest country
(if you count Greenland)

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bleached

October sunrise
sluices Orion away
in floods of photons

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what's done isn't done

Boehner and his thugs
when RomneyCare passed Congress
bargained in bad faith

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behind the times

atavistic fears
sent a grown bear galloping
from Scott's mere shadow

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Absurd

waiting for dinner
"the barbecue's out of meat"
                                           Samuel Beckett

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chicken fingers

transglutaminase
lets one sculpt things out of "meat"
undreamt in nature

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2013-10-11

reformulated

since it isn't meat
what defines "chicken nuggets"?
transglutaminase

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undercover

John Boehner's fake tan
hides the moments he must blush
to spout such bullshit

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manipulated

Boehner's brinksmanship
doesn't risk his salary
other people's lives

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meddlesome

congress mandated
eleven carrier groups
indefensible!

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used

sanctimonious
BananaRepublicans
play voters for fools

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cumulative

each swig of whiskey
swelling like an organ chord
builds the weekend buzz

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partisans

nation hostage to
BananaRepublicans
ungovernable

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tacit

first rule of FightClub:
you don't talk about FightClub
there's no second rule

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blah blah blah

Americans have
the Right to remain Silent
too few enjoy it

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uniformed crime

Kenyan army troops
prolonged Nairobi's mall siege
while they looted shops

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priorities

Boehner feels their wrath
government shut-down's not cute
panda-cam went dark!

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Ozymandias

only ribs remain
profane cromlech in the sand
that had been a whale

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delusion

Boehner's the new Newt
proudly claiming victory
while voters ditch him

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Gargantua

JimBridger dragline
lays a foot-path of new slate
where there had been shale

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ante

Bacevich tallies
the price of citizenship:
everybody serves

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extractive

deforestation
fuels Somalia's Shabaab
exporting charcoal

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played

against Soviets
we armed the Muhajedin
Arms merchants won big

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We, the People

congressman Rush Holt
wants the PATRIOT Act scrapped
voice of sanity

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42

everyone, always
is part of the solution
no one knows to what

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control

controlling queen bitch
towers over her courtieres
by tearing them down

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spatial

oriental rugs
carve a home out of bare sand
where I've pitched my tent

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purblind

orange John Boehner
sees "breathtaking arrogance"
in his own tactics

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untouchable

everyone concedes
James Clapper holds enough dirt
to tear down the sky

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retrograde

Morsi's overthrow
betraying the Arab Spring
served no sane purpose

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the Schoolcraft horrors

terrorists in blue
unlawful imprisonment
by Bloomberg's police

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terrorists in blue

Schoolcraft documents
unlawful imprisonment
by Bloomberg's police

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puppeteer II

who's pulling who's strings?
until James Clapper gets fired
Obama's suspect

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puppeteer

Until Clapper's fired
we know Obama's hostage
to his own spy-chief

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James Clapper

Obama's spy-chief
collects dirt on everyone
"job security"

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Shiva's messenger

the Porlock merchant
interrupting Coleridge
blew a world to smoke

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before time

page two: b'reshit
the creation of Tehom
happened on page one

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indefensible!

Damn the torpedoes!
eleven carrier groups
are above question

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punctuate

poorly socialized
the panda eats, shoots, and leaves
never tips the staff

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bugs

a glut of lobsters
cheaper than dungeness crabs
buggers the market

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unchecked

transformed in-situ
riddled with teratomas
ends some stem-cell dreams

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stigma

"modular housing"
escapes the class-stigma of
"prefabricated"

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risky

pseudoephedrine
fuels the meth epidemic
why's this OTC??

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2013-10-04

force of nature

JimBridger dragline
leaves a footpath of new slate
where there had been shale

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fallen prince

Beijing's party line
Bo XiLai's the corrupt one
unique in his class

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immersive

the best of peaches
shouldn't be eaten indoors
or with a shirt on 

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defunded

FauxNews viewership
should "win" one-way vacations
to Somalia

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mike-time

Ted Cruz's gabfest
deferred the nation's business
to serve his ego

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flow II

"frangar non flectar"
what was virtue in old Rome
now gets you divorced

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opportunity

breeder reactors
run on U238
that had been called "waste"

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flow

life is what happens
while you're making other plans
who won't bend will break

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predator

William Rapfogel
earned a special place in Hell
bilking charities

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