momentous

through History's eyes
America's Century
ended at Dubya

targeted

drop the blunderbuss
CRISPR mutagenesis
cuts like a scalpel

influential II

Cheney's MeatPuppet
an arm slipped up Dubya's ass
made the words come out

bitten off too much

everybody wants
to think Putin's rational
but he acts rabid

focus

always your "A-game"
take each climb personally
'til you're packing up

influential

Cheney's dark talent
shoulder-deep up Dubya's ass
making the lips move

just the medium

the secret to wealth:
money can buy happiness
only by giving

is there anybody out there?

"consciousness problem"
constructs built on scant data
where "there is no spoon"

too much

one's mind could founder
on MDMA's flood-tide
so many new friends

panoptikon

Clapper's ambition
George Orwell's dystopia's
got nothing on this

shallow bench

who'll fill Feinstein's seat?
In all of California
there's only....Jerry?

gift- horse

nothing's more useless
than the airstrip behind you
don't cut long fields short

incentive

gamblers behave like
pigeons pecking for cocaine
where there's no pattern

inutile

atavistic joy
in pattern recognition
makes Sudoku fun

possesion

in lucid moments
Helen scolds Aphrodite
that she's badly used

mission-creep

Bonaparte's army
in the name of Liberté
conquered an empire

not for this world

something too perfect
Jean Rochefort as Quixote
must offend the gods

undignified

what looks dorkier
than a cop on a segway?
(ok...trick question)

evil precedent

Crimean Tatars
remembering Stalin's crimes
view Putin with dread

rabid II

the wolf Feinstein nursed
sunk its fangs into her breast
now, it must be shot

echoes

microwave background
evidence of Inflation
revealed in eddies

verdant

filtering sunlight
chlorophyl takes what's useful
and throws back the green

symbolic speech

each check to Sanders
sends Hillary the message
we are not on board

fighting fire

disinhibiting
killer-Ts at PD1
could launch a fire-storm

becalmed

full moon on the Bay
the way home's paved in silver
but the sails hang slack

passe

last century's bridge
a graceless erector set
suffers by contrast

karma

no tears for DiFi
bitten by the spy-monster
she'd raised as a pet

abetting

sugary nectar
bribes bees to carry gametes
where the plant can't go

indelible II

Santorum's foul taint
adheres to Paterno's name
Sandusky's imprint

public servant

now, Feinstein's outraged
when her spies turn back on her
public? sauve qui peut!

auspicious omens

Pope Francis may let
divorcees take communion
Cuomo's stock's rising

indelible

Jerry Sandusky
stained Paterno's legacy
with Santorum's taint

no honor among thieves

who'll stand with Feinstein?
a sex-worker crying "rape!"
gets more sympathy

...the illusion that it's been achieved"

on MDMA
conspiratorial grins
dispense with language

unmanly

skulking Aegisthus
leaving Helen to Paris
usurped the king's bed

asleep

non-prosecution
might as well be collusion
 by the SEC

shocked! I am shocked!

Feinstein's got less cred
when her own spies spy on her
than whores crying "rape"

bad guest

an outrage to Zeus!
Paris bedded his host's wife
tragedy ensued

unexamined

deep hypocrisy
American carnivores
shun slaughterhouses

turn it down!

God's laser-cutter
etched aseret haDibrot
right through the tablets

define "best", define "possible"

Voltaire (in "Candide")
satirized Gottfried Leibnitz
best possible book!

new age VI

a single base-pair
myostastin receptor
such a tempting hack

form without substance

Rostand's "Cyrano"
satirized vapid poets
with nothing to say

golden mean

hyponatremic
at the marathon's finish
stupid way to die

new age V

the age of CRISPR
so tempting to hack germ-lines
as if we were gods

new age IV

such a small repair
sickle-cell anemia
long slippery slope

new age III

proceed with caution!
germ-line modification
seem like playing God

new age II

brave new CRISPR world!
germ-line modifications
need serious thought

new age

now that CRISPR's here
zinc-finger nucleases
may be obsolete

form/function

cellphones for haiku
sonnets demand something more
I need an iPad?

why?

since Jeremiah
exile's read as evidence:
who's loved, gets chastised

allegory

expounding Buber
through the metaphor of sex
new Shir haShirim

groundswell

Occupy WallStreet
elected deBlasio
next...Warren? Sanders?

shameless

"strategic default"
no shame adheres to bankers
who don't honor debts

attention-span

unconscious filters
addicted to novelty
green-screen the backgrounds

data compression

unconscious filters
create our reality
what's constant's tossed out

it's who counts the votes

one hundred percent!
North Koreans vote for Kim*

*under coercion

bigot

if it's not "Muslims"
general Jerry Boykin
blames it on "the Jews"

values

old-school Jesuits
Jerry Brown and pope Francis
stress education

hot goods

smuggling marmosets
after the mastectomy
refills the brassiere

adrift II

the belt of Time slipped
stranded in eternity
slick with mingled sweat

adrift

the belt of Time slipped
stranding two sweat-slick lovers
in eternity

SLAPP

Andrew Abeyta
for his frivolous law suit
got stuck with the tab

dupe

George W. Bush
gazing into Putin's eyes
saw what he wanted

disorienting

Orion's scabbard
from south of the equator
oddly tumescent

policy ideas

tax "carried interest"
like any other income!
Dave Camp shows some balls

changes

ongoing Reform
since Yochanan ben Zakkai
plus c'est la meme chose

jejeune

senator Sanders
denies Hillary's the one
to lead us forward

leitmotif

Poe's "bust of Pallas"
evokes Athena watching
the suitors' death-scene

ominous

a god in bird's form
brings Odysseus counsel
but just drives Poe mad

gritless

Governor Palin
quit once the Press looked elsewhere
tough as a blanc mange

irrational II

abusing steroids
leads to violent outbursts
Putin's my witness

ethnic cleansing?

"urban renewal"
drive Uighurs out of Kashgar
fueling rebellion

rodef dam

long before Hamlet
Orestes knew that vengeance
was a son's duty

bubble

"even dead cats bounce"
if they fall from high enough
BitCoin's day is done

amateur hour

Texas-sized ego
side-lined LBJ's top brass
real Cowboy-in-Chief

sold!

the Wall Street Journal
prostituted its good name
to Rupert Murdoch

penitent

the morning after
if you've done Mardi Gras right
Lent starts hungover

influence

Hillary Clinton
sold influence to WalMart
in Bill's StateHouse days

freed

freeze-frame: burning bush
Moshe steps outside of Time
ablaze, unconsumed

thug

sell him Crimea!
if Putin's a man at all
he'll pay market rate

no guarantees

trusting in mt. Gox
outside the FDIC
one takes one's chances

sanctions' bite

much turns on Norway
can it replace Russian gas
to heat German homes?

madness

I suspect 'roid rage
Putin's abnormally buff
and irrational

I and Thou

real intimacy
beyond transactional sex
points to Buber's God

legal person

just like Christ's kingdom
Apple's tax residency
isn't of this world

testosterone poisoning

thinking with his cock
Putin's adventurism
could launch WWIII

avodat haLev

all shades of Reform
benZakkai endorsed changes
that ain't from Sinai

decisive

Dolon's severed head
rolled--still speaking--in the dust
"clemency denied"

treat the brain, shape the mind

existential dread
diminished by LSD
warrants more study

hypocrisy

new Monroe Doctrine
in Cyrillic characters
has U.S. outraged

the wind rises

ephemeral art
Miyaaki's ode to Flight
can't but end in Death

capone

Reagan's War on Drugs
ended ten years of declines
in urban crime-rates

DonJon IV

translated to film
Martin Buber's "I and Thou"
comes out as "Don Jon"

who's enforcing?

Naples' dog owners
will be hounded and punished
if they don't scoop poop

despot II

Egypt's al-Sisi
invites voters to queue up
so he can shoot them

DonJon III

Gordon-Levitt's film
applies Buber's I and Thou
to the hook-up scene

in the image

b'Tzelem's challenge
recognizing the Divine
in one's beloved's face

Alabama II

dead men tell no tales
the Alabama's SEAL guards
knew more than they should?

despot

Egypt's al-Sisi
invites dissidents to vote
so he can shoot them

consequences

decapitating
the Sinaloa Cartel
goads his heirs to fight

sold!

time to sell FaceBook?
Apple's small acquistiions
make sense, not headlines

teleology

CreationScience
proved that T. Rex had short arms
so he can't jack off

biological detection

Gambian pouched rats
diagnose TB from spit
and work for peanuts

Buber's roots

for Martin Buber
encounters with the Divine
came each night in bed

DonJon II

Buber's "I and Thou"
through Joseph Gordon-Levitt
came out as "Don Jon"

Alabama I

Maersk Alabama
spy cover-up? or rough sex?
two freighter guards dead

playing for honor

hotly contested
loser keeps Justin Bieber
Olympic hockey

recognition scene

one dog and one nurse
once he's back in Ithaka
finger the hero

DonJon I

sex as metaphor
Martin Buber's "I and Thou"
runs throughout "Don Jon"

boundaries

politics intrudes
"languages" are dialects
that have raised armies

orientation

playing with their heads
zoom in while dollying out
makes the background loom

Ukraine I

who's next in the role?
Putin's puppet in Kiev
dropped his sword and fled

reference frame

the rest of your life
started an instant ago
'til now, preamble

warped

one eye on the polls
Charles Hynes pursued convictions
rather than Justice