run, Elizabeth run!

it's bigger than her
if Elizabeth won't run
I'll write her name in

can't keep a good man down

while blowhards sank out
Alex broke 11k
with a passenger

closure

high, inutile spooge
draws a curtain on our trip
the Slide window's closed

delegate!

Scott studies the sky
while someone else brews coffee
tacit as clockwork

up

adulthood's onset
the talent for sleeping in
fled with our lost youth

courtesy

to skip dipping holes
would just  be anti-social
safari-car rules

team-flying II

looking up at Clay
not too proud to pimp his lift
Pride's a Mortal Sin

on top

bright glittering toys
sailplanes flit around Mt. Rose
like bugs below me

fad

standard artifice
shaving to look less manly
exalts endless youth

thresholds

sticky transition
sleeping-bags stiff with semen
Summer Camp for boys

spoor

plainly visible
theropod tracks in my drive
follow the turkeys

timeless portrait

psychologically
Kurtz stands for every WhiteMan
power-mad with guns

oooh! groovy!

sun-dogs paint the sky
like psilocybin's onset
for the world to see

team-flying

looking up at Clay
I fly out to pimp his lift
Pride's a Mortal sin

Rabid

far up the Moskva
Putin's as deranged as Kurtz
and much better armed

war-leader's mantle

Bibi got his war
exploiting three teens' murder
to invade Gaza

remote masters

Qatari money
fuels wars like their oil fuels cars
no dearth of clients

idiom

Rahm Emmanuel
was rendered mute for a month
 by that table-saw

resonant

each on its own clef
the violins get more notes
while the 'cellos pray

memorial

Eid without children
sent to seek safety abroad
Baghdad's been widowed

something's rotten

ex-Pope Benedict
retired in obscurity
to guard his secrets

island

locally ordered
while Entropy reigns elsewhere
Life is for scoff-laws

hitor'ri!

realizing self
not becoming something else
you already are

incentives

Pidyon Shevuyim

"mitzvah gadol!" but demurs

to fund terrorists

criminal

Keith Alexander
flouts the Espionage Act
embezzling IP

Winner!

the rest are markers
in Darwin's economics
it's the sex that counts

delusion

somewhere, a picture
of Chris Christie still looks fit
Dorian Grey FAIL

Dorian Grey

Chris Christie's selfies
still show the high school athlete
from last century

anti-competitive?

over-extended
operating at a loss
Amazon goes huge

navel-gazer

what's Creation for?
John Archibald Wheeler was
his own Observere

is there anybody out there?

John Wheeler's cosmos
relies on the Observer
to create his past

resonant

targeted haiku
for a special audience
who do half the work

cyclic OD III

lame low-speed strobe lamp
sun makes lift and lift makes cloud
Stinson beach flickers

epistemology

can we know what's safe?
the "Problem of Induction"
dogs Russian Roulette

cyclic OD II

lame low-speed strobe lamp
sun makes lift and lift makes cloud
Stinson comes and goes

what's it worth to you?

inside Baryons
are quarks composite, as well?
we'll need bigger grants!

shady

Putin's new career:
 State sponsor of terrorist
still, pure KGB

cyclic OD

lame low-speed strobe lamp
sun makes lift and lift makes cloud
chillin' on "C" launch

descendent

plainly visible
theropod tracks in my drive
follow the turkeys

accesory to murder IIs

arming murderers
the curse in a dead Dutch eye
damns Francois Hollande

accessory to murder

Hollande sells warships
while unburied Hollanders
accuse the buyer

sanctions

maybe Ukraine wants
warships France built for Putin
but can't deliver?

transitions

not yet civilized
many teens need a girl's touch
to tame Enkidu

transcript

ancient DNA
needn't come from mummy bones
we each carry it

abetting

pusillanimous
Frenchmen sell Putin warships
to aid terrorists

expired

Russian billionaires
laundering rubles abroad
would sell Putin short

responsible

amok in Ukraine
Putin's pet has slipped the leash
see: "ox known to gore"

ox known to gore

Putin dropped the leash
his pet monster runs amok
murdering Dutchmen

AliBabba

Mao wouldn't approve
vast concentrations of wealth
breed revolution

vapid

makes your teeth whiter!
and your girlfriend prettier!
New! Improved! Buy it!

downstream II

rich in nutrients
wooby-dooby skin-care gloop
makes hot-springs bloom green

surplus capacity

can Europe survive
Winter without Russian gas?
Only Norway knows

demented

Putin's in for life
like a Supreme Court Justice
be he sane, or not

mad dog

Putin's dementia
could bring a world down in flames
with just one missile

passion

swearing in haiku
deracinated from rage
seems more "craft" than "art"

gotcha

"we have seen the launch"
confirms our fine-grained intel
blanketing Ukraine

inequity

Berkeley's dilemma
1.3 billion Chinese
can't live like we do

undeterred

Russian missile strike
murdering Dutch citizens
earns timid response

needs to be shot

Putin's proxy force
murdering Dutch citizens
seems to be rabid

hashkiveinu

the shadows of elk
march down to Pillsbury's shore
as if cast by ghosts

downstream

fouling the hot springs
nutrient-rich skin-care gloop
nourishes algae

gridlock

mere majorities
can't do shit in our Senate
so dysfunctional

greater fleas have lesser fleas...

vermin mysteries
fleas carry typhus and plague
but lice seem...sterile?

savor

canola oil gloop
can't taste as good as duck fat
on your potato

variations on a theme

mutated coleslaw
walnuts and pecorino
dress shaved Brussel sprouts

hostage

dogmatic FreeTrade
doesn't survive the real world
subsidies buy votes

buy American!

domestic biltong
circumvents USDA
and the airports' dogs

sold!

Wheeler's FCC
regulatory capture
kills competition

Tom Wheeler

former lobbyist
means to sell the internet
to his old masters

bait and switch

the lesser brother
Yoni was the war hero
but we got Bibi

holistic

still intractable
emergent phenomenon
"mind" is what brain does

QC

tossing bad pixels
between each micro-saccade
we rebuild the world

Pigouvian

no transaction fee
creates perverse incentives
for speculation

big deal

new phytophthera
the Sudden Oak Death Syndrome
no "small potatoes"

metaphor

"can a round peg fit"
puzzled homophobes still ask
"into a round peg?"

balance

'though their bellies bulge
cows starve without sodium
each salt-lick's precious

used!

plants spread genes around
on the wings of bats and bugs
whom they bribe with fruit

sunk costs, sinking costs

sell Florida now! as sea-level keeps rising there'll be no "there" there

roll out!

a rumor of clouds
galvanized the pilots' camp
last round of bacon

freed!

'til automation
textiles ate tons of labor
all unsalaried

of form and function

Wally fixed Clay's sail
"there's no accounting for tastes"
tres diplomatique

unknowable

Werner Heisenberg
smashed the clockwork universe
now, entropy reigns

urgency II

Justine just threw out
"are we gonna stop for lunch?"
it's a trick question

got it covered

slathered in sunscreen
like St.Louis BBQ
pretending to tan

down in it

at  Buckeye HotSpring
"BoyScout Troop lost in Flash Flood"
nags incessantly

optimist

since Slide had OD'ed
Kurtis pushed South to Walt's Pt
into the monsoon

too phat

merging anvil clouds
shroud the Sierra in gloom
monsoonal gnargnar

unsocilalized

Yev seems deluded
that he's asserting status
but he's just useless

anticipation II

CharPit in King's Beach
Theatre of the Absurd
"Waiting for  Burger"

mishpat echat

in a more just world
terrorists in tallitot
daven in prison

urgency

first priority
Justine announced it's mealtime
all the rest can wait

secure

forget the bear-box
parking Scott next to the food
chases them away

anticipation

CharPit's a cheap date!
an hour with your beloved
just waiting for food

card trick

John Searle's fallacy
reifies intelligence
then shows it's not there

you shall not pass!

new Horatio
like Gandalf on Durin's span
Tim Howard in goal

what's left unsaid

humor and music
play with your expectations
and what's left tacit

intelligence

John Searle's fallacy

reifies what isn't there

in his case, at least

self-righteous

Pinchas arrogates

to himself the use of force

that the State should wield

extrapolating

humor and music
play with your expectations
and what's left tacit

pig on a spit

rangers seem relieved
"glad to see you brought propane
there will be no fires"

internal strigil

kale--in many forms--
keeps the GI tract pristine
next to Godliness

allegory

"A Boy and his Dog"
with Hobbes' "Leviathan"
begat "SnowPiercer"

fame

da interwebz luv
Tesla's posthumous glory
the nerds' favorite

style and substance

the Woz vs Jobs
Tesla vs Edison
which do you admire?

Leviathan

sovereign nations
behave like sociopaths
each one, its own law

you shall not pass!

new Horatio
like Gandalf holding the Bridge
Tim Howard in goal

Gandalf on the bridge

Tim Howard's next job
Secretary of Defense
sounds like vacation

Byzantine

Haqqani network
as thorn in India's side
suited Kayyani

squeaky

a whole cult of kale
keeps the GI tract pristine
"next to godliness"

as good as anyone else's

the Right of the Kurds
to self-determination
is self-evident

ambitious

the new Caliphate
beyond pan-Arabism
claims Iberia

money well-spent

Truman's GI bill
buffered the Labor Market
as our boys came home

magic

between airmasses
groping for the convergence
surfing in the dark

there you are

drifting ref'rence frame
the future begins today
like it always has

Hukat

"kach et ha matteh!"
was God setting Moshe up?
sure, he struck the rock

thug

what's market value?
Putin owes reparations
for the Crimea

buzzword

pious boondoggle
HydrogenEconomy
just generates grants

you will be assimilated

Levittown's husbands
could go home to the wrong wife
who'd know the difference?

of historic interest only

"Birth of a Nation"
technical innovations
can't make a film "good"

for the sake of heaven

from little white lies
the disciples of Aaron
knit society

least resistance

as porn gets better
Japan's population shrinks
romance seems like work

cleansing

a salad of kale
like a strigil for the gut
just needs olive oil

ravages

keratin's conserved
what now keeps me warm at night
used to grace my scalp

what can be known

Karl Popper taught us
"laws" of physics can't be proved
only falsified

working hypotheses

Karl Popper side-steps
the "problem of induction"
provisional "laws"

minhag haMakom

not quite a pizza
Zachary's tomato pie
sui generis

alienated

living "Ender's Game"
war without brothers-in-arms
drives drone pilots mad

short-sighted

Petraeus' plan
empowered sectarians
to wage Civil War