shattered

we're left with letters
undifferentiated
Light has been withdrawn

no one comes to the Father except through Me

Bezos' vision

of an efficient market

is monopsony

soothing for a living

Parasitic worms 

lull their hosts' immune systems 

sing for your supper!

reliable

Sisyphus' task 

offers grim satisfaction 

at least he's employed

visionary

unconvinced by Searle
Elon Musk warns: strong AI
could conjure Satan

70

abracadabra!
wine goes in, secrets come out
that's gematria

more about Love, less about Sex

Douthat keeps preaching

more Catholic than the Pope

and far less modest

upset

imported White staff
serve Nairobi's Black elite
money buys status

found art

"wife and dog missing"
snarky bumper-sticker reads
"reward for the dog"

sovereignty

FBI's Comey
thinks no secret's innocent
unless it's the State's

cumulative

viewed as preamble
Biology begat Mind
where ideas evolve

shakhrit

tallying  blessings
aveoli through sphincters
it's good to wake up

attitude

blessing first cock's-crow
attitude of gratitude
tints a Jew's morning

beginning of infinity II

asymptotically
knowledge--though provisional--
ascends towards Beautyk

b'reishit

Water and Darkness
may pre-exist Creation
if one reads closely

gadfly

two shots to the head
put an end to Gary Webb
funny "suicide"

thuggery in blue

civil forfeiture
incentivizes arrests
where there is no case

beginning of infinity

"bad philosophy"
impedes the growth of knowledge
according to Deutsch

Newton's lie

G's not a constant
some days, the mat won't let go
the boulders mock me

two that are one

Epictetus' soul
carried a well-preserved corpse
'til they parted ways

dead end

string theory fails
that which can't be falsified
isn't even wrong

opportunists

polysaccarides
that we can't digest ourselves
feed methanogens

yen flight

HongKongers who can
export wealth to Canada
while Beijing plays rough

unbalanced

"chainsaw Al" Dunlap
knows psychopaths rule the world
he's their poster-child

theocrat

Savonarola
expelled the Jews of Florence
and strangled all art

emigre

even his tiger
has fled from Putin's Russia
sanctions are biting

causation II

if--upon a heath--
I chance on a Creator
who created Him?

causation

Paley recursion
won't I need a creator
for that Creator?

the other white meat

stuffed, roasted boar's head
makes a banquet more festive
vegans flee, screaming

sukkhot

Time for Qohelet
and time for not Qohelet
mustn't get morose

cusp

early adopters
teeter between cutting edge
and buyers' remorse

Pavlov's kitchen

even when it's crap
saltshakers of MSG
make food addictive

dismal science

evaluating
integrals of Fear and Greed
the math's a fig-leaf

cross-over

Berkeley's best taco
pork belly at JoshuYa
shames the "Mexicans"

bully

"unAmerican"?
Bibi rants like a birther
as deranged as Rush

galut

Cuba buys good will
exporting trained physicians
who don't mind leaving

O brave new world!

WiFi in each car
Chevy, ATT in bed
with the NSA

disruptive

Trinity test site

revealed a whole world transformed

in one blinding flash

zealots

one forward, two back
French utopianism
begat the Terror

low standards

dance with the Devil
Erdogan would kiss ISIS
if they whacked Assad

deadwood

better arm the Kurds!
Erdogan, as an ally
seems worse than useless

to da loo

pentagon budget 

the idiom "flush with cash" 

ever-more obscene

ungoliants degenerate brood

nightmarish spiders /

stalk the Guyanan forests /

as big as puppies

undiplomatic II

Arafat's folly
unbending on everything
died without a state

undiplomatic

too proud to succeed
insisting on everything
Arafat got zip

alpha male

'though he's celibate
Pope Francis doesn't lack balls
he just sublimates

blinkered

most Americans
writing about what they know
describe the sofa

vincit amor

old Roman proverb:
a moray conquers all things
(that fit in its jaws)

best possible

from the multiverse
Spinozo proved this cosmos
was "necessary"

premature

twenty-four months out
no one outside Arkansas
knew Bill Clinton's name

sciatica

since wrestling with God
Jacob's pinched sciatic nerve
tests him on plane flights

backlash

irrational mob
desecrated both DeWitts
and the Republic

grandiose

paleolithic
diets weren't romantic
more rats than oxen

progress

lower-case reform
simmers inexorably
among black-hat youth

dominance games

every Yom Kippur
Jews show our bodies who's boss
rehearsing our deaths

why were you not Zusya?

to thyself be true
living someone else's life
wastes the one you have

How do you find?

"lesser included"

lets the jury modulate

what seemed binary

on a Grecian Urn

Homer depicted

Aphrodite with Ares

one beast with two backs

outsider

going self-contained
no need for society
Nietzschean wet-dream

superficial charm

Dale Carnegie's book
empowered Charlie Manson
malign influence

indomitable

ten years in prison
couldn't break Khodorkovsky
Putin should worry

punitive

winds drop to zero
Berkeley swelters like Stockton
must be Yom Kippur

indeterminate

Baruch Spinoza
sought to know the mind of God
but found Heisenberg

rasant

unlike normal folk
professors of cinema
may love "Jalousie"

wankers

String Theory fails
that which can't be falsified
isn't even wrong

gestalt

radiologists
recognizing Aunt Minnie
can't verbalize how

asymptote

according to Deutsch

Knowledge is provisional

but can be refined

unfree speech

sixty years later
senator Joe McCarthy
still poisons discourse

the fist

Xi seems terrified
he'd be the next Gorbachev
if he's not Stalin

old ties

Jews still love Koresh
for kicking Babylon's ass
Bibi lacks vision

flighty

afraid of Beijing
Hong Kongers buy escape routes
to the Great White North

Hong Kong III

Hong Kong's capital
buried in the Great White North
for fear of Beijing

lebensraum

fixing nitrogen
Haber defeated Malthus
temporarily

bolt-hole

as Hong Kong teeters
real-estate in Vancouver
surfs the wave of Yuan

Hong Kong II

Occupy Central
stirs up ghosts of Tiananmen
Xi fears looking weak

Hong Kong

students in Hong Kong
 born since Tiananmen made news
ain't gonna take it

ulterior

"please take a number" 

Erdogan wants al-Assad's 

head on a pike-staff

tuned

such a big band-gap!
to make a blue LED
gallium nitride

echoes

HongKong battle-lines
memories of Tiananmen
inspire/haunt/worry

fulminant

NextGeneration
the banner of Tiananmen
flutters in Hong Kong

standard rebellion

teens come home pregnant
fulfilling their mothers' dreads
just to piss them off

cell-connected/socially isolated

socialization
won't happen on kids' smartphones
it takes a village

decriminalized battery

I went for the fight
but a hockey game broke out
hooliganism!

disappointing II

where's the excitement?
detumescent iPhone6
bends in your pocket

freeze-frame II

Arjuna seemed stuck:
"what's the point of anything?"
"time out!" called Krishna

disappointing

flaccid iPhone6
doesn't stand up to hard use
limp in your pocket

bias

selected data
nothing Darwin disapproves
gets to be counted

Sisera's mom

archaic shofar
unmusical instrument
wails as if mourning

haChag

Time for Qohelet
pomegranate-stained, sated
we'd grow complacent

black record

Holder's legacy
decriminalized torture
damning epitaph

leadership

papal Numcio
sodomizing shoe-shine boys
moved Francis to wrath

self-important

we impose meaning
on an unfeeling cosmos
to feel important

construct

Dumbledore explained:
of course it's all in your mind!
that's where "real" happens

duality

Schrodinger's love life
as rich as Newton's was poor
scandalized WhiteHall

bad faith

word from the Mufti!
Hamza Yusuf calls "bullshit"
on this faux "caliph"

bootlick

'til Bill Keller's hanged
from a lamppost in Times Square
one can't trust that rag

peering forward

so last-century!
investments in fossil fuels
can't go up (long term)

unrepresentative

no one speaks for me
sociopaths in Congress
aggrandize themselves

freeze-frame II

Arjuna seemed stuck
"what's the point of anything"
"time out!" called Krishna

be here now

waiting for Heaven
empties this world of meaning
Life is for living

branching paths

while you were at work
those futures have come and gone
I'd seize the next one

purist

Paul A. M. Dirac
washed out as an engineer
craving purity

superimposed states

"indeterminate"
Schrodinger's relationships
left room for romance

phase is arbitrary

first day, seventh month
how could this be the New Year?
Talmudic logic

free

cut off from his past
Baruch Spinoza embarked
on modernity