2014-02-17

seat of the pants

flying by weight-shift
lift tends to spit our wings out
it's all dynamic

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ire compras

mercado sidewalk
not just fruits and vegetable
that sack squirms and oinks

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relativism

"sink-alarm goggles"
bad spots look more like LZs
as I get lower

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engaged

brakes, bar and weight-shift
on a wing without battens
pilot's gotta dance

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tropism

bakeshop aromas
I hear my footsteps falter
mutinous rumblings

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ageless

in lothlorian
a vision of the World's youth
defies the ages

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thwarted

Wanda's outstretched arm
struck me down just short of town
one more great LZ

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tacit

wooing fair Helen
no one spoke of her dowry
that would have been crass

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sweetener


two Atreides
each ruled kingdoms of their own
heck of a dowry!

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dowry

'though he raised four kids
Tyndareus' male line
ends at Hermione

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symbolic speech

fireworks finale
nothing says "Peace" like white doves
going up in flames

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festive

pyrotechnic hell
erupts on el Zocalo
random saint's name-day

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gnomen

accommodating
a bit more sunscreen each year
as hairlines retreat

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holiday

Third-world cheesebox cars
joust with oncoming lorries
on rain-slick asphalt

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4-D

geologists' eyes
see narrative in terrain
all is transience

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Patriarch

Joseph Kennedy
spearheaded the SEC
that banned his old tricks

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Leftist?

Jay Rockefeller
understands corporations
need to be reined in

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stiff-necked

Time's not on our side
the "fierce urgency of Now"
is lost on Bibi

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the fierce urgency of Now

time's not on our side
Occupation's corrosive
to Israelis' souls

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tantrum

feet drum the carpet
hissy fit waiting to board
it's hard, being two

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welfare

millionaire farmers
reap most of the subsidies
while smallholders starve

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out of order

emotionally
Chris Christie's still in HighSchool
next step: detention

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Poindexter's acolytes

DomainAwareness
would charge Oakland citizens
to oppress ourselves

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class

Eumaeus' tale
betrayed to live a slave's life
comments on Joseph's

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portents

flaming scimitar
dangles over the City
Moon of Damocles

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put 'em all in one boat...

alliance of fools
David Brooks endorses Searle
famed for being wrong

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when you can fake sincerity, you've got it made

when roles called for it
Phillip Seymour Hoffman blushed
just part of his craft

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slime

Glenn Beck's contrition
for debasing our discourse
can't undo the harm

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coward

loyal to no one
Ted Cruz keeps a spare passport
for when times get tough

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pesel

iconoclast Jews
scold the maharal of Prague
who wrought a Golem

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rationalist

sir Isaac Newton
tired of puerile mysteries
unwove the rainbow

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non-Cartesian

rabbi Arthur Greene
taught where the Torah says "up"
we should read "inwards"

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qui bono?

who stands to profit
Smedley Butler laid it out
"war is a racket"

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priest-hole

afraid to commit
the "Mouth of Manitoba"
keeps a spare passport

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compelled

compulsive builders
the mishkan as concession
to yetzer haRah

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2014-02-07

omen

blazing scimitar
dangles over the City
Moon of Damocles

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bad blood

Atreus waxed wroth
that his brother screwed his wife
had him to dinner

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2014-02-04

have it your way

compulsive builders
the mishkan as concession
to yetzer haRah

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to mark the seasons

a Cheshire cat's smile
'disembodied in the sky
New Moon of the Horse

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deal!

Wildstein took the deal
thirty pieces of silver
nailed Chris Christie's ass

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accommodating II

martyring himself
forgives his cheating boyfriend
turns the nether cheek

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accomodating

sodomy haiku
twelve beats set up the punchline
"turn the nether cheek"

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greed

Rand followed Nietzsche
a philosophy of greed
exalts parasites

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tough nut

they solved what's simple
Leonardo and Newton
left us  turbulence

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patron of the arts

Rothko and Pollack
backed by CIA money
indulged their egos

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undue influence

WalMart director
aspires to serve the People
up as canapes

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tainted

hiring Clinton's wife
WalMrt purchased influence
with the governor

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driven

Pete Seeger sang on
long after his voice was gone
dragons yet to slay

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it's all relative

Sartre's human hell
and Buber's God connection
both of them were right

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be here now

intensely focused
on drift and perturbation
biking through the snow

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