2014-03-31

momentous

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

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targeted

drop the blunderbuss
CRISPR mutagenesis
cuts like a scalpel

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influential II

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

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bitten off too much

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

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focus

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

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influential

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

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just the medium

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

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is there anybody out there?

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

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too much

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

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panoptikon

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

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shallow bench

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

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gift- horse

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

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incentive

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

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inutile

atavistic joy
in pattern recognition
makes Sudoku fun

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possesion

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

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mission-creep

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

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not for this world

something too perfect
Jean Rochefort as Quixote
must offend the gods

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undignified

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

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evil precedent

Crimean Tatars
remembering Stalin's crimes
view Putin with dread

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rabid II

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

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echoes

microwave background
evidence of Inflation
revealed in eddies

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verdant

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

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symbolic speech

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

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fighting fire

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

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becalmed

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

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passe

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

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karma

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

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2014-03-16

abetting

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

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indelible II

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

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public servant

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

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auspicious omens

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

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indelible

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

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no honor among thieves

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

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

on MDMA
conspiratorial grins
dispense with language

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unmanly

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

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asleep

non-prosecution
might as well be collusion
 by the SEC

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shocked! I am shocked!

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

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bad guest

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

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unexamined

deep hypocrisy
American carnivores
shun slaughterhouses

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turn it down!

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

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define "best", define "possible"

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

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new age VI

a single base-pair
myostastin receptor
such a tempting hack

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form without substance

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

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golden mean

hyponatremic
at the marathon's finish
stupid way to die

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new age V

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

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new age IV

such a small repair
sickle-cell anemia
long slippery slope

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new age III

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

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new age II

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

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new age

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

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form/function

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

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2014-03-10

why?

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

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allegory

expounding Buber
through the metaphor of sex
new Shir haShirim

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groundswell

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

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shameless

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

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attention-span

unconscious filters
addicted to novelty
green-screen the backgrounds

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data compression

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

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it's who counts the votes

one hundred percent!
North Koreans vote for Kim*

*under coercion

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bigot

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

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values

old-school Jesuits
Jerry Brown and pope Francis
stress education

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hot goods

smuggling marmosets
after the mastectomy
refills the brassiere

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adrift II

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

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adrift

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

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SLAPP

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

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dupe

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

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disorienting

Orion's scabbard
from south of the equator
oddly tumescent

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policy ideas

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

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changes

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

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jejeune

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

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leitmotif

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

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ominous

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

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gritless

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

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irrational II

abusing steroids
leads to violent outbursts
Putin's my witness

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ethnic cleansing?

"urban renewal"
drive Uighurs out of Kashgar
fueling rebellion

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rodef dam

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

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bubble

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

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amateur hour

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

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sold!

the Wall Street Journal
prostituted its good name
to Rupert Murdoch

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penitent

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

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influence

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

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freed

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

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thug

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

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no guarantees

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

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sanctions' bite

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

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madness

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

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I and Thou

real intimacy
beyond transactional sex
points to Buber's God

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legal person

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

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testosterone poisoning

thinking with his cock
Putin's adventurism
could launch WWIII

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avodat haLev

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

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decisive

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

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treat the brain, shape the mind

existential dread
diminished by LSD
warrants more study

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hypocrisy

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

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the wind rises

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

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capone

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

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2014-03-03

DonJon IV

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

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who's enforcing?

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

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despot II

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

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DonJon III

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

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in the image

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

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Alabama II

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

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despot

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

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consequences

decapitating
the Sinaloa Cartel
goads his heirs to fight

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sold!

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

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teleology

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

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biological detection

Gambian pouched rats
diagnose TB from spit
and work for peanuts

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Buber's roots

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

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DonJon II

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

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Alabama I

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

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playing for honor

hotly contested
loser keeps Justin Bieber
Olympic hockey

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recognition scene

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

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DonJon I

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

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boundaries

politics intrudes
"languages" are dialects
that have raised armies

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orientation

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

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Ukraine I

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

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reference frame

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

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warped

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

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