scandalous

:

with Bibi's booze bill

PM of the OnePercent

does not feel your pain

of the People, by the Wealthy

acres and dollars
vote for the Republicans
the People vote blue

glaucus

Peleus as moon
lit by reflected brilliance
of his greater son

chaining the bull

Hera made certain
Thetis was publicly wed
lest Zeus get ideas

take it down

NSAIDs shrink swelling
prostaglandins mediate
vasodilation

stunted

embarrassingly
some teens who had loved Nietzsche
grow into adults

haiku by a robot

seven-hundred ten
seven-hundred eleven
seven-hundred twelve

allies

general Stillwell
schemed to bump Chiang Kai-shek off
"faulty parachute"

provisional

if you want Knowledge
be content to study math
the rest's conjecture

implicit

artful editing
both Achilles and Priam
meet their deaths off-stage

philandery

to keep Zeus in line
Hera bestowed Peleus
epic trophy bride!

shocked!

the Mullahs feign shock
to discover there's a war
on the Golan heights

not so special forces

Persian generals
in the Syrian war-zone
die like civilians

media manipulation

lord Carnavon's death
the curse of the mummy's tomb
helped sell newspapers

too early to hold one's nose

playing to not lose
some will settle for Clinton
'though they love Warren

yore

Lucretius looked back
on the plays of Aeschylus
like we'd read Shakespeare

the butt of jokes

Homer slights Ares
eclipsed even in battle
by Peleides

can't take it with you

beyond two gold coins
you can't take your wealth with you
and Charon gets those

breadloaf

dissolved hydrogen
ruins bells cast out of bronze
if your flame's too rich

disproving hypothesis II

Dollo and Haeckel
eponyms of disproved "laws"
got fame the worst way

disproving hypotheses

who now knows Dollo
except that his "law" is wrong
negative fame-points

Phaedrus

working memory
gets cluttered with thought-fragments
'til I jot them down

what is proof?

Big Tobacco loves
the "Problem of Induction"
to impugn Science

to look marvelous

Achilles appealed
for a bespoke suit post-haste
for the big meeting

purpose-built

function defines form
a plane wrapped around a gun
Warthogs ain't pretty

recoil

unlike with Ospreys
flying an F35
the risk's not to you

yeitzer haRah

if they were fertile
worker bees would mutiny
Marxists need gonads

too peaceful

in bee colonies
one's sisters' genes are one's own
scant strife, less progress

hermits

impartial jurors
for Tsarnaev in Boston
ain't engaged in life

something for everyone

Kant for senators
Nietzsche for sociopaths
Rand for idiots

parasite

had Ayn Rand's mother
been a pious Randian
she'd have ditched the brat

self-interested

biggest lease-holders
in Canadian tar-sands
all seem to be Kochs

stepping out

Patrokles turned heads
in his boyfriend's finery
but missed his curfew

filled with the spirit

wracked with war-fever
Patrokles missed his curfew
bear-shirted, bear-brained

what are the odds?

three in a hundred
fam'lies of five (like Romney's)
would have only sons

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

the stuff of boardrooms!
Lance Armstrong's psychopathy
fooled the media

direct pressure

rustic tamponade
an olive in the nostril
will stop most nose-bleeds

trigger, not source

summarizing Proust
haiku evoke memory
and attach meaning

globalized risk

bankers in Hamburg
fear their puppets in Athens
face revolution

as you do to the least of mine

papal nuncio
sodomizing shoe-shine boys
loves the lowliest

bildungsroman

coming out is hard

when you're named Mary Cheney

Vader's her father

overextended

Saudi production

driving the price of oil down

could bankrupt Putin

fooled again

like a CEO"s
Lance Armstrong's psychopathy
fooled the media

is there anybody in there?

back towards consciousness
swimming up through Propofol
re-assembling mind

greater Jihad

reintegrating
disillusioned Jihadis
the People's struggle

pouring bronze II

ingots incandesce
then slump as if narcotized
the furnace bellows

pouring bronze

at long last...showtime!
the crucible lifts and tips
Tom's bell's getting real

what counts

meter and meaning
minimalist poetry
dispenses with rhyme

MobileHaiku

hooks for memory
played back at will by haiku
neatly curated

BlindSight

BlindSight draws strange lines
between Theory of Mind
and self-consciousness

consciousness

back towards consciousness
swimming up through Propofol
semi-molten mind

linked

Proust's church transcended
three dimensions to hold Time
and what was no more

serenity

sculling at daybreak
poised between abyss and sky
flying in 2-D

cosegregate II

Obama can't grasp
the Unbearable Whiteness
of Being Romney

cosegregate

whose sweat underwrites
the Unbearable Whiteness
of the One Percent?

with great power comes great responsibility

Anthropocene Age
this time, we're the asteroid
decimating life

low-impact

wildfire abatement
when there's a break in the fence
cattle mow my yard

traumatized

back in Ithaka
the more he's like Achilles
bringing the war home

unsung

so American!
Millman Parry's senseless death
should be parody

JuJitsu II

cyberwar's frontier
tampering with IFF
saves building weapons

JuJitsu

paramount target
IdentifyFriendOrFoe
cyberwar's frontier

paralyzed

nationwide alert:

instagrammed photos of snow

bury the Northeast

sensible

"p'ru v'urvu!"
Francis modulates scripture
enough is enough

out of line

HouseSpeaker Boehner
usurps foreign policy
asking Bibi in

god-like

lashing out in grief
Achilles transgressed all bounds
like he was Ares

globalized war

Afghanistan's tin
toughened Agamemnon's spear
no less than Hector's

somehow familiar

"it's like deja vu"
Yogi Berra "clarified"
"all over again"

floating anxiety

waking unrested
dreaming that he'd overslept
Hamlet found no peace

endoscope III

endoscope nightmare
wasp queen's ovipositor
plants eggs in her host

above it all

Khamenei's outraged!
Military Advisors
play with others' lives

post hoc, ergo...

schizophrenia
garbles memory sequence
and causality

immortal

Agamemnon craved
booty, but Achilles knew
the song's the big prize

smuggling

honey-launderers
sell high-fructose rice syrup
like it's the real thing

eos

rosy-fingered dawn
kindles each branch she touches
incrementally

endoscope II

endoscope nightmare
the queen's ovipositor
probes for the right host

library of babel

Ashcroft idolized
the great copier of tests
Alexandria

on this night, we recurse II

recursive haiku
the cure for insomnia's
reading Proust in bed

bad currency crowds out good

American food
a plague on the world's cuisines
fatty, salty glop

on the edge

Caldwell and Honnold
claimed the first Fitzroy traverse
treading Bifrost's span

endoscope I

endoscope nightmare
cold alien proboscis
glides past my tonsils

rowing II

sculling at daybreak
poised between abyss and sky
flying in 2-D

plus ca change...II

hippies never change
dressing like their grandparents
but now it's "retro"

rowing

sculling at daybreak
a dream of liquidity
flying in 2-D

ayahuasca

the jaguar's eyes burn
like twin furnace doors ajar
kindled in my pipe

self

PD-1 signals
keep killer T-cells passive
"these are not the 'droids"

Do you feel lucky?

PD-1 blockers
unleash a killer-T storm
on targets unknown

fake

portraying actors
performances in BirdMan
just seem insincere

isn't that special!

not "some passing phase"
Kurtis' adolescence
seems a lifestyle choice

projecting

Proust's magic lantern
projects meaning on a world
that couldn't care less

on this night, we recurse

Proust reading in bed
the cure for insomnia's
reading Proust in bed

...faithfully executed"

evil precedent
decriminalized torture
Holder's cowardice

narrative bottleneck

just Siri floats home
as alone as Ishmael
to tell BlindSight's tale

Max Headroom?

rigid, unfeeling
Romney gears up a third run
zombie candidate

first wave

ArabSpring stumbled
the Winter of Discontent
resurged with Sisi

rounding the post

strung out through the week
challah curl up once a year
when YomTov comes 'round

bootstrap

if the human mind
were simple enough to grasp
we couldn't grasp it

Fraunhofer

under UV light
the Orion nebula
fluoresces gaily

to serve

too many cops serve
their egos, not the public
part of the problem

bounds

drilling won't fix it
we'll run out of atmosphere
before the oil's gone

that vision thing

Jerry Brown's passion
doesn't burn in Hillary
vote Warren/Sanders!

cloaked

on a squid's belly
luminescent symbiotes
paint out its shadow

oh, poo!

not so much a "food"
Soylent's more a catalyst
passing through unchanged

feedback

each inhalation
intra-pleural pressure drops
the heartrate surges

fauxKIng

MLK's estate
demurred to license his words
"Selma"'s half fiction

motivational

prey run for their lives
predators run for dinner
output looks the same

used

Scientologist
lashing out at "Going Clear"
do its marketing

Movet II

deluded killers
can't grasp they serve not Allah
but a cult of Death

anti-Clerical

in France, like Stateside
FreeSpeech can't exclude Muslims
that's "laïcité"

cephlie

tidepool encounter
octopus snatched a GoPro
to snap a "cephlie"

pavers

a kraken's garden
paved in ichtyosaur bones
hints at vast arm-span

whose eye is opened

one day, we'll be dead
the absurdity of Life
is quite the buzz-kill

Movet

stupid terrorists
can't grasp they serve not Allah
but a cult of Death

boutin

turkeys scour the yard
less a "flock" than a platoon
living off the land

slick!

ingesting Soylent
pornstars lube their GI tracts
prepacked santorum

context

camping reminds one
"only in Darkness, the Light"
that cities trample

falsified narrative

no one seems to learn
when Vietnam spat us out
no dominos fell

warped history

Tudor party-line
Richard III's crooked spine
betrayed turpitude 

purple haze

"and damned if you don't"
remembering the sixties
means you weren't there

rendered unto Caesar

sainthood for Serra?

the other end of that scourge

ate Jesus' flesh

incompleteness

Lucretius concedes
pure materialism
stumbles over mind

against counsel

director Brennan
defied his own attorneys
to obstruct justice

who's free speech?

speaking with two tongues
Obama stands for Free Speech
and HellFire missiles

grim

tenth spare-the-air day
BayArea soaring birds
pray for convection

la laicite II

shooting at canards
new clerics grasp for power
aux armes, citoyens!

Goa

mirror on the West
India's most Christian state
wants to control Love

pseudonymous

on the internet
nobody knows you're a dog
'til you hump their leg

fanciful

Birmingham, England
is--if you take "facts" from Fox--
"totally Muslim"

laicite

pretty droll, n'est pas?
French troops guarding synagogues
drip with irony

waste

Interstellar's cast
might have made a good movie
if they'd bought a script

no momement

the Caldicott's blocked
like a gut on opiates
straining futilely

specie-ous

hard-currency kooks
long agreed that gold is king
'til there was BitCoin

somnophagist

new anxiety
Ambien causes weight-gain
oddly, all at night

undervalued

"binge sobriety"
shorts the Berkeley Hills diet
like some passing fad

family time

al-Awlaki's son
wanting some time with his dad
got eternity

local idiom

'Flight of the Raven"
hyte "A Fistful of Herring"
in vernacular

aiming low

Gorbachev aspires
to a just and peaceful world
Putin seeks glory

off track

rabid terrorists
stain the holy prophet's name
with innocent blood

found art II

torn from the headlines
reformatted as haiku
DuChamps says it's art

gut and re-write

Xi Jin Ping's China
ditches Mao Tse Tung's ideals
but keeps the logo

dead enders

Syrian nazis
long after Germans turned 'round
still fight the Bad Fight

debased debates

not since the Scopes trial
have know-nothings run Congress
as in Boehner's House

attitude

New York City cops
feel unappreciated
by those they disdain

free press

murder is easy
Charlie Hebdo reminds us
comedy is hard

found art

"A house divided
against itself cannot stand"
                                        Abraham Lincoln

follow the money

as the ruble tanks
odds of a coup in Moscow
pile up like old snow

control

epigenetic
variation in apples
forces us to graft

deluded

in Mohammed's name
idolatrous terrorists
serve a cult of death

polarized

Bloomberg's legacy
culture of impunity
has made cops targets

sea of air

each cubic meter
of air weighs a kilogram
I'm being oppressed!

myopic III

drag-trawlers for cod
bulldoze the environment
parching the seed-corn

mission creep

'though he lost his ship
Ernest Shackleton came home
to adulation

cut-outs

Free Speech guarantees
that exclude the noxious bits
wouldn't mean a thing

the exception that proves...?

blood-borne pathogens
exploit a lot of vectors
but--oddly--not lice

microfractures

romances long past
some shrapnel they can't remove
educational

coupled

more than in Congress
Johnson's GreatSociety
died in Vietnam

unfree

Holder's legacy
persecuting journalists
wounds democracy

legacy

Jerry Brown's fourth term
confronts his father's issues
five decades later

impressionistic

moonset over Tam
bleery Winter inversion
soft-focus dreamscape

urban hazards

Bono felt all punk
with jagged bone sticking through
his leather jacket

unforgiving

wind-scoured boilerplate
rasps beneath my snowboard's edge
a day for groomers

tantrum

Kim Jong Un's screaming
U.S. sanctions are not fair!
banging on his crib

myopic II

drag-trawlers for cod
bulldoze the environment
burning the seed-corn

form a more perfect union

inventing "zero"
we repurposed numerals
cyclic notation

wrong utility function

permanent campaign
never time for policy
it's all politics

myopic

drag-trawlers for cod
bulldoze the environment
trampling their future

blinded

blinded by the light
urban youth who can't see stars
never feel the awe

tactical charm

Bandar bin Sultan
could charm fish onto dry land
that prince bears watching

anticipation

cutting horse manqué
blocking me at every turn
chaotic 'boarder

more!

ever more features
on a pool-table sized 'phone
can't buy happiness

two coins

Charon's ferry-fare
settles one's last worldly debt
more would be wasteful

photo-phobic

qualms about torture
drove CIA to drone-strikes
death's less contentious

Crisco

a glut of lamp-oil
crammed shortening down our throats
markets must be found

shearith

low-valent Nickel
etched out of Aluminum
Raney catalyst!

tortured logic, torture's logic

to redeem a soul
inquisitors broke bodies
in the name of Love

mastered

Bulgakov's satire
Russia in the Devil's thrall
only half fiction

persistence of memory

each morning, waking
old brain launches a new mind
where's ego conserved?

top to bottom

in re Ministries
settled: "following orders"
cannot exculpate

relationship

money's mystery
if you would buy happiness
spend it on others

paper-trail

memos back and forth
prove CIA understood
torture is a crime

scale

contemplate Night's sky
far from the city lights' glare
learn how small you are

anhedonia

forsaking all else
embraced skinless breasts and kale
giving up on life

ars longa, vita brevis

stuck in Disney lines
haiku about "what is Art?"
pass eternity

poseur

el-Sisi's grand words
while he guns down dissidents
drip hypocrisy

vendetta

al-Awlaki's son

wanting some time with his dad

got eternity

found art

torn from the Headlines

punctuated as haiku

DuChamps says it's Art

found art

"A House divided

against itself cannot stand"

                                          Abraham Lincoln

novelty

neither grass nor salt
cows gaze at the hangglider
uncomprehending

after-the-fact

Bybee's opinions
justifying EITs
were sought in bad faith

quis custodiet?

police in New York
contest civilian control
armed insurrection!

is there anybody in there? II

mostly redundant
minds construct realities
but think they're the same

used

sonic over-kill
the film-score to "Unbroken"
pummels the viewer

welfare kings

to hide subsidies
"depletion allowances"
torture the language

lemme rephrase that

"it's not you; it's me
I'm allergic to bitching"
I'm no diplomat

not by the checkbook

Julius Caesar
repaid his captors in blood
ransom breeds ransom

repurposed

mere ghost of Christmas
commerce has wholly eclipsed
the Nativity

priorities

whose values are these?
paying useless congressmen
more than good teachers

narrowed

to Limbaugh's dittos
Reagan's Manichean squint
passed for "clarity"

downward

no one wants rubles
faith in Vladimir Putin
keeps plumbing new lows

the arc of the moral universe

in "Better Angels..."
Pinker leads us in six steps
from Hobbes towards Buddha

compulsives

before we know why
compulsively using tools
to bang on our cribs

you can't win, you can't break even, you can't get out of the game

weighing entropy
Szilard slew Maxwell's demon
knowledge has its price

phototropism

fava sprouts erupt
shouldering the earth aside
straining towards the light

unexamined

we wear down at last
striving towards we know not what
most don't even ask

a child is born

sir Isaac Newton
born just past Winter solstice
brought Light to the world

the Devil can quote gospel

:

Pat Robertson swears

beating them brings kids to God

warped gospel of love

innate

upon arrival
unbeknownst we push the bar
we need the pursuit

be here now III

pursuing a dream
it is too easy to miss
the pursuit itself

enmazed

walk the labyrinth
meditate upon your sins
that led to this Hell

what is art? VIII

GlacierPoint in Spring
sure, it oh so beautiful
doesn't make it "art"

what is art? VII

question: what is fake?
every space was created
why is this less "real"?

artifice II

Disney and Vegas
two sides of the same dark coin
everything is fake

visionary

someone else's dream
instantiated as "park"
can feel like "Mauswitz"

someone else's dream

no rest, no respite
no escape from tomorrow
trapped inside Mauschwitz

utility burden

hey there, Internet!
statistics I want to know:
Disney sewage flow

what is art? VI

the essence of art:
project the mind's eye through flesh
and thus make the world

art needs mind

do bird envision
constructing the perfect nest?
only they can know

exceptionalist

snails build up their shells
unthinking of what they do
man is different

what is art? V

Art is creation
the only yardstick that work:
good or bad? just taste

what is art? IV

these Angelenos
build their lives like soundstages
cheapness and splendor

what is art? III

everything is art
all our human creations
bring mind into world

artifice

fake can be better!
couldn't see this from your kite
you would fucking die

what is art? II

so very meta
authentic reproduction
of a "real" theme park

what is art?

a strange paradox:
no matter your taste in art
love of craft shines through