faith

Hegel's foundation
can't sustain Marx's construct
one more baseless creed

duped

Esau's still waiting
for his laggardly brother
there's room on Seir

indeterminate II

Orpheus glanced back
checking on Schroedinger's cat
and resolved her fate

indeterminate

Eurydice's life
as frail as Schroedinger's cat's
collapsed when observed

teleology

Goethe and Nietzsche

chased heroic destiny

not Enlightenment

midnight basketball

bored suburban youth
Minnesota's Somalis
staff global Jihad

relativism II

Nietzsche's heroic
project to exalt the self
looked evil to Kant

relativists

Enlightenment's harsh!
slave-holders embraced Hegel
rather than be "wrong"

ulterior motives

Hegel misread Kant
to reassure his patron
his crown was secure

dilatory

Sisi's government
did nothing to help the Copts
'til they were murdered

slippery slope

deforestation
means ideas aren't retained
as pates go shiny

relative haven

Shanghai investors
gobbling New York real-estate
hedge on Chinese stocks

dessication

cherished mold gardens
shrivel in Seattle's drought
Winter's been cancelled

business as usual

France keeps shipping arms
to the world's worst dictators
virtue's expensive

untimely

Presidents' weekend
the garden's abuzz with bees
Winter's been cancelled

ayn din II

al-Assad, berserk
wasn't hanged for Hariri
figures there's not God

oh yeah?

ehleh ezkerah
competitive martyrdom
responds to the Church

dioriented

absurdist vignette
Moses dreamed of Akiva
long before Kafka

toxic

Beijing in Winter
traffic jams obscured in smog
Hell, frozen over

the ox known to gore

Saad Hariri
still waiting for due process
Assad keeps killingl

ayn din

Benmosche's obit

makes the man out as a saint

despite his record

meaning

Supreme Court amok!
says laws don't mean what they say

and fish ain't objects

Teddy lives!

chairman Tom Wheeler

feigned he didn't understand

CommonCarrier

criminal enterprise

Chicago police

ran a local Abu Ghraib

no one mentioned it

Assad's long tab

Saad Hariri
still waiting for due process
Assad keeps killing

above the law

Rafik Hariri's
ghost accuses al-Assad
"blood cries from the earth"

the incentives are the system

shooting citizens
shouldn't be tolerated
bad cop! no donut!

foul!

Beijing in Winter
smog etches the paint off cars
stranded in traffic

philistine

governor Walker
values vocational schools
not education

toothless

"symbolic stigma"
if banksters evade prison
won't change behavior

plus ca change...

record art prices!
maybe it's not a bubble?
"this time it's different"

sure bet

billions from Macau
swamp Israeli politics
Adelson plays God

clever fool

Putin lacks vision
all tactics, no strategy
shambling toward chaos

swept away

HouseSpeaker Boehner
wants a pipline for Koch cash
to flood Washington

ripped!

st. Bartholomew's
subcutaneous fat's gone
gym-culture's martyr

can't unsee

jiggling muffin-tops
ecape Lulu Lemon's bonds
gotta go somewhere

blah, blah, blah

on the Senate floor
signs of intelligent life
get lost in the noise

repose

stray solar death-ray
seems to have melted the cat
warm puddle of fur

indeterminacy

Spinoza's FirstCause
worked 'til Quantum Mechanics
let Chaos back in

for those who have eyes to see

Moshiach's concealed

in soiled linen bandages

and Wolfson's bad prose

free!

autonomic arm

dreams it  quelled the alarm clock

while the ego slept

a pattern of criminal behavior

terrorists at home
radicalized by FauxNews
aren't just "lone nuts"

hate speech

our own terrorists

radicalized by Limbaugh

get special treatment

old-school II

Homer remembers
horses were for chariots
riding came later

Alabamistan

whose country is this?
In Roy Moore's theocracy
our Taliban rule

Brian Williams II

tissue of half-lies
a news-anchor came unmoored
from reality

Brian Williams

news anchor's ego
blurs the truth at NBC
tissue of half-lies

for those who have eyes

skip the Wasserman
syphilitics' thudding gait
punishes the floor

ripped!

st. Bartholemew
looked as buff as all get out
with his skin flayed off

security

a glut of lawyers
went to work as lobbyists
drumming up business

prejudice

however unfair
Ted Hughes carried the stigma
of Plath's suicide

old-school

Maatjes memories
herring out of a cow's dreams
salty as heaven

miscarriage II

Trayvon Martin's death
indicts a "justice system"
that gives cops a pass

miscarriage

Trayvon Martin's death
indicts a "justice system"
beholden to cops

it's wafer-thin!

desserts with pizzazz
doused in rum and served aflame
pique flagging palates

selective memory

CRISPR library
only remembers those phage
that didn't kill me

O brave new world!

Jennifer Doudna
found a whole immune system
in prokaryotes

passages

can't take it with you
even the coins on your eyes
pay the Ferryman

resistance is futile

Orwell incarnate
Samsung's "smart television"
is spying on you

short lease

Tom Cruise's handlers
make sure the women he beds
won't challenge the Church

haram

Scientologists
audition gash for Tom Cruise
chattel on the block

strange butterfly

under great pressure

Gandalf metamorphosized
beneath Khazad-Dum

mandala

today, in the news
a Ganesh carved of chocolate
all is transience

refiner's fire

under great pressure
Gandalf metamorphosized
beneath Khazad-Dum

rebirth

stones and butterflies
find--in metamorphosis--
what had been latent

latent

beneath Khazad-Dum
Gandalf was metamorphized
with heat and presssure

PTSD

are they not one flesh?
veterans flip their wives out
sharing the trauma

sweeping

cartoonishly grand
Michaelangelo's ceiling
spans heaven and earth

baseline

politicians lie
the way you digest, or breath
autonomically

exceptionalism

unvaccinated
enclaves of Somalia
fester in Marin

qualia

the same stimulus
evokes response in two minds
relation? unknown

grandiose

the "Julius Tomb"
one Pope's Eyptian ego
sought glory in death

changes

Decathalon star
Bruce Jenner was versatile
nothing's fixed in stones

a boy to do a man's job

Marshall in China
picked up the ball Hurley dropped
too late in the game

gradient

tidal distortions
suck your head towards that BlackHole
faster than your feet

screwed

the Malaysian judge

fucking Anwar Ibrahim

showed he's the harlot

legal person

seconded airmen
pull the CIA's triggers
who's the combatant?

grandiose

Putin rolls old-school
imperial ambitions
worry the Baltics

self-assembling IV

smelting Jordan's soul
refining society
scrape Daesh-dross off

self-assembling III

flocking to Daesh
the dross of Society
need to be skimmed off

self-assembling II

Daesh is the dross
on Society's metal
self-segregating

self-assembling

refining the rest
the dross of society
clumps up as "Daesh"

causation

Huck Finn's dead father
lives on only in his mind
causing everything

rat pack

Putin backs Assad
while both their economies
aren't even "junk"

thou shall not pass! II

Caldicott dragon
pukes a red pool of taillights
stagnant, foul-smelling

fleeting pleasures

flitting through the glades
haiku shouted to the wind
gleeful transience

strongmen

Chiang's paranoia
resonated with Hurley
kindred autocrats

suffer the children to come unto me

ISIS's Death cult
seems alien to Islam
that's more Moloch's style

where's Waldo?

Proust's mind ventured forth

while he lay at home in bed

like the Mars Rover

apostle of empire

Serra's legacy
earns a special place in Hell
Lucifer's own saint

solipcist II

what's "reality"?
if each mind constructs its own
who'm I talking to?

unauthorized

ANONYMOUS hacked
NSA's Grindr account
film at 11:00

idyllic memory

bowheads remember
oceans before the steamship
one heard oneself think

Perpetual war

Strauss rejected Kant
insisting that State's are free
to be barbaric

who's free?

as moral agents
Wolff deems obeying one's state
illegitimate

who will bell the cat?

Alberto Nisman
wanted Kirchner arrested
so she had him killed

family tiff

ruined Mycenae
resented Argos' claim
to Agamemnon

beyond the grave II

while the poet rots
his thoughts go on shaping minds
in readers unborn

in short III

"Animated Shorts"
not content to hold my junk
display volition

signal handling

until vertebrates
unmyelinated nerves
grew huge to get fast

thou shall not pass!

Caldicott dragon
breathes a red plume of taillights
neither in nor out

implied threat

Persian satellites
testify they have rockets
that could carry bombs

in short II

"Animated Shorts"
not merely crusty with sweat
ambulate solo

entangled

madeleines for Proust
drip with sensuality
in their school-girl pleats

undead

Bob Costa's facelift
the best that money can buy
looks really life-like

WTF?

superheroes wear
underpants on the outside
inexplicably

shorts

"Animated Shorts"?
Oscar category? Or...
roboticized clothes?

See?

sword-swallowers' props
didn't send back video
until propafol

great cases make bad law

militarism
resurfaces in Japan
at hostage killings

beyond the grave

Proust writes like he's stoned
but able to share the high
with readers unborn

grasping at straws

Punxataunee Phil
holds out hope we may get rain
to salve the parched earth

many-layered III

meaning's overlaid
on quotidian objects
layered memories

folded

madeleines, for Proust
drip with sensuality
in their school-girl pleats

rootless

sincere psychopath
because he believes nothing
will say anything

many-layered II

Proust writes like he's stoned
gushing, sedimentary
image on image

many-layered

Thetis gave her son
 the ur-Proustian object
repoussé, gilded

skim that scum off

refining the rest
the dross of society
clumps up as Daesh

vestige of a beginning

BICEP's evidence
vanished in a cloud of dust
we'll need bigger grants

teach your children well

Itchy & Scratchy
taught him how to skin a cat
raised by the TV

mission

I don't fight Fascists
because I expect to win
personal Jihad

light at the end

tax-payers in Greece
enslaved to their creditors
long for Jubilee

priorities

life is uncertain
if you don't make time for friends
you're doing it wrong

sold! II

Luce sold Chiang Kai-shek
to readers of "TIME" and "LIFE"
packaged like Lincooln

slanted

Henry Luce loved Chiang
way more than the Chinese did
but he owned the Press

bona fides

Mao's cave in Yenan
hand-tended tobacco patch
log-cabin mythosm

cover-up

Nisman's target list

included the president

when he was murdered

obscurantist

making up new words
might not mean he's faking it
if Searle were German

stuffed shirt

Searle's claim to be wise
would prove--were proof possible--
that he's faking it

vapid

Searle has convinced me
knowledge is just a mirage
he's a case in point

isn't that special!

embarrassingly
some teens seduced by Nietzsche
never outgrow it

depth

layers of language
like polished lacquer on wood
holographic prose