rose-tinted

the older I get

the better I used to be

subjective recall

egocentric

Rome or Marrakesh 

narcissi-sticks claim it all 

as background for me

loopy II

strange causality
for John Archibald Wheeler
Time's not limiting

loopy

if John Wheeler's right
quantum teleology
lets ends shape the starts

consensus

virtual start-ups
are worth what someone will pay
like anything else

Sold! V

institutional
corruption goes to the bone
when money is "speech"

qui bono

murdering Nemtsov
no matter who fires the shots
needs Putin's blessing

recursive II

the Talmud's Rabbis

smelling a recursion trap

posit the first tongs

recursive

an absurd cosmos
rests on a stack of turtles
where reason can't go

unaccountable

NSA's edit
left only punctuation
content costs extra

who rules?

diffuse sov'reignty
vox populi, vox dei
sired our republic

stark verse

artful redaction
reveals what's foundational
chumash as haiku

canonical possibilities

in Tegmark's cosmos
helium-filled sky-turtles
must exist, somewhere

the impossible takes longer

everybody asks
"is it even possible?"
translators' preface

traditore, tradutore

revealed word of God
can't really be translated
for devout Muslims

obstructionist

discounting TwoState
Benjamin Netanyahu
succors Settlerists

dark power

wind generation
keeps the lights on in Denmark
where the sun don't shine

loam

rotting plant matter
distinguishes "soil" from "dirt"
and bounty from dearth

wrong object

Swann's pink-fleshed seamstress

couldn't critique Vermeer's light

but she turned his crank

Boycott

:

pious hypocrite

Indiana's governor

champions bigots

forked tongue

Hezbollah leader

scolds Saudis for waging war

pious hypocrite

fine points

rotting plant matter
distinguishes "soil" from "dirt"
and bounty from dearth

tough nuts

Daniel and Job
proved Broughton's bona fides
as a translator

your roots are showing

Grossman's fantasy
blood of sacrificial rams
keeps Chaos at bay

many fathers

diffuse sov'reignty
vox populi, vox dei
sired our republic

difficult personality

Broughton's scholarship
informed the King James Bible
although he was snubbed

trapped like mice

the dragon awakes
a fire in the Caldicott
panics commuters

above the law VI

parasite bankers
skim commodities markets

and steal from us all

next

as the meat-suit fails

dreams of a brain in a vat

get more appealing

to focus the mind

GermanWings pilot
knocking on the cockpit door
regrets that piss-break

nurture vs. nature

suckled by a wolf
Romulus and Remus fought
inevitably

stillborn

the terror of Death
keeps some from ever living
prophylactically

seditious

Mullahs understand
SeparationOfPowers
Ollie North taught them

his own reflection

Walter Benjamin

forced onomatopoeia

on all poetry

for-profit

we have no system
everyone's medicated
an no one's healthy

End-game

escatology
motivates el-Baghdadi
burning down the house

multiverse

in some other world
falsifying StringTheory
would make it "science"

blowhard II

Kim displays vigor
with missiles, symbolically
Freud knew what that means

blowhard

Kim displays vigor
with missiles, symbolically
crude compensation

too tidy

gravitational
energies are negative
so...the sum's zero?

unexplained

stars and girls and shit
make up only four percent
the rest's DarkMatter

Fraunhofer

atomic spectra
once you account for red-shift
put bar-codes on stars

just right!

metaphysic'lly
this cosmos for Goldilocks
suits life to a Tee

old canard

archaeologists

finding tels without pig bones

blame that on the Jews

prophetic

Aeneas' shield
depicted what was to be
beyond his knowledge

yates VI

SCOTUS in re Yates
to preserve Sarbanes-Oxley
gutted its language

lambs

Kadyrov's present
three sacrificial Chechens
cop to Putin's crime

collusion

Ahmedinejad
Bibi's partner in terror
kept voters frightened

absolute scale

unlike the hadrons
leptons are fundamental
(provisionally)

corrosive

Sheldon's oily rag
to burnish Bibi's aura
burns Israel down

micro-aggression

nothing personal!
if you order in English
lunch comes with a fork

backlit

perfect BlackBody
before atoms interfered
Microwave Background

meta-lit

in MobileHaiku
archivists make their own sport
watching poets think

transience

as ephemeral
as a piss-hole in new snow
Winter fades to Spring

thuggery

citizens suffer
revenue-driven arrests
when the gang wears blue

tepid

Hillary Clinton
the Left's OnePercent darling
leaves most voters cold

quo bono?

Sheldon Adelson
wants casinos in Iran
delivered with bombs

dopplered

anemic photon
13billion years later
isn't even red

low rod

'til 1800
termites ran our atmosphere
better than we've done

wrong again

no special insight
that's bestowed on one's deathbed
lit Yitzhak's dim eyes

failing to learn

stigmatizing sex
leads to more teen pregnancies
price of ignorance

it's official

to murder Nemtsov
Putin's boyfriend in Grozny
dispatched the gunmen

null set

'til we go heads-up
we'll live with the iPhone's bulk
no one wears a watch

intangible

since the Yates ruling
tangible regulations
can't apply to fish

monastics

sequestered juries
find internet withdrawal
as harsh a prison

chaotic

ads, links and pop-ups
encumber the LA Times
website as rats' nest

empty ticket

Wisconsin's wrong son
America needs Feingold
no one needs Walker

loyal to his donors

As KingCoal's reined in 

senator Mitch McConnell 

preaches sedition

favors

HouseSpeaker Boehner

Sheldon Adelson's rentboy

on loan to Bibi

fool me twice

politicians lie

but they give themselves away

by moving their lips

packaged

the city skyline
swathed like treasures in cotton
pokes up through the fog

le mot just

Proust's ambivalent
free to say both "this" and "that"
in the subjunctive

Yates V

SCOTUS over-reached
to preserve Sarbanes-Oxley
deemed fish must be ghosts

excluded

negative image
"gentiles" are like "civilians"
named for what they're not

idolatrous

on a billion screens
cult of personality
Xi eclipses Mao

magic

Mayakovsky's coins
like arcane capacitors
discharge lethally

attitude

open to the world
still willing to be dazzled
by imperfection

backwards

White, geriatric
Iowa's irrelevant
as we look forward

pawns

Nemtsov's murderers
paid to deny Putin's role
are disposable

so little time II

lonely honeybee
servicing Scott's whole garden
must work for OldDave

sweetheart deal II

KennyBoy's last scam
exonerated in full
for offing himself

so little time

manic hummingbird
servicing Scott's orange tree
fills in for lost bees

self-focused

as he'd tell the tale
Bloody Sunday in Selma
was about Bibi

sweetheart deal

Kenny Lay's last scam
in exchange for suicide
got all charges dropped

non-prosecution

sociology
suits Eric Holder better
than law-enforcement

make-believe

Persia as dragon
Bibi dressed up as St. George
in his Purim spiel

nothing personal

Eric Holder found
nobody was culpable
where crime ran rampant

the state that could protect you from any threat...

in Putin's Russia
corrupted Leviathan
seems more "wolf" than "whale"

belated candor

discounting TwoState
Benjamin Netanyahu
succors Settlerists

im lo achshav

the terror of death

keeps so many from living

prophylactically

judged

parents (but not courts)
expect teenagers will change
schools do more than jails

hevel hevlim

transient art-form
haiku are word mandalas
drawn in shifting sands

great men II

Lincoln won the polls
Teddy was installed by God
and an assassin

great men

Lincoln by ballots
and Teddy by a bullet
saved our republic

when the gang wears blue

exonerating
officer Darren Wilson
indicts the system

the boy who cries Wolf!

twenty years later
Bibi's Persian Bomb tantrum
still whips the fools up

HumptyDumpty

the Law's compromised
to preseve Sarbanes-Oxley
fish can't be objects

who speaks for me?

Hillary Clinton
darling of the OnePercent
leaves most voters cold

letter to Iran

:
retroactively
signs of intelligent life
glint in the Senate

same old

Hillary Clinton
the senator from WallStreet
isn't about CHANGE

narrow appeal

Hillary Clinton
darling of the OnePercent
leaves most voters cold

gibberish

the Law's compromised
to preserve Sarbanes-Oxley
fish can't be objects

myopic

Big Coal's senator
insists destroying the Earth
is good for voters

temporary immunity

'phage mutate so fast
CRISPR libraries expire
each generation

primitives

hind-gut fermenters
'roos vent methane like we do
ungulates belch it

retrograde

Nemtsov's supporters
dreamt of a better Russia
but woke in Stalin's

Magicians

Grossman's fantasy
blood of sacrificial rams
repairs the cosmos

bad brother

Tsarnaev's defense
concedes the bombing's horror
but blames his brother

big hero

shot on GoodFriday
Lincoln still looms over us
undying hero

critical

Marcel Proust preaches
rejection of middle-mind
unless it's his own

visionary

Wisconsin's wrong son

America needs Feingold

no one needs Walker

indeterminacy

Proust's ambivalent
free to say both "this" and "that"
in the subjunctive

great stuff

facing suffering
Lincoln as theologian
dared not speak for God

remember!

Putin's contractors
pick off critics one by one
today's Amalek

perpetual war

ranting to Congress
Bibi demonized Iran
like a new Saddam

when Mullets go bad

Federal Court ruled:
haircuts can become hate-crime
when Mullets go bad

this Person's Republic of China

Xi JinPing's purging
anyone who's literate
new  Great Leap Backward

amok

Fish aren't objects
words mean what I want them too!
Through the LookingGlass

for the record

Hillary takes charge
without a RoseMary Woods
deletes her own files

paid

Nemtsov's assassins
would deny they're KGB
wanna buy a bridge?

stuck

Caldicott inhales
a red glacier of tail-lights
commuters on ice

potato, potahto

WallStreet's candidates
whether Hillary or Mitt
serve the OnePercent

above the law

Putin's pretending
he didn't rub Nemtsov out
like al-Awlaki

self-referential

Ursula LeGuin
to boost her authority
cites "The Deeds of Ged"

unmoored II

"when I use a word
it means what I want it to"
SCOTUS ruled on Yates

unmoored

five Humpties Dumpty
divorced from reality
ruled: fish ain't objects

drone

fieldmarshall Sisi
a paid agent of Gulf Sheikhs
guns down citizens

gutted

SCOTUS ruled in Yates
fish ain't tangible objects
I am the Eggman

nothing's fun if it's a living

who says it's not work?
some were born to pull a plow
some live on stud-fees

the usual suspects

no one dares mention
Putin is the prime suspect
in Nemtsov's murder

iron fist II

murdering Nemtsov
and the last dream of Glasnost
tzar Vladimir won

thuggery

Nemtsov's been murdered
Putin will investigate
and blame Zionists

whores

full-time fundraisers
too busy to legislate
let lobbyists rule

When I use a word...

gutted of meaning
SCOTUS bends law to its will
Congress is gelded

deflation trap

European banks
charging negative interest
pushing on a string

truth in advertising

Ithaca concedes:
"go to Florida instead
the weather here sucks"

everything is illuminated

weather aftcasting
the smallest details make sense
over one's shoulder

outsider

Oakland's Police Force
an occupying army
resides somewhere else

methinks

to a Freudian
Putin's homophobia
speaks what he dares not

count no man happy...

defined by one role
Leonard Nimoy--in the end--
lived long, and prospered

mindless

homophobia
precludes thinking logically
mental strait-jacket

reaching

projecting their fears
how would Gay Marriage touch them?
Haters gonna hate

non-issue

disapproving Straights
shouldn't marry gay people
what could be simpler?

what you see

defective affect
sometimes a great pokerface
masks a psychopath

long life and prosperity

Nimoy's out of here!
politics on this planet
are not logical

dead end

stupid boondoggle
Hydrogen as greenhouse gas
out-weighs CO2

hawk by proxy

Bibi keeps trying
to goad Obama to war
against our interests

Iron fist

Xi JinPing's crackdown
looks more and more Stalinist
with the Marx stripped out

sold! II

mayor Rahm is owned
except--maybe--one finger
by the donor class

anti-hero

al-Assad aspires
to be Syria's Stalin
Red Sheikh of the Dead

sold!

corporate cronies
have Rahm Emanuel's ear
and his heart, and soul

pas mal

lured out of her shell
luxurious butter-bath
lobster in heaven

epistemic closure

a tissue of lies
 binds O'Reilly's followers
mental strait-jacket

sync

the fourth Quarter chimes
every voice in town abates
counting the bell's toll

narrow lens

Oscars celebrate
all the Best and the Whitest
Hollywood talent

borderlands

gangs of wild turkeys
loiter in EastBay backyards
Where the Wild Things Are

leverage

Tom Cruise's ex-wives
were alimony cut off
could write quite a script

Augustine

grant me a calm mind
attachments cause suffering
but--please, Lord--not yet

amoral creed

temples of WallStreet
celebrating avarice
love price, not value

niche

Kant for pure reason
Nietzsche for barbed one-liners
Paine for common sense

privatized III

looting the Kremlin
Putin feathered a swank nest
for his retirement

privatized II

$400billion
may buy Putin safe haven
when Russia crashes

Mehlis II

Hariri's murder
laid are through meta-data
indicts al-Assad

spider's trail

through meta-data
Hissam Eid's analysis
indicts al-Assad

baseless creed

Marx built from Hegel
an exquisite edifice
on sandy footings

privatized

Putin loots Russia
waxing rich as She goes broke
the rabble goes wild

Mehlis

through meta-data
Hissam Eid's analysis
indicts al-Assad

pointed

Virgil's agenda:
steal a pedigree for Rome
disparages Greeks

one's reflection

too-clever d'rashot
explaining the text away
show it scant respect

retarded

weaned prematurely
suckling over-sized sodas
into their thirties

the new frontier

beyond state conflict
ANONYMOUS goes to war
with ISIL's bankers

carpe diem

Tomorrow's a dream
Yesterday's a memory
Today's ours to form

unreasonable search

you have no rights here
encrypted telephony
scares the NSA

Or Zerua

Moshiach's concealed

in soiled linen bandages

and Wolfson's bad prose

what's she hiding?

Hillary's emails

hidden from FOIA

violate the law

inflammatory

incandescent bulbs

like Bibi's speech to Congress

shed more heat than light

noxious speech

WestBoro Baptists

claim the do the will of God

Jihad of the Jerks

Masters of Law

"When I use a word

it means what I want it to"
SCOTUS ruled on Yates

which is to be master?

SCOTUS ruled in Yates

fish ain't tangible objects

I am the eggman

Yates

five Humpties Dumpty

ruling on what "objects" are

disqualify fish