force field

even on bald lies
journalists are reticent
to risk Cheney's wrath

guardians

azure dragonfly
makes beauty from mosquitoes
snatched out of the air

right-hand man

Dick Cheney's left arm
so far up W's ass
made George's lips move

bottom of Europe

over a barrel
unwilling to walk away
Greece is getting fucked

slim pickings

elsewhere, one can hope
Search for Intelligent Life
wastes time in Congress

foie gras

before migrating
geese lade their livers with fuel
cause for thanksgiving

ungrounded

David Brooks--again--
proceeds from bad history
to false conclusions

how're you gonna keep 'em down on the farm

after WWI
Black vets sought democracy
came home to lynchings

inconsistent

Justice Scalia

find context defines intent

when he feels like it

dead hand

Joe McCarthy's ghost

paralyzes discussion

of the Public Good 

the damage done

George W. Bush

second* to James Buchanan

*counting towards the top

selective application of Federal Law

why's this case different?
Dylann Roof's terrorism
out-killed Tsarnaev's

claywit

rather than the Truth
Scalia embraces Death
he's deaf to Aleph

getting up is half the journey

flying day ruined
his car bit it on Hull launch
Jeep Grand Cherokee

the horror

Baron Harkonnen?
or was it Jabba the Hutt?
Hastert's role-model

Darwin's tricks

with each orgasm
oxytocin receptors
cement the romance

unsupervised

Cheney's puppetry
making W's lips move
loaned his coup cover

confused

alone in the night
a dyslexic agnostic
asks if Dog exists

puppeteer

Dick Cheney's left arm
so far up W's ass
makes George's lips move

dysfunctional

California Code
"ornamental bacony"
catastrophic FAIL

easily bored

image compression
discards what remains the same
only encodes change

grounding

memento mori
keeps all things in perspective
grok your transience

everyone loves cephalopods!

twenty years later
new, improved Jurassic thrills
now, with cuttlefish

anthropocene

not since Chixulub
such widespread devastation
manmade extinctions

resourceful

long before Haber
insectivorous marsh plants
found fixed nitrogen

winning by their own metric

among vertebrates

bristlemouths in their billions

dominate our age

dysfunction

House Speaker Gingrich
tried to fix our government
like a stray tom cat

bait and switch

AT&T lied
"unlimited data plans"
not as advertised

larger than life

among his virtues
George Washington's modesty
was the most modest

hard man

driving his students
coach Hastert was reputed
a hard task-master

can't fight what you can't understand

as mad as king George
Nixon mistook Vietnam
for a pitched battle

chicken

bankers in Hamburg
pretend to speak for Europe
as a Grexit looms

side-business

ambassadorships
were sold to fund Dick Nixon's
criminal ventures

untrustworthy

first he's "Hispanic"
now Jeb says that he's "running"
unless he misspoke

changes

extrapolating
from a self that is no more
Life is a journey

frothy

China's stock-bubble
fueled by low-interest loans
masquerades as "growth"

score!

Charles Blow found his voice
writing on single mothers
ripped Jeb a new ass

dummy

flippity-flopper
is he "running"? "Hispanic"?
Jeb just seems confused

only the exit strategy matters

:

prep the printing press

someone's gonna want drachmas

in case of Grexit

apoplectic

justice Scalia's

head may yet explode in rage

over Gay Marriage

Texan

anti-nomian

Ted Cruz preaches sedition

where the Court has ruled

anti-nomian

defiant Texan
Ted Cruz preaches sedition
where the Court has ruled

movement, not progress

George Orwell's birthday

reminds us how far we've come

towards dystopia

frothy

China's stock-bubble
pumped by low-interest loans
masquerades as "growth"

above that

Omar al-Bashir
shows the ICC contempt
laws don't concern him

bigger

Einstein's curved space-time
dwarfs genesis' rainbow
awesome covenant

class war

H1b visas
put the screws to scientists
driving wages down

this too shall pass

sweating and moaning
soccer's governing body
voided its Blatter

shallow

governor Palin
quit when the Press stopped clapping
for her childish tricks

clueless

poseur at the bar
acts like his expensive gear
should wow real skiers

heroic

"Godforsaken Sea"
Peter Goss plucked Dinelli
from the jaws of Death

opportunity costs

hundreds of millions

play world's worst video game

"Driving in Traffic"

the problem of induction

deductive knowledge
doesn't get past 'I exist'
the rest's contingent

class warrior

Frankenstein's monster
donors and ideologues
cooked Scott Walker up

way too close

Hastert's proteges
got more than egg on their face
Jabba's saliva

retreads

not wholly useless
recovering physicists
engineer lab-ware

disingenuous

Rumsfeld blames Dubya
for the Iraq debacle
that he'd engineered

coupled

two bodies in synch
the motion of the ocean
transmitted by bone

divine right of kings

Homer's characters
defer to Agamemnon
'though--of course--he's wrong

material science

feet fissure and bleed
keratinized calluses
present stress-risers

escrow account

bigger than Texas
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
hydrocarbon-rich

messy

Hastert's favorites
got more than egg on their face
for sticking by him

nice work if you can get it

triple-crown winners
work hard the rest of their lives
uncomplainingly

do the locomotion

gait's complicated
neuro-plastic nine-month olds
work at it full-time

hedging

Rick Perry, Jeb Bush
competing for billionaires
eat from the same trough

faulty candidacy

the last time he ran,
Perry was a laughing-stock
but he's forgotten

he has not peers

Mugabe's step-son
got off for 800 bucks
having killed a man

clockwork

roiling the Oort cloud
each 26 million years
Nemesis cues Death

the book's cover

Nils Bohr's slack visage
gave no hint of what transpired
in the mind behind

failed revolution

Robert Mugabe

treads Zimbabwe in the dust

hyperinflation

not from my backyard

Scott Walker's money

didn't come from Wisconsin

Management's asset

Pure Reason

deductive knowledge

doesn't get past 'I exist'

the rest's contingent

monetized

stolen by Gypsys
Adam Smith knew his own worth
on a free market

new religion

jackboots trample Greece
German bankers double down
on austerity

Picasso's nightmare

Guernica lightbulb
grim harbinger of the war
interrogation

tick...tock

twenty-six million
years between mass extinctions
hints at Nemesis

obedient

New York bans fracking
Texas bans all fracking bans
who's WallStreet's bitch now?

what you see

detector bias
bees can't see infra-yellow
but perceive UV

fugitive strategy

dispersed on the wind
clonal bdelloid rotifers
outrun pathogens

participatory

until Derrida
readers were receptacles
since Jacques, we're poets

free for all

democratic Right
everyone and his brother
runs for the White House

writing himself out of a job

the best sys-admins
never clear the same hang twice
they automate it

wrestling coach VII

Leia loved Jabba
like students loved coach Hastert
on the wrestling mat

of the People, for the Corporations, by the Lobbyists

lobbyists corrupt
legislation in the crib
like mouse turds in rice

the form

meta-endeavor
Searle studies love of wisdom
devoid of content

trophic web

bringing the wolves back
straightened Yellowstone river
Spinoza's Oneness

inherent bias

capital voir-dire
picks illiberal juries
automatically

illogic

:

condemned to limbo

still married to her mistake

sunk-cost fallacy

calibrating

in eternity

what's a life of ninety years?

fleeting memories

needy

poorly socialized
men needing community
find purpose in war

potential

glowing cellphone screens
fragmenting society
connecting the world

nature

Spinoza's Oneness
let wolves shape the river's course
without miracles

wrestling coach VI

Leia loved Jabba
like students loved coach Hastert
on the wrestling mat

wrestling coach VI

House Speaker Hastert
ranting about "Monica"
kept his own secrets

wrestling coach V

allegorically
Leia garroting Jabba
condemned coach Hastert

madness

Rand Paul's making hay
while the light's on surveillance
sounding--mostly--sane

bait and switch

seeking Sophia
enrolled in philo-sophy
found SearleWorld instead

asphyxiation

Hastert's fantasy
rent-boy girt up like Leia
garroting Jabba

wrestling coach IV

Dennis Hastert ruled
not so much over the House
as from the closet

Orwellian

Feinstein's sham reform
would empower BigBrother
to crush citizens

the name of the thing II

looking for Purpose
studying Philosophy
grave disappointment

the name of the thing

expecting big Truths
studying philosophy
one finds pettiness

wrestling coach III

coach Dennis Hastert
pinned boys to the wrestling mat
if face-down's a "pin"

consubstantial with the infinite

singular blessing
one Bose-Einstein condensate
of Jews joined in prayer

wrestling coach II

House Speaker Hastert
more than in the rotunda
lived in the closet

wrestling coach

Hastert's legacy
rent-boy girt up like Leia
garroting Jabba

follow the money

rampant corruption
Sepp Blatter's re-election
stinks of quid pro quo

passing a stone

pissing and moaning

soccer's governing body

voided its Blatter

nice work if you can get it

Triple-crown winners 

work hard the rest of their lives 

uncomplainingly

timeless horror

guernica's lightbulb

grim herald of war to come

interrogation

Potempkin Change

eight years, like clockwork
voters get that new-car smell
without the substance

it's a gas

for such fluffy clouds
the atmosphere of heaven
must be N2O

unpopular will

Dual Jurisdiction
Feds mean to hang Tsarnaev
in Massachusetts

better angels

"with malice towards none"
Lincoln rose above rancor
martyr to progress

there's room on the reality side

Pataki fancies
he can win as a centrist
those guys are crazy!

don't ask

tohu v'vohu
underlying Creation
unsound foundation

pre-paid

Alfonse d'Amato
made Pataki what he is
heir to Tweed's machine

extrapolating

unlike Spinoza
Kant accepts Authority
circumscribes Reason

Xeno's subject

Meta-endeavor

Searle studies love of wisdom 

devoid of content

systemic oorruption

Lobbyists corrupt 

legislation in the crib 

like mouse turds in rice

unrepresentative

Capital voir-dire

picks illiberal juries

automatically

icky

Leia loved Jabba

like students loved coach Hastert

on the wrestling mat