exceptionalism

Cheney's so evil

Dante saved the tenth circle

in Hell, just for him

snark

as one's more mature

knowledge supplies the retort

wisdom seals our lips

minhag haMakom

 

Sex-Ed in Sweden 

discomforts some immigrants 

who fled repression

well read

long before Hamlet

Orestes avenged the king

on his faithless mom

confused

Jeb faults Hillary
for the decline of Iraq
as if she's a Bush

Keith rules

in Keith Richards' "Life"
the exclusionary rule
keeps expression free

select audience

"I'm a smart person"
Trump convinces nobody
who pays attention

29 million years ago...

without the fanfare
primates got to the New World
before Columbus

quid pro quo

since he won't buy ads
the Corporate Media
snub Bernie Sanders

the Party of Bliss

hearing only tone
Trump's backers dismiss content
like training puppies

ignoble

skulking Aegisthus

the great king's crooked cousin

gorged in his shadow

the shape of things to come

"Precision CastParts"
Buffett bets against printing
for manufacture

Ignorance is Bliss!

peddling Ignorance
GOP shores up its brand
the Party of Bliss

convincing

if she's faking it
blushing from scalp to nipples
it's worth an Oscar

shallow affect

William F. Buckley's
mask of civility tore
on Gore Vidal's smile

same old

much like in Iraq
demanding war in Iran
AIPAC bangs the drum

first cause

photosynthesis
even more than sea-floor vents
powers life on earth

indelible

Santorum's so dumb
even GOP stalwarts
fear he stains the brand

State bias

"one law for all" but

prosecutor's discretion

still discriminates

clown VII

:

braying like an ass

Trump accuses Obama

of divisiveness

ever to the Right, Hosanna!

Incrementally 

Party Chairman Xi Jinping 

ditched Mao for Stalin

blood from a stone

:

Greece took out new loans

to service outstanding debts

ever-deeper holes

outside the system

:

Politics of rage

Black Lives Matter and Donald

can't effect real CHANGE

no substance

:
Fiorina bets
that voters won't (or can't) read
her record to-date

lawyerly

is not "TopSecret"
as subset of "Classified"?
is a blowjob "sex"?

Durga lives

Fiorina bets
that voters won't (or can't) read
her real track record

on message

:
Bernie's unkempt hair
grows from his priorities
not an oversight

poisoned

:

the Republicans

having drunk their own Kool-Aid

suffer from DTs

tools

useful idiots

shouted down Sanders' challenge

to the plutocrats

let them eat cake

Donald Trump boasted

of quid-pro-quo corruption

aux armes, citoyens!

tainted

Santorum's so dumb
even GOP stalwarts
fear he stains the brand

go Donald!

Trump's misogyny
outraged half the GOP
crass as a BullMoose

outre

Donald Trump's so crass
even GOP stalwarts
fear he stains the brand

witness

bowhead whales' earwax
documents our changing world
since Watt's steam engine

testify, brother!

Donald Trump boasted
of quid-pro-quo corruption
citizens, unite!

ass

Donald Trump snickered
a debate host on the rag
can't be rational

Diva

:

Marissa Johnson

shares Donald Trump's appetite

for self-promotion

lawless

Sudan's Armed Forces
trade small-arms for ivory
cross-species terror

put a rag in it!

Donald Trump snickered
a debate host on the rag
can't be rational

elitist

William F. Buckley
served the Ancien Regime
against the People

Gore/Buckley

"Best of Enemies"
mourns political discourse
we no longer have

free!

soaring, exultant
surly bonds of gravity
gonna have to wait

worse than lawyers

ophthalmologists
Rand Paul and Bashir Assad
medicine's black eye

legacy

Erdogan aspired
to lead Turks into EU
settled for a war

seriously?

44th in growth
3rd in foreclosures by State
Chris Christie's record

divisive

Donald won't foreswear
running on a Third Party
hope springs eternal

send in the clowns

Ronald and Donald
history repeats itself
farce, then tragedy

what's the buzz?

B-grade movie plot
carnivorous hummingbirds
in flesh-eating swarms

unbalanced

Red-State radio
twenty-sixteen agenda
ugly racist swill

optimizing

perfect Speed To Fly
leave the one you're soaring, then
soar the one you're with

storm probe

a three-inch hailstone
falls at 110 mph
hell of an updraft

straw dog

Donald Trump's new gig
head up comic relief for
GOP's ClownCar

memento mori

keep your death close by
out of reach, but within sight
keep an eye on it

indiscriminate

$4,000
buys us one piece of plastic
from inside our cat

Ex Machina

you don't need 'splosions
to make a great Summer flick
just suspense and plot

crown of creation

bipedalism!
selection's crowning glory
I can cross my legs

conservation

creation destroys
demandin its pound of flesh
to birth from the void

sacrifice

all magic is born
of blood, sacrifice, and tears
tattered, torn and frayed

slick Rick

Santorum's such fun
we'd regret his pulling out
some gapes can't be plugged

best of enemies

William F. Buckley's 

mask of civility tore 

on Gore Vidal's smile

Citizens, Unite!

Donald Trump boasted

of quid-pro-quo corruption

as if that's ok 

Faux debate

brief day in the sun

Donald eclipses Carly

the morning after

exuberance

first TechBoom made things
then came the boom that sold things
now, only bright ads

for those whose campaigns peak too soon

except incumbents
frontrunner fifteen months out
just can't keep it up

loose cannon

faced with falling polls
Erdogan launches a war
against our ally

hard man

Donald Trump flip-flops
showing versatility
this time, he's on top

slick Rick

Santorum's squeezed out
from the debate FauxNews hosts
down the nation's leg

threshold

governor Kasich
squeezing into the top ten
pushed Santorum out

clown V

stupid orange hair
embroils Donald with Bozo
"trademark infringement"

filthy habit

pact with the Devil
smoking for the nicotine
dying of the tar

usurper

I.S.I bestowed
the mantle of the Prophet
on mullah Omar

clown IV

BOZO SUES DONALD!
enjoins stupid orange hair
"trademark infringement"

private servants

GOP hopefuls
licking the Koch brothers' hooves
serve Mammon, not God

liberty betrayed

el-Sisi's patrons
can't pretend our hands are clean
as he wades in blood

affection

McKellan's Sherlock
showed grave affection for bees
and one pretty lad

unprosecuted

unreconstructed
Jakarta's right-wing deathsquads
thrive in the shadows

clown III

stupid orange hair
trademark of Bozo the clown
ought to get Trump sued

utile

what cat can compete?
lavatory retriever
fetches the bog-roll

clown II

Bozo's suing Trump
for abuse of orange hair
"trademark infringement"

clown

Trump's in court again
this time, Bozo's suing him
"trademark infringement"

rose-tinted

bad relationship
in love with America
hoping it will change

construct

photon-to-photon
my tiny mammalian brain
interpolates worlds

drawn-down

Ike languished for years
in Hoover's military
watch slept on the Rhine

sinking feeling

as Greenland's ice melts
seven meters of water
buries Florida

great game

bring Iran online
let Putin gag on the oil
Germany won't buy

bubble

Beijing can't prop up
a stock market in free-fall
bond yields are soaring

fair and balanced

Stewart and Colbert
leave America bereft
of journalism

horizons

figure she's "normal"?
you don't know her well enough
by definition

small pond

:

Fiorina won

the junior varsity match

low expectations

sold!

Thomas Paine foresaw
selling out the Indians
would buy the Union

deal

bring Iran online!
let Putin gag on the oil
Germany won't need

simplistic

cardiologists
blinded by sodium's glare
can't see exercise

worked example

founding grandfather
John Locke, more than any man
begat the U.S.

scandalous

don't lend Foley books!
he'll bend the pages over
and leave 'em sticky

narrative frame

StarTrek and StarWars
competing mythologies
confuse the mall-rats

psyche!

Jonathan Pollard
pled guilty for lenience
got used shabbily

nerds

"we do not speak of
odd-numbered StarTrek movies"
insider humor

qui bono?

Smedley Butler knew
Oil and Arms shape policy
War is a Racket

when I use a word...

intangible fish
can't have any calories
Law-logic diet

immersed

Thomas L. Friedman
'79's last hostage
can't see the present

corrupted

follow the money!
lobbyists leave calling-cards
like mouse-turds in rice

out-classed

in Ontario
the river that eats buses
sneers at rubber rafts

heroic

America needs
Trumps maturity and class
and fabulous hair

grappling

Rubio's late thrust

going into the debates

squeezed santorum out

wing nut

courting Jewish votes
Huckabee's hyperbole
smacks of psychosis

nasty, brutish and short

privatizing force
Florida's Stand Your Ground law
guts Leviathan

3 1/2 minutes

extensively coached
Michael Dunn pled "self defense"
to obscure murder

gravitas

Bozo's orange hair
conveys dignity and class
Trump's can't aspire to

out in front

endorsing Gay Rights
Obama in Nairobi
found little traction

since I've been loving you

Julie's voice shimmers
on Dan's maelstrom of Guitar
"...I've been Loving You"

EoByblos

like Homer's poems
the Qur'an's the oldest text
known in Arabic

encoded

"emperor Nero"
spelled out in Hebrao-Greek
tallies 6-6-6

ungrounded

awkward static charge
my Flytec yowls like a Ball
'cause I wiped the screen

two-neck

shimmering twelve-string
sets up the melodic break
Song Remains the Same

fallible senses

bodies resonate
in ways minds can never know
the rest requires faith

long shadow

"alternative rock"
the mighty Led Zeppelin
define's where it's not

there's always a bigger fish

peckish sea-monster
ate a three-meter GreatWhite
and its transponder