vayera

God dwells with migrants

Lot's gated community

stank in His nostrils

gloved fist

Xi plays Stalin's game
rhetoric of the old Left
masks hard Right actions

unswerving

way past design specs
Goss went back for Dinelli
best man for the job

recalibrated

rejuvenation
half a million Syrians
think Detroit sounds good

replicator

Spiegelman's Monster
devours all nucleotides
seductive dead-end

uninspired

four-chord progressions
thuddingly predictable
dead-end garage band

amorphous

what Dan calls "bad jazz"
insipid Phish jam noodling
weirdly contagious

crazy

the same idiots
who think Obama's Muslim
think Trump's a Christian

a vast RightWing conspiracy

1946
Hoover anointed Nixon
to fight the NewDeal

evidence requires looking back

Axelrod's tag-line
"looking forwards and not back"
forsakes Rule of Law

feel the awe

crescent moon setting
beside the campanile
Neil Young rocks the Greek

pleasure

press the right button
the eye of the beholder
rolls back in her head

in the flow

relativity
showed simultaneity
can't mean what you thought

low rod

"likable enough"
Hillary's breakout debate
low expectations

simplifying

sailing in 3-space
six cardinal directions
defy paper maps

blindspot

meta-coverage
media's most sacred cow
is the Media

spy in your pocket

InternetOfThings
harsh satirical treatment
DeepnessInTheSky

executive summary

writing his obit
Jeffrey Marcy's whole career
will have been scandal

again

new sicarii
view Israelis as Romans
provoke the legions

aspirational

Lincoln championed
one nation, undivided
contrary to fact

abomination

Secretary Chu
knew coal's best left in the ground
stably sequestered

capacity

dream-time and drive-time
defragmenting memory
oils the processor

outta here

Schengen's closest shore
Syrians flock to Lesbos
not for the club scene

abuse of authority

heavenly bodies
under Jeffrey Marcy's gaze
called in the police

sovereign problem

Perpetual Peace
would require that States submit
unconscienably

bogus Leftist

Human Rights lawyers
challenge Xi JinPing's strong hand
from their prison cells

for naught

Peres dropped the ball
backlash from Rabin's murder
should have advanced peace

hegira

geese flap through the fog
languidly journeying to
warmer Summer climes

crafty

selective stock-split
Joseph saw his shares doubled
at Reuben's expense

nonsense

guns, but not dildos
OpenCarry at UT
the Law is an ass

ThirdParty

Reagan befell us
because Carter got BullMoosed
by John Anderson

thrust

lurching towards the stars
Himalayan mountain peaks
surf India's bow

good boy!

surely Man's best friend
lavatory retriever
fetches a fresh roll

involuntary

don't impute malice
where ignorance will suffice
so hard to live by!

fuck yeah!

too fat and lazy
to pick up his spent ammo
real American

blinded by the light

lurking in the sun
new moon as fighter-pilot
evades detection

naive

Carson's fever-dream
conflates Putin with Satan
stalking the Levant

unfit

underwear bomber's
Darwinian martyrdom
blew his own balls off

going, going...

moments before dawn
the last slim, gnawed rind of moon
limps into the sky

byzantine

Recep Erdogan
eager for war-time powers
bombed a Peace Rally

he fixed it

Before Fritz Haber  

Chile and Bolivia 

fought over guano

gotta educate the electorate

Bernie at the mic

rather than socialism

preaches Class Struggle

dive

free space at the bar
frosty women and warm beer
not for connoisseurs

when discretion looks like endorsement

Holder's DoJ
decriminalized torture
evil precedent

arsenal of Liberty

a clever gray-hat
might tap Putin's purloined wealth
to arm Kurdistan

aaah!

huge sigh of relief
after holding it too long
Blatter is voided

over-reach

Putin's over-stretched
liberty-loving Chechens
are guarding his back

telling blow

contrecoup trauma
kicked Deccan Traps flood basalts
into overdrive

it's no secret

all-mail voting scheme
Oregon goes retrograde
femails up in arms

no evidence of learning

Czarist ambitions
revenant in Syria
point towards a GreatWar

act locally

underwear bomber
achieved half a martyrdom
blowing his balls off

courage

"The Courage to Act"
makes clear that Eric Holder
failed at leadership

timid

Fed chair Bernanke
cites failure to prosecute
Holder's legacy

precarious

a House divided
over Boehner's successor
stands for dysfunction

zealot

typical convert
threatens his Muslim in-laws
with Allah's anger

looking backwards and not forwards

Salafists' Eden
ever dwindling in the Past
ain't Olam haBah

here today...

ephemeral art
wrought by Andrew Goldsworthy
memento mori

reality

to the graduate
the problem of qualia
is unimportant

portents

crisp September chill
light drizzle drifts fro the sky
promise of Winter

police state

"excuse the beating
I try not to enjoy it
it's just duty calls"

deep pockets, long game

the House of Saud

knows it can bankrupt rivals

with low oil prices

intermittent

thermals' surge and ebb
sketch a map of Hawaii
in cumulus clouds

autocrats gotta hang together

as Assad teeters
Putin feels the Kremlin shake
freedom must be crushed!

unbounded

entangled photons
promising strong encryption
still deeply spooky

inside woman

not for the Party
commissar Wasserman Schultz
works for Hillary

misfire

underwear bomber
achieved half a martyrdom
blowing his balls off

Deus vult

from HellFire missiles
Allah demurred to rescue
Anwar Awlaki

proxy

Russia keeps striking
where there's no IslamicState
aircover of lies

pet monster

Barack Obama
took the fight to bin Laden
past Kayyani's guard

coronation

DNC Chair Schultz
Josef Stalin's protege
wants Bernie silenced

vapor candidate

platform of hot air
Fiorina's marketing
sells what isn't there

counter-factual

two Bushes in three
love voodoo economics
father still knows best

probate

Yaakov, dying
disinherits Re'uven
but splits Yosef's stocks

neo-Stalinist

bogus Democrat
commissar Wasserman Schultz
wants Bernie stifled

web is what net does

emergent layers
Google's 'Web on Cisco's 'Net
mind overlays brain

microchoreography

self-assembling pores
bleed fungal cytosol out
amphotericin

ulterior

winking at ISIS
Russia bombs free Syrians
who defy Assad

waste

incandescent bulbs'
black-body radiation
sheds more heat than light

Quagmire

Putin's Vietnam
in Bashar Assad's embrace
could drag him under

bimodal

volkswagon engines
roar like Hulk or ace the tests
as you flip a switch

structural war

Kabuli Pashtuns
subjugating other tribes
can never know peace

institutional bias

give a man a badge
his moral authority
will evaporate

microenvironment

first-world diseases
cured by a eukaryote
helminths in your gut

limited publication

overlooked for years
nuclear architecture
shapes gene expression

select audience

shocking nobody
polls find Trump favored among
White Supremacists

it is not for you

typical chemist
foolishly looks for answers
finds only questions

milagrito

Jesus of Reno
walked right across Washoe Lake
not that impressive

whelmed

rivers of fog crash
breaching the coastal mountains
bringing sweet relief

charlatan

Andrew Wakefield's fraud
propagates like a virus
for which there's no cure

long over-due

we'll need something new
the Standard Model can't fit
massive neutrinos

never again

retrieval failure
which was it that hurt so bad?
tequila labels

it all makes sense

:

Carson's fever-dream

conflates Putin with Satan

stalking the Levant

easy nostalgia

Salafists' Eden

ever dwindling in the Past

ain't Olam haBah

prank

hard times at Oxford
necrozoophiliacs
take what they can get

traction

there's philosophy
outside academia
that's not just wanking

boys will be boys

David Cameron's
performance art with pigs' heads
missed his audience

epistemic bounds

past the retina
cognitive architecture
filters what gets seen

tyrannical

DNC chair Schultz
doesn't seem to understand
that we're Democrats

iconoclast

Ben Carson smashes
brain surgeon stereotypes
some of them are dumb

interchangeable

replacing Boehner
whore of a diff'rent color
serves the same patrons

ominous

boreal browning
as Birnham wood marches North
doom tick-tocks closer

no accident

Biden acknowledged
"dysfunction in Washington"
permits mass shootings

expiration date

:

Hillary Clinton

last century's candidate

bores millenials

ooh, that can't be good

boreal browning
as Birnham Wood marches North
doom tick-tocks closer

to mark the seasons

perverse pilgrimage
hiking up on eclipse night
to not see the moon

FauxNews

Fiorina's lies
got pointed out on FauxNews
Jeb's get a free pass

non-consensual

too many poppies
get ravished before their time
bleeding sticky tears

big lie

Wasserman-Schulz brays
Clinton's inevitable
but her eyes are closed

dark past

pedophilia
Alexander's legacy
bequeathed to Pashtuns

false metric

the U.S. senate
looks like a retirement home
for the NBA

in good conscience

now that he's stepped down
if Boehner would heed Francis
he'll endorse Bernie