unindicted co-conspirators

methanogenic
symbiotes in ungulates
stoke up the Greenhouse

deranged

Paul Krugman observed
Precious Bodily Fluids
obsess Donald Trump

perverse consequences

Anwar Awlaki
blackmailed by our FBI
grew immoderate

this is the place!

sunset on solstice
TransAmerica's gnomen
just misses Scott's tub

obsessive

Paul Krugman observed
Precious Bodily Fluids
obsess Donald Trump

no fix

Rahm Emanuel
underwrites cops' violence
but won't prosecute

in the air

unseemly display
Putin and Trump so in love
they should get a room

motivational

Macbeth's ambition
in the guise of woman's hands
dragged him by the balls

mask of ambition

Botox overdose
Lady Macbeth's face was dead
acts before its time

shell game

to evade taxes
Allergan purchased Pfizer
with Pfizer's money

false metric

the cult of Mammon
gives Trump credibility
with the gullible

buying votes

farmers on the dole
the real Earl Butz legacy
a plague of cheap corn

incentive structure

punitive drinking
keeps Americans in line
(Russians, not so much)

coming into focus

Justice Scalia
disinhibited with age
shows his bigotry

distraction

engrossed in his 'phone
as the hottie slips away
blinded by the light

shifting goals

Narendra Modi
wants what California got
in 1980

going negative

Rubio's campaign
surfs a wave a revulsion
"anyone but Cruz"

living on the edge

were it to collapse
the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
would swamp Bangladesh

perverse

half a trillion bucks
subsidizing fossil fuels
tip for the hangman

justice is blind

Rahm Emanuel
gets no special deference
from Loretta Lynch

crank

Lysenkoism
would warm James Imhofe's heart
state-sponsored bullshit

mercenary

George Armstrong Custer
sympathized with slaveholders
war was just his trade

the tempest

a blizzard of clothes
flies on a storm of hormones
tempestuous youth

inflation

sorority girls
melt at a clever haiku
their moms want sonnets

thug

Michael Mukasey
sought psychiatric gulags
to duck due process

clown

Donald Trump's embroiled
in a lawsuit with Bozo
"trademark infringement"

for everything there is a time

George Soros accepts
death--when his passions are spent
just not yet...not yet

that's entertainment

sham intelligence
FauxNews just makes this shit up
domestic terror

official lies

Lysenkoism
would warm James Imhofe's heart
state-sponsored bullshit

inspired

revealed at Sinai:

metrical foot for the bard

"iamb that iamb"

franchise

apathy has costs
if you're not at the table
you're on the menu

who would have thought

the house-cat succumbed
melted by solar death-rays
into the carpet

Hosanna

Russians are praying
Khodorkovsky will come home
like a new Lenin

tough stuff

tempered in the fire
Gandalf fell at Khazad Dum
to come out stronger

nanomachine

amphotericin
self-assembles ion-pores
in fungal membranes

formalism

Will Shakespeare explained

why he kept to this rhyme scheme

"iamb what iamb"

impatience is human

:

mysteries of Death

accessible to us all

albeit not yet