just wrong

history ended
for Francis Fukuyama
until his next book

bigot

sheriff Arpaio
faces criminal charges
jurors vie for seats

uneven

William Gibson taught
"the future's already here"
in some neighborhoods

dynasties

we dodged one bullet
had Washington had a son
he'd have been Dubya

walking

somber caps and gowns
can't smother the excitement
soon, there'll be parking

Darwinian pressure

sperm competition
impels chimp morphology
shorts  never fit right

lean

lapidary verse
once all flab's redacted out
what's left is haiku

bias

red-blind emulsion
failed at photographing clouds
as if Heaven's white

monster

fetch a wooden stake!
after his sixth heart attack
Cheney's still undead

rude

blue jays mob the owl
avian paparazzi
needing to get punched

many eyes

Chadwick found neutrons
in data Curie published
but misunderstood

hard on self, hard on all

directed outwards
depression presents as wrath
compassion gets lost

barriers

safe from wolves and bears
within Scott's snore-radius
one just needs ear-plugs

compromises

bipedalism
seems weirdly precarious
"progress"? or "dead end"?

the clash of ideas

:

a real primary

cancel the coronation

Bernie's in the race

off with his head!

Duke of Buckingham
corrupting ye bloode royal
made free with his king

ground state

benGurion dreamt
of a normal Jewish State
not built by Arabs

blam!

where there was nothing
energy makes particles
and their anti-selves

recycled

Creation and Death
mass--like energy's-- conserved
Shiva keeps dancing

humbug!

Pilgrims in Holland
fearing comfort made them soft
took ship for Plymouth

what lies below

planetary core's
heavy metal components
could drive convection

convenient

Plymouth Plantation
settled on lands smallpox cleared
of natural heirs

the senator from WallStreet

Lessig's unconvinced
Hillary apes Warren's words
but loves BigMoney

rooted

the French and Spanish
plundered the Americas
Britons came to stay

shallow

Americans vote
for the tall guy more often
than for the best man

vapid posturing

anodyne platform
Hillary for apple pie!
Warren for reform

Reform I can believe in

Lessig will endorse
Warren--and only Warren--
to curb corruption

housecalls

householders in France
obsess on Polish plumbers
servicing their wives

deep pockets

MicroSoft money
fuels the case against Google
in the Brussels court

jacked in

tough as Rasputin
the Force is strong in Cheney
unalloyed DarkSide

mixed surface

moss, snow and guano
season climbing in Scotland
England's rock's blander

enabling

teach a man to fish...
and he'll never find the time
to clean the garage

tradition!

ongoing reform 

since Yochanan ben Zakkhai

it was ever thus

ongoing

Sinai's our shared myth

since Yochanan ben Zakkhai

we're all Reform Jews

can't fix stupid

:

senator Sessions

figures we can't afford vets

no one defends him

over-shadowed

:

unwilling to share

the spotlight with Obama

Cornel West went mad

the poet evolves

from Shir haShirim

three hundred mothers-in-law

produced Qohelet

first glimmers

in his translation
Wycliffe foreshadowed Luther
language informs creed

disrepute

Roger Williams preached
worship coerced by the State
"stinks in God's nostrils"

frothy

kids right out of school
make $100k coding
apps nobody needs

unredeemable

still unrepentant
Cheney advocates torture
and impunity

all the king's horses

What's left of Iraq
despite Sykes-Picot-Rumsfeld's
irreparable

monstrous

fetch a wooden stake!
half a dozen heart attacks
Cheney's still undead

stature

a Partner for Peace
must command a State's powers
'til then, it's bootless

big lie

each new FiveYear Plan
Stalin declared victory
dead men tell no tales

gut and re-write

Mao's path died with him
Deng re-invented China
but kept the logo

balloon

banks across Europe
charging negative interest
fuel housing bubbles

false-report

Slager could serve time!
culture of impunity
won't survive cell-phones

euphemistic

more than just good friends
lions lying down with lambs
earned every rug-burn

evocative

to History's ear
Hillary Clinton's "Stacked Deck"
conjures TR's ghost

jerk

Dell Schanze won't shut up
giving mammals a bad name
his parents fucked up

summary

CIA prefers
lethal drone-strikes to arrests
dead men tell no tales

personal chemistry

coming together
synced oxytocin release
reinforces love

folie a une

tragic comb-over
isn't fooling anyone
except Trump himself

put it on my account

ionized Labor
got charged for Management's frills
'til they unionized

the game's the thing

to History's ear
Hillary Clinton's "stacked deck"
evokes the SquareDeal

uncritical

Hollywood is where
they shoot too many movies
and too few actors

loyalties

David Kaszinski
helped the FBI catch Ted
the stuff of opera

Augean strategem

China's GreatCannon
redirects NetWork traffic
improvised weapon

stronger than Death

it's a fearful thing
irrational and holy
to love what must die

simplify!

from floods of inputs
only by simplifying
we communicate

lo kashah!

chasidic JetSect
too frum to sit with women
could buy out whole rows

no prospect of an End

Despite doomsayers
Obama shook Castro's hand
the sun still came up

justice

Walter Scott's murder
could usher in a new age
if Slager gets nailed

ulterior

Bo Xilai's project
got cancelled on the  Yangtze
he's out of favor

anomaly

the LocalBubble's
hotter than our galaxy
SmallBang's legacy

demagogue

grief rather than rage
floods Walter Scott's family
Al Sharpton: go home!

cuckold

what's he signalling?
Jeb marked himself "hispanic"
we know his mom's White...

unreasonable

warrantless data
the "fruit of the poisoned tree"
should be barred from court

culture of paranoia

J. Edgar Hoover
loved his agents young and slim
on amphetamines

marked

"life imprisonment"
if Slager gets convicted
wouldn't last a month

culpable

South Carolina
kept "an ox that's known to gore"
on the police force

stochastic

what are the chances
some girl he met in a bar
was his destiny

public scrutiny

upright citizens
seeing cops commit murder
publish video

an arm to stand on

Cuba's arms trading
pales beside America's
who are we to talk?

best representation money can buy

was it gambling debts?
no one knows why Laurence Tribe
turned to the DarkSide

boilerplate

Hillary Clinton

an unsplarkling campaigner

stands on no platform

bosom buddy

Duke of Buckingham

stiffened king James' resolve

and his privy bits

privy

his Majesty James
fucked the Duke of Buckingham
England chafed at it

too mean to die

tough as Rasputin

the Force is strong in Cheney

unalloyed DarkSide

bigot

bishop John Aylmer
untroubled by the gospels
preached "God is English"

persuasion

Lord High Admiral

Buckingham ran the Navy

without grog or lash

mixed surface

snow, moss and guano

season climbing in Scotland

English rock's blander

roundabout

you eat half a pie
as a model of restraint
are you a tau-ist?

undefeated

rabbi Akiva
sings Shema while stripped of flesh
a type of redress

hevel hevelim

transient as wind
haiku like thoughts, float away
void, personified

wetware

no one expected
working memory repair
via guanfacine

snapshot

hippies never change
year after year in the Haight
strange eternal youth

the incentives are the system

no haiku patents
means I've no incentive to

fleeting

uneven sunlight

dappled sledders in glory

pictures don't come out

glades

crowds in the forest
hurtling down the mountainside
psychotic snow-play

poster child

:

Marco Rubio 

scores a 10 with the ladies

and on IQ tests

incentives for bad behavior

Banks across Europe 

charging negative interest 

fuel housing bubbles

triage

South Carolina's
hung a bad cop out to dry
for excessive force

measure twice, cut once

wait for the headshot
running wounded game to earth
shouldn't count as "sport"

self

the StandardModel
allows no anti-photons
plumb on the axis

expired

"Hunting Accident"
or "Mysterious Plane Crash"
Putin's gotta go

projecting

easily confused
Jeb marked himself "Hispanic"
like we're that dumb too

selective prosecution

federal statute
protects tags on matresses
better than Black teens

culture of paranoia

J. Edgar Hoover
loved his agents young and slim
on amphetamines

insider

Rahm Emanuel
blinded by big donations
tripped over voters

nolentum trahunt

Putin's successor
can't rely on elections
"hunting accident"

splittists

Ralph Nader's faithful

put John Roberts on the Court

and demur credit

workaday

:

today's adjective

for the Hillary campaign

is spelled: "unsparkling"

Free at last

I live for the news

Cheney has died one more time 

than he's been revived

standards

except for whiskey

what cannot ever go bad

wasn't ever good

back-channel

for book collectors
arcane marginalia
boost some tomes' value

what are you talking about

disambiguate?
the Echo opts for guessing
and hilarity

drift

Telushkin's "Hillel"
frets that Shammai has triumphed
incrementally

self

no anti-photons
the axis of symmetry
would run right through them

liberation

season of freedom
drop the kids at the airport
Pesach ritual

now it as a name

Tegmark's hierarchy
organized a multiverse
that may not exist

nothing's free II

Shannon Entropy
tallying infomation
slew Maxwell's Demon

distributed load

the load shifts around
you run up-hill on your heart
and down- on your knees

over-played

Putin's recruiting
new members to NATO's ranks
this year, watch Finland

who has the god, rules

world turned upside-down
because they have lobbyists
now, the banks rob you

nothing's free

Shannon got credit
eclipsing Leo Szilard
Maxwell's Demon's bane

all is not lost

Cadbury "chocolates"
might fatten hogs--in a pinch--
for the Easter ham

New York

for Federal ends
Congress may not comandeer
the States' resources

infertile

on so many wives
how'd the Prophet get no sons?
Allah toyed with Job

priorities

mah zeh meshugas

metzitzah b'peh aroor

pikuach nefesh

ruled

a nation of sheep

deserves government by wolves

and their lobbyists

collective sovereign

a nation of sheep

apathetic sovereign
deserves Dick Cheney

dumb and dumber

:

Dubya's kid brother

used to claim he's "Hispanic"

like no one'd notice

hey! down here!

Rahm Emanuel

blinded by big donations

trips on the voters

ko t'varchu

"live long and prosper"

evokes an older blessing

"yiverechekhah"

NewYork v. UnitedStates

for Federal ends
Congress may not commandeer
the States' resources

separation of powers

Federalist X
ambition curbs ambition
in Madison's sketch

static

Fred Hoyle posited
to dispense with a BigBang
constant creation

runaway

more than mere matter
Perlmutter's DarkEnergy
pervades the cosmos

hired guns

Dubya's PR men
proclaim "Tikrit has fallen"
mission accomplished!

snobbery

Rutherford disdained
science that isn't physics
until his Nobel

intangibles

uncharged particles
offer chemists' minds no grip
like chewing on air

symbiotes

polysaccarides
that we can't digest ourselves
feed methanogens

inert IV

Rome or Marrakesh
narcissi-sticks claim it all
as background to me

bogeymen

Bibi's teshuva
his racism's just for show
Two-Faced solution

the State's place

in religion's name
Indiana law-makers
endorse bigotry

the needs of the many

commercial pilots'
suicidal tendencies
can't be kept private

inert III

Rome or Marrakesh
narcissi-sticks make it all
background for my smirk

echoes

vestige of DayOne
as inflaton fields collapsed
microwave background

isotropic

hyperinflation
stretched wrinkles in Time and Space
to--almost--nothing

canonical ensemble

in Tegmark's cosmos
helium-filled sky-turtles
undergird a world

recursive

the Talmud's rabbis
smelling a recursion trap
posit the first tongs

Easter

first full-moon of Spring
welcomes either Elijah
or pogrom season

known unknowns

Hamlet's nagging doubt
that bad dreams would end at death
paralyzed the prince

inert II

Rome or Marrakesh
armed with a narcissi-stick
merely frames my smirk

parallel play

each in his own screen
as lonely as neutrinos
non-interacting

inert

non-interacting
to document lives alone
hold narcissi-sticks

sovereign

"I could be bounded...
a Prince of infinite space
but...I have bad dreams"

icy

in skiing, like sex
when faking it's onerous
gotta hang it up

got to be good-looking

to guard her beauty
coal-scuttle-shaped sun-bonnet
obscures her features

equivalence

any tongue will do
one's toes by another name
would smell just as feet

is anyone receiving?

on radio waves
haiku as performance art
all is transience

going down

GermanWings pilot
kneeling at his cockpit door
went down on his ship

towards a State

domesticating
the avenging next-of-kin
Cities of Refuge

Rasul

to have left no sons
was the Prophet shooting blanks?
legacy of words

elixers

Geron's gone feral
extending teleomers
for rich Mexicans

our son-of-a-bitch

FieldMarshall Sisi
guns down protestors en masse
at Riyadh's bidding

aliens!

born in Alberta
Cruz aspires to the White House
creepy alien

judgement

interviewers take
confidence for competence
at their own peril

tripwire

Dulles legacy
military advisors
always in harm's way

wasting time

creativity
doesn't happen in meetings
real thought takes quiet

Orwellian manipulation

the hero's brother
mimes keeping Iraelis safe
by keeping them scared

it's 5:00 somewhere

'though they abjured fun
most Puritans drank like fish
starting with breakfast

Icy

it's not unlike sex
when skiing's no longer fun
faking's onerous

pet

Putin's pet Chechen
Quisling of the Caucasus
Ramzan Kadyrov

for you the first of months

vernal equinox
even sheep know something's up
rosh hodesh Nisan

'round and 'round

a river, for Proust
represents both Time and Mind
eddying nowhere

jaw jaw is better than war war

Kerry's catching on
of course, they'll negotiate
they're Iranian

interactive

haiku hang flaccid
'til readers participate
pumping in meaning

bust

as Saudis pump more
the North Dakota oil boom
may be going bust

public's servant II

chairman Tom Wheeler
reined in his own industry
like Joe Kennedy

public's servant

chairman Tom Wheeler
most improved regulator
since Joe Kennedy

legacy

sins of the fathers
choosing war in '48
mustn't damn the sons

disorderly

long before Karlak
the first Lord of Entropy
was Wolfgang Pauli

passing

as follicles ages
'though wives may be evergreen
we're deciduous

disregulated

other things that grow
like operating systems
would be called "cancers"

disregulated growth

relentless as death
operating systems bloat
to glut memory

bad package

long after youth fled
praeternatural long life
burdened Tythonis

the taint of corruption

HouseSpeaker Boehner
Sheldon Adelson's rentboy
loves Bibi three-way

the best use of space

fission's obsolete
on a powerplant's footprint
solar makes more watts

seditious

as King Coal's reined in
senator Mitch McConnell
preaches sedition

triumphalist

post-election feast
while his opponents eat crow
Bibi eats the dove

evocative

meaning's imputed
from readers' experience
my words are just prompts

pathological

politicians lie
at least when they move their lips
and when they're typing

not the women

the Norman conquest
left no stamp on Briton's genes
pseudo-French puffters

beyond ego II

refracting language
translators suppress ego
to channel others

beyond ego

channeling others
translators refract language
extinguishing self

keter shem tov II

Achilles in death
wears the crown of a good name
higher than a king's

keter shem tov

Achilles triumphed
'though he moulders in the grave
men still sing his praise

monopoly on force

signs of real progress
marginalizing Dostum
Ghani shows wisdom

Shaw's enigma

communication
might not be illusory
but...how could one tell?

John Archibald Wheeler

each time I reread
"The Goldilocks Enigma"
I doubt that I'm sane

what's bigger than "big"?

Tegmark's multiverse
a Library of Babel
contains everything

observer as participant

meaning's imputed
from readers' experience
or else, it's just words

with regard to what?

Kurt Gödel's insight:
a rotating universe
permits time travel

the hard way

bucking a North wind
post-frontal from Palomino
"Bad Day to BlackRock"

legacy

Obama's peace prize
could be earned in Palestine
despite Bibi's threats

racist

keeping a racist
as his foreign minister
shows Bibi's colors

angle of attack

point up! or sheet out!
reduce angle of attack
lest the gusts roll you