2015-08-31

exceptionalism

Cheney's so evil
Dante saved the tenth circle
in Hell, just for him

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2015-08-27

snark

as one's more mature
knowledge supplies the retort
wisdom seals our lips

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minhag haMakom

 
Sex-Ed in Sweden 
discomforts some immigrants 
who fled repression

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well read

long before Hamlet
Orestes avenged the king
on his faithless mom

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2015-08-25

confused

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

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Keith rules

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

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select audience

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

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29 million years ago...

without the fanfare
primates got to the New World
before Columbus

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quid pro quo

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

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the Party of Bliss

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

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ignoble

skulking Aegisthus
the great king's crooked cousin
gorged in his shadow

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2015-08-22

the shape of things to come

"Precision CastParts"
Buffett bets against printing
for manufacture

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Ignorance is Bliss!

peddling Ignorance
GOP shores up its brand
the Party of Bliss

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convincing

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

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shallow affect

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

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same old

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

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first cause

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

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indelible

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

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State bias

"one law for all" but
prosecutor's discretion
still discriminates

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2015-08-21

clown VII

:
braying like an ass
Trump accuses Obama
of divisiveness

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ever to the Right, Hosanna!



Incrementally 
Party Chairman Xi Jinping 
ditched Mao for Stalin

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2015-08-19

blood from a stone

:
Greece took out new loans
to service outstanding debts
ever-deeper holes

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outside the system

:
Politics of rage
Black Lives Matter and Donald
can't effect real CHANGE

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2015-08-18

no substance

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

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lawyerly

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

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Durga lives

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

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2015-08-17

on message

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

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2015-08-15

poisoned

:
the Republicans
having drunk their own Kool-Aid
suffer from DTs

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tools


useful idiots
shouted down Sanders' challenge
to the plutocrats

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2015-08-14

let them eat cake

Donald Trump boasted
of quid-pro-quo corruption
aux armes, citoyens!

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2015-08-13

tainted

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

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go Donald!

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

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outre

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

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witness

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

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testify, brother!

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

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ass

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

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Diva

:
Marissa Johnson
shares Donald Trump's appetite
for self-promotion

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lawless

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

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2015-08-10

put a rag in it!

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

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elitist

William F. Buckley
served the Ancien Regime
against the People

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Gore/Buckley

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

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free!

soaring, exultant
surly bonds of gravity
gonna have to wait

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worse than lawyers

ophthalmologists
Rand Paul and Bashir Assad
medicine's black eye

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legacy

Erdogan aspired
to lead Turks into EU
settled for a war

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seriously?

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

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divisive

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

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send in the clowns

Ronald and Donald
history repeats itself
farce, then tragedy

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what's the buzz?

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

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unbalanced

Red-State radio
twenty-sixteen agenda
ugly racist swill

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optimizing

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

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storm probe

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

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straw dog

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

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memento mori

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

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indiscriminate

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

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Ex Machina

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

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crown of creation

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

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conservation

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

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sacrifice

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

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slick Rick

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

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2015-08-08

best of enemies



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

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Citizens, Unite!

Donald Trump boasted
of quid-pro-quo corruption
as if that's ok 

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2015-08-07

Faux debate

brief day in the sun
Donald eclipses Carly
the morning after

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2015-08-06

exuberance

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

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for those whose campaigns peak too soon

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

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loose cannon

faced with falling polls
Erdogan launches a war
against our ally

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hard man

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

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slick Rick

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

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threshold

governor Kasich
squeezing into the top ten
pushed Santorum out

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clown V

stupid orange hair
embroils Donald with Bozo
"trademark infringement"

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filthy habit

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

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usurper

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

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clown IV

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

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private servants

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

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liberty betrayed

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

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affection

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

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unprosecuted

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

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clown III

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

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utile

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

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clown II

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

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clown

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

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rose-tinted

bad relationship
in love with America
hoping it will change

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construct

photon-to-photon
my tiny mammalian brain
interpolates worlds

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drawn-down

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

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sinking feeling

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

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great game

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

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bubble

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

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fair and balanced

Stewart and Colbert
leave America bereft
of journalism

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horizons

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

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small pond

:
Fiorina won
the junior varsity match
low expectations

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sold!

Thomas Paine foresaw
selling out the Indians
would buy the Union

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deal

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

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simplistic

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

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worked example

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

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scandalous

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

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narrative frame

StarTrek and StarWars
competing mythologies
confuse the mall-rats

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psyche!

Jonathan Pollard
pled guilty for lenience
got used shabbily

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nerds

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

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qui bono?

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

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when I use a word...

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

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immersed

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

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corrupted

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

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out-classed

in Ontario
the river that eats buses
sneers at rubber rafts

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heroic

America needs
Trumps maturity and class
and fabulous hair

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2015-08-04

grappling

Rubio's late thrust
going into the debates
squeezed santorum out

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2015-08-03

wing nut

courting Jewish votes
Huckabee's hyperbole
smacks of psychosis

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nasty, brutish and short

privatizing force
Florida's Stand Your Ground law
guts Leviathan

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3 1/2 minutes

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

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gravitas

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

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out in front

endorsing Gay Rights
Obama in Nairobi
found little traction

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since I've been loving you

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

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EoByblos

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

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encoded

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

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ungrounded

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

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two-neck

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

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fallible senses

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

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long shadow

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

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there's always a bigger fish

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

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