visionary

by 2005
George Soros called the bubble
few see so clearly

ugly

Saban/Adelson
fund the worst stereotypes
rich Jew as monster

self-damned

putative "Christians"
who demure to love strangers
can all go to Hell

good neighbors make

Occupation's costs
Liebowitz as Cassandra
shouted himself hoarse

hypocrites

putative "Christians"
who demur to love strangers
can go straight to Hell

Waah!

Putin acts aggrieved
that Turkey defends her skies
psychopath "victim"

nativist

if hating strangers
would send "Christians" straight to Hell
we'd have lots more room

mind the gap

pumping the phosphor
indium-doped gallium
makes white LEDs

crafty, not innovative

accountant-in-chief
sold Pfizer to Allergan
to evade taxes

jedi-level

South Georgia Island
catabatic williwaws
albatross playground

synecdoche

time-honored format
striving for profundity
try writing sonnets

playing with fire

Vladimir Putin

a schoolyard bully with nukes

wants Erdogan's lunch

when fascism comes to America

:

sublimating fears

Trumpen proletariat

bouffant fascism

insider

no agent of CHANGE
the senator from WallStreet
thinks the system works

second place

Amundsen's sled-dogs
graciously left cairns of shit
to guide Robert Scott

sterotyped

Hebrew translation
Lady Chatterly's lover
must be an Arab

old-school

Pat Robertson's god
punishes children for sins
of their forefathers

second place

Scott followed the cairns
of dog shit Amundsen left
right to the South Pole

outrageous intrusion

inverse honeypots
"Special Demonstration Squad"
betrayed public trust

no ground to stand on

Jeb scores easy points
pointing out that Donald's wrong
but owns no platform

aspirational

dynamic soaring
without convection or ridge
albatross-envy

self-assembling

primal nanotech
phospholipids assemble
spontaneously

old machine

no mere prosthesis
a ribosome's RNA
is the working bits

prejudice

Donald Trump's mask slipped
his database of Muslims
revealed the fascist

dynamic soaring

albatross as bow
held taut by the string of wing
endless potential

in-house

Jordan's Abdullah
steps up to confront Daesh
it's a Muslim thing

diminished

by 2005
U.S. influence had tanked
Heck of a job, George!

purpose-built

the ice-worthy Fram
wallowed like a pig in shit
until frozen fast

unexamined life

failed experiment?
a whole nation of assholes
born of immigrants

refuge of scoundrels

no cause for pride here
our exceptionalism's
just egotism

unAmerican

America's shame
a nation of immigrants
turns refugees back

American exceptionalism

pull up the ladder!
now that we've found safe refuge
let the laggards drown!

innocents abroad

refugees in France
find Hell is hot on their heels
far from Syria

an honest politician stays bought

:
beholden to banks
the senator from WallStreet
doesn't feel our pain

balance II

sword, scale, and blindfold

Justice has three attributes

no one can suffice

balance

sword, scale, and blindfold

Justice has three attributes

all necessary

unmotivated

living in darkness
Gollum didn't need a Ring
to go unnoticed

IFF

PD-1-ligand
tells Killer-Ts to stand down
"these are not the 'droids..."

vainglory II

Robert Falcon Scott
cured ennui walking to Hell
for a penguin's egg

vainglory

to stave off ennui
Robert Scott led men to Hell
for a penguin's egg

global terror

Beirut's forgotten

as the world mourns with Paris

lonely on the Front

rough manager

Agamemnon chafed

on better men under him

Achilles got sore

low expectations

dark Daesh vision
clash of civilizations
banking on hatred

on the rebound

dancing binaries
flinging their partners away
form a new couple

satisfaction

David Deutsch perceived
bad epistemology
dooms societies

fat of the land (and of the sea, and of the sky)

geese wax fat in Fall
salmon max out in the Spring
omnivores' bounty

for the resume

Bashar al-Assad's
head's the coronation gift
king Salman's heir craves

Good Old Days

malign nostalgia
Ike's "WetBack" atrocities
look rosy to Trump

dumb and dumber

senator Ted Cruz
years after Perry flamed out
still can't count to five

exceptionalism

blanket amnesty
just Cuban Americans
GOP logic

cover-up

Bernard card'nal Law
shielded known pedophile priests
"suffer the children"

Acting

Timothy Dalton's
portrayal of James O'Bond
scandalized Eton

indefinite detention

locked up without cause
we grow our own terrorists
at Guantanamo

tabula rasa

Dubya's accounting:
youthful indiscretions purged
'cuz he's BornAgain

lies

Ben Carson's fables
unmoored from reality
seem delusional

ill repute

the age of FauxNews
reality's no defense
against calumny

fraunhoffer

spectroscopic'ly
trans-uranic elements
mark super-novas

sold!

in bed with bankers

the senator from WallStreet

can't deliver CHANGE

unanswerable

guilt-wracked survivor
there, but for the grace of God
tastes absurdity

unnatural

Dick Cheney's new heart
like Darth Vader's prostheses
sustain the undead

nasty

the Book of Judges
argued for Leviathan
before Thomas Hobbes

nuts

Ted Cruz and Rand Paul
to use the technical term
"hard-currency kooks"

causus belli

: 

Cheney smirks darkly

his world vision realized

as Paris explodes

lost dream

symptoms of despair
the BibleBelt turns to meth
and the Ku Klux Klan

hostage to our detainees

gesture of goodwill
give Cuba Guantanamo
throw in the tenants

Worst Journey II

bored with too much peace
Apsley Cherry Garrard sought
manhood in peril

Worst Journey

when life looked too dull
Cherry-Garrard walked to Hell
for a penguin's egg

low-energy

Jeb slept with a girl!
rather than bore her to sleep
Poppy's ecstatic

argument from design

Paley recursion
stumbling on a perfect God...
who created Him?

synergy

strict reductionists
treast emergent properties
as causus belli

zichronam

a yawning black gash
memorializes lives
lost in Vietnam

humanism

strive for perspective
dehumanizing others
diminishes us

sinat chinam

pious hypocrites

keep the Fast of Gedaliah
but murdered Rabin

apocalyptic

Sign of the EndTimes
Dubya in league with Bachmann
proselytizing Jews

pants on fire II

Ben Carson's fables
sink the credibility
without which, he's toast

blowback

embracing Assad
Putin alienated
a billion Muslims

lost dreams

mortality tracks
with Existential Despair
in the BibleBelt

incitement

Amos Guiora
find Brandenburg test too strict
wants HateSpeech reined in

deep stuff

where the sun don't shine
Clostridium anaerobes
come into their own

cannot say our hands are clean

never to forget
Rabin's assassination
Tzom Gedaliah

usurper

anointed in blood
Netanyahu incited
Rabin's assassin

pharos

shut up, calculate!
relativistic beaming
(can't visualize)

unreality-based community

half-prepped candidate
Ben Carson sticks to the script
if not to the truth

pants on fire

Ben Carson's stories
don't stand up to scrutiny
FauxNews' darling

tube-within-a-tube

Alberta's tar-sands
would transit U.S. heartland
like shit through a goose

poor host

amateur clown night
Trump hosts Saturday Night Light
inhospitably

new Orpheus

crossing South Georgia
Shackleton--long believed dead--
hiked back from Hades

conditionally impossible

South Georgia's backside
had been thought impassable
until Shackleton

howling potential

Elephant Island's
catabatic williwaws
could power Rio

tough

Shackleton's wireless
proved less robust than the crew
who limped back from Hell

consequences

denuded of trees

mountains wash into the sea

inexorably

desire on wings

beautiful grey gull
sooth-sleek black-tipped wings abreast
staring greedily

it all makes sense (to me)

domoic acid
made Ben Carson's brain shrivel
(personal theory)

I'll pass, thanks

domoic acid
causes one's brain to shrivel
irreversibly

nesting

over centuries
two-step photosynthesis
terra-formed young earth

synergy

determinate bees
comprise intelligent hives
in the aggregate

untidy package

failed formulation
smoking for the nicotine
dying of the tar

content

data compression
photos of pocket lining
needn't fill our 'phones

unregulated

Bush, like McKinley
let Capitalism run
roughshod over us

Intelligent?

it seems God plays dice
the giraffe's laryngeal nerve
looks like a hack job

napoleonic

Putin prefers men
next to whom he can look big
short al-Assad's stock

cons conned

Ahmad Chalabi
darling of the neoCons
played us for trillions

emergent property

Determinate bees 

 comprise intelligent hives

 in the aggregate

industrial age

phyllo de-novo
only for a masochist
life's just way too short

Einstein

imagination's
more important than knowledge
but harder to teach

civility

Gingrich plays with fire
Buchanan-era rancor
got way out of hand

inhospitable

God dwells with migrants
Lot's gated community
stank in His nostrils

proxy

Bashar al-Assad
last year's convenient strongman
found a new patron

us and them

lacking a phoneme
the Septuagint struggled
to write "Shibboleth"

feckless

twenty years ill-spent
backlash from Rabin's murder
hasn't advanced Peace

it's a hot mess

Jeb's polls are slipping
once Santorum's in the pool
no one has traction

foiled again

Jeb's polls are slipping
Santorum costs him traction
in the voter pool

2016 slipping away

Jeb finds no traction
leverage counts for nothing
because...Santorum!

humility

Jesuit-in-Chief
chastens Princes of the Church
"who am I to judge?"

loco parentis

voice recognition
lets the new HelloBarbie
mould children's psyches

revisionist

lost WhitePrivilege
inspires Trumps backers to rage
for the "good old days"

making lemonade

ben Zakkai's triumph
rather than accept defeat
co-opts history

meaning attaches

eight-fold symmetry
persimmons hint at Buddha's
enlightenment path

Brandenburg Test

Rabin sang for Peace
Benjamin Netanyahu
incited murder

foolish pride

Bentham's calculus
Priam should have ditched Paris
and saved a kingdom

hive mind

Conway's GameOfLife
complexity emerges
from algorithms

neo-Stalinist

:

thirteenth FiveYear Plan

sequel to a bad movie

Xi mistrusts markets

sequel to a bad movie

thirteenth FiveYear Plan
Xi JinPing turns a new leaf
out of Stalin's book

proper powers

Chickenshit Congress
wants us to bomb Syria
but won't declare war

uses of rhetoric

Pericles extolled
a long-ago Golden Age
but worked for progress

comfort

dissatisfaction
raised to an imperative
par'shah Lekh l'kha

Sampson option

bringing down the house
leaky mitochondria
ditch symbiosis

bimetallism

first DeflationGate
WallStreet bankers feared silver
would bust their corner

the cost of Pride

Bentham knew Priam
should have given Paris up
to save a kingdom

shameless

Hephaistos' wife
caught fucking her own brother
blushed (transiently)

limiting nutrient

before Fritz Haber
Chile and Bolivia
fought over guano

invested in noise

Donald proves the rule
the loudest Howler Monkey
has the smallest balls

optimize!

ancestral opsin
before the first vertebrate
absorbed in UV

anti-American

"Confucius Peace Prize"
hails an autocratic thug
Robert Mugabe

genes, not organisms

Hamilton's RedQueen
pathogens and parasites
make sex rewarding

ill-used

Benghazi outpost
belonged to our CIA
Chris was a figleaf

short his stock

no one loves Assad
Putin prefers shorter men
who make him look big

rough patch

sqeaky car-owners
knocked the Tesla's ratings down
not quite oil-free yet

cracks in the machine

Sanders and Bloomberg
two Jewish Independents
ride voters' disgust