Ziggy

occult ninth planet
might explain the Kuiper Belt's
semblance of order

BrownWater

governor Snyder's
gotta step up, or step down
over Flint's water

motivate

arise before dawn
pack up the car in the rain
fat freshies await

vapid

reality whores
playing "all the world's a stage"
something rich and strange

backgrounding

against the ClownCar
Jeb stands out as more mature
damning with faint praise

dumb and dumber

Trump from Column 'A'
chose Palin from Column 'B'
coupling rich and strange

second time as farce

at once rich and strange
the ClownCar's leaking something
fouling the gutter

non-elective

embarking on life

we don't get to choose the boat

but know they all sink

where no man has gone before

governor LePage
embarrassed shameless Christie
above and beyond

overlooked

Marco Rubio
stepping out in high-heeled boots
begs to get noticed

Ratzinger's brother
abetted the rape of boys
in Regensburg's choir

play money for corporate persons

credit default swaps
fictional economies
where  nothing gets made

found gems

eylu v'eylu
divrei elohim chaim
b'shem shemayim

coming into his own

Kim turns thirty-three
big day for the little guy
were he a hobbit

monoculture

Norman Borlag spread
"the wheat that would grow in Hell"
from Siberia

unleashed

Kayyani's pet wolves
raid India senselessly
now their patron's gone

looking for excitement

police chief's sex toys
tittilate Long Island's press
as his trial looms

bellicose

Riyadh's client states
close ranks against Teheran
we miss Abdullah

wrestlings

re-entry ordeals
remade Jacob and Moses
in the dark of night

consubstantial

the heart of stillness
in each reaches outwards towards
the Heart of Stillness

all together now

mal anniversaire
nous sommes tout Charlie Hebdo
unis dans teroirs

labels

New Hampshire voters
strategically "undeclared"
enjoy leverage

tear down the wall

Saudi feminists
aspiring to normalcy
challenge everything

welcoming beaches

Schengen's nearest port
beckons Syrian migrants
to explore Lesbos

holiday spirit

queen Elizabeth
cites the Christmas narrative
to plead for migrants

epistemic closure

to salve their egos
the hypocrites of SouthPark
hanged reality

never let them see you sweat

recursive haiku
laugh at the poet striving
to look effortless

pest

Ashfaq Kayyani
gave polio safe haven 
in terrorist camps

pro-biotic

to drive early life
self-assembling vesicles
sustained gradients

late arrivals

outside the Earth's core
heavy-metal legacy
owed to asteroids

framing the result

Iowa caucus 

managing expectations 

Jeb aspires to third