amphibious

marauding molluscs
chomped my tomato seedlings
by cover of night

fatigue

turn on tonight's news
it's the biggest Trump scandal
until the next one

tell it to the judge

Putin's cock-holster
wants the FCC to quash
the Colbert Report 

"the best people"

loud man with a gun
failed to pass security
Sebastian Gorka

waning influence

Bannon's commissars
are getting purged, one by one
their patron's waning

memento

Balder gave Hermod
Draupnir for the all-Father
souvenir of Hel

monstrous

unnatural lusts
Loki and Pasiphae
monstrous conceptions

get up

dreamers gotta choose
stay abed and dream some more
or realize them

to each his niche

T. Rex at wits' end
urges her picky hatchling:
cajoles "eat prey, love"

sound advice

gawky therapod
re-reads his mother's memo
she'd urged:"eat prey, love"

doom of Mandos

exiles of Arda
seven sons of Feanor
and one hound named Huan

big lie

no conspiracy
outdoes creationism
for scale and chutzpah

gimmick

gastronomic stunts
manipulating colloids
don't amount to "food"

Thomas Jefferson
neologized avidly
New World, new language

papal ensemble
fabulous ruby slippers
set off dowdy dress

fake!

Obama faked Right
left knee-jerk obstructionists
arguing for Peace

in St. Paul's writings
homosexuality
comes from beyond God?

bad monotheist

in St. Paul's writings
homosexuality
comes from beyond God?

L. Paul Bremer's coup
undercutting Jake Garner
screwed the Kurds, again

prolonging our slump
disLoyal Opposition
make the pie smaller

a vision unrealized

Mario Cuomo

shook us with prophetic words

1984

don't just pick

T. rex, cajoling

his hatchling to dig right in
urges: "Eat Prey, Love"

focus

T. rex simplifies

his new book gets to the point

proclaiming "Eat Prey"

common touch

governor Christie

swears like a drunken sailor

Iowa blushes

tainted

Hastert's favorites

got more than egg on their face

sticking close to him