mobile haiku

Vegas aesthetic

2012-02-02T16:07:00.001-08:00

Robert Venturi
praises Las Vegas building
decorated sheds

power struggle

2012-02-02T16:06:00.001-08:00

Berkeley street gauntlet
self-righteous pedestrians
seize the right-of-way

nightmarish

2012-02-02T16:05:00.002-08:00

night apparitions
pedestrians clad in black
loom in the crosswalk

last wish

2012-02-02T16:05:00.000-08:00

Thomas a Beckett
bequeathed lice on Henry's men
as he lay cooling

low expectations

2012-02-02T16:04:00.001-08:00

in Homer's Bronze Age
lesser sons of greater sires
aspired to greatness

apocalyptic II

2012-02-02T16:03:00.001-08:00

in the End of Days
the Book of Revelations
warns of Newt's coming

duped

2012-02-02T16:02:00.003-08:00

Gingrich's fanbase
raging against the Machine
backs an insider

not of this world

2012-02-02T16:02:00.001-08:00

the Gospel of John
portrays an alien god
slumming among us

hell-bent

2012-02-02T16:01:00.001-08:00

Bashar al-Assad
lubricates his path to Hell
with innocent blood

apocalyptic

2012-02-02T16:00:00.001-08:00

in the End of Days
behold! a Pale Insider
and his name is "Newt"

the age of Gekko

2012-02-02T15:59:00.001-08:00

president Reagan
demonized our government
and deified Greed

interest

2012-02-02T15:58:00.001-08:00

investment bankers
trust that Mitt stands on their side
against the People

tacit

2012-02-02T15:57:00.001-08:00

NATO tries candor
the ISI is in bed
with the Taliban

spin, counterspin

2012-02-02T15:56:00.001-08:00

Newt claims victory
finishing in second place
Mitt's like "whatever"

Dutch tulips, again

2012-02-02T15:55:00.001-08:00

designer bubble
built to implode massively
Zynga IPO

utilitarian

2012-02-02T15:54:00.001-08:00

in Mitt Romney's world
poor people are convenient
they keep wages low

the good stuff

2012-02-02T15:53:00.001-08:00

slow-growing heartwood
under the canopies shade
built for the long haul

build me a sanctuary

2012-02-02T15:52:00.001-08:00

under the Black Sea
the first known Europeans
left clay dollhouses

Euro crisis fallout

2012-02-02T15:51:00.001-08:00

Turks used to aspire
to being "Europeans"
not so much, of late

Moses

2012-01-28T16:11:00.001-08:00

to create by speech
would be fitting for a god
primates use a stick

nothing for nothing

2012-01-28T16:10:00.001-08:00

airfoils ain't magic
unless you create downwash
you don't produce lift

big world

2012-01-28T16:09:00.001-08:00

every thousand gained
buys three miles gliding downwind
horizons expand

nothing to do

2012-01-28T16:08:00.001-08:00

pimply-faced mall-rats
bored out of their teenaged minds
crave a good day's work

hydrodynamic

2012-01-28T16:07:00.001-08:00

evisceration
threatens anyone who sits
on hot-tub outlets

pattern recognition

2012-01-28T16:05:00.001-08:00

California's droughts
correlate with phat soaring
and crappy skiing

dim sum

2012-01-28T16:04:00.001-08:00

skip the friend wontons
I'm not as white as I look
bring the chicken feet

what should be obvious

2012-01-28T16:02:00.001-08:00

Balaam's talking ass
echoed Achilles' horses
you can't fight with gods

referent

2012-01-28T16:01:00.001-08:00

synoptic gospels
midrashim on a lost text
designate it "Q"

unknown

2012-01-28T16:00:00.001-08:00

each new flying site
comes with that first-date frisson
is this one crazy?

indelible

2012-01-28T15:59:00.001-08:00

unsavory stain
on Pennsylvania's record
Santorum was here

explosive

2012-01-28T15:58:00.001-08:00

panic grips the Right
Santorum must be contained!
Newt's face shows the strain

useful trick

2012-01-28T15:57:00.002-08:00

erectile tissue
evolved independently
in ratites and rats

family resemblance

2012-01-28T15:57:00.000-08:00

seals and sealions
shared a flippered ancestor
"monophyletic"

culture of abuse

2012-01-28T15:54:00.001-08:00

"Oscar Grant Plaza"
lends Oakland a beating heart
now there's a "there", there

survivor's burden

2012-01-28T15:47:00.000-08:00

The better brother

Hektor to Bibi's Paris

died at Entebbe

foul!

2012-01-28T15:46:00.001-08:00

Romney and Gingrich

couldn't contain Santorum

the race gets messy

dead end

2012-01-28T15:45:00.001-08:00

Toxoplasmosis

harmless in cats, but in man:

schizophrenia

in his element

2012-01-28T15:43:00.001-08:00

Nomen est omen

Newt is an amphibian

lives part-time in sin

noise machine

2012-01-28T15:42:00.003-08:00

it's the same old crap

human centiGOPede

recycles attacks

same old crap

2012-01-28T15:42:00.001-08:00

Endless news cycle

human centiGOPede

recycles attacks

violated

2012-01-28T15:41:00.000-08:00

Impounding assets

before showing malfeasance

neuters Due Process

of nine minds

2012-01-28T15:40:00.000-08:00

Unanimous court

overlapping opinions

nine minds, nine logics

liar

2012-01-28T15:39:00.001-08:00

Amphibious Newt

always in his element

lives part-time in sin

K street

2012-01-28T15:38:00.000-08:00

Peddling influence

made Gingrich a wealthy man

while skirting the Law

Orwellian

2012-01-28T15:37:00.001-08:00

Ahmadinejad

cultivates external threats

to rally voters

uncivil

2012-01-28T15:36:00.000-08:00

Newt's pugnacity

endears him to some voters

mostly White bigots

snap shot

2012-01-28T15:35:00.003-08:00

Blogging in haiku

psychological portrait

three lines at a time

joke of a system

2012-01-28T15:31:00.001-08:00

Stephen Colbert's PAC

mocks our campaign finances

"one dollar, one vote"

two-faced

2012-01-28T15:30:00.001-08:00

South Carolina

votes for the amphibian

lives part-time in sin

The West is red

2012-01-28T15:29:00.003-08:00

The sun is setting

Mao is buried in China

next revolution

elephantine

2012-01-28T15:29:00.001-08:00

Grapefruit sized eyeballs

larger than the seals' brainpan

peer out of the depths

one-sided

2012-01-28T15:28:00.000-08:00

Hunters hunt for sport

but the fox dies in ernest

inequitable

broken? fixed!

2012-01-28T15:27:00.001-08:00

The revolving door

enriches ex-congressmen

we're served with gravy

opaque

2012-01-28T15:26:00.003-08:00

Unless it's Apple

each new user interface

might as well be Greek

opaque

2012-01-28T15:26:00.001-08:00

Unless it's Apple

each new user interface

might as well be Greek

noisesome

2012-01-28T15:25:00.003-08:00

Bible-belt rumblings

Santorum must be contained!

Newt's face shows the strain

superbowl

2012-01-28T15:25:00.001-08:00

Get some exercise!

watching grown men play kids' games

doesn't count as sport

where to start

2012-01-28T15:24:00.001-08:00

Thomas L. Friedman

knows what Americans want

just not who's paying

bombast

2012-01-28T15:23:00.001-08:00

Gingrich's ego

expands outwards towards the moon

toads puff up when scared

disgraceful

2012-01-28T15:22:00.001-08:00

Ex-speaker Gingrich

"brought discredit on the House"

to use his own words

the wrong brother

2012-01-28T15:21:00.001-08:00

Bibi sees a chance

to be hailed as a strong man

for striking Iran

demure

2012-01-28T15:20:00.001-08:00

Japanese women
speaking in a high shrill squeak
affirm men's status

never to work again

2012-01-28T15:19:00.001-08:00

Gingrich claims credit
for fixing how Congress works
"fixed" like a stray cat

not too subtle

2012-01-28T15:18:00.002-08:00

Scratch a Newt backer
under States Rights rhetoric
you'll find a racist

state interests

2012-01-28T15:18:00.000-08:00

Russian arms makers
bank on sales to Syria
more "Stalin" than "Marx"

juvenile

2012-01-28T15:16:00.001-08:00

Were Newt to grow up
what might he become in time?
imago? Statesman?

on schedule

2012-01-20T16:07:00.001-08:00

Teens get difficult

girls try to live on salads

boys just want red meat

material science

2012-01-20T16:06:00.002-08:00

polysaccarides

starch and cellulose and guar...

storage for sunlight

nothing to lose

2012-01-20T16:06:00.000-08:00

Oppressed for too long

to stand up, we must sit in

Occupy Wall Street

unforeseen

2012-01-20T16:05:00.001-08:00

Migrating song-birds

blinded by drilling platforms

rain into the sea

camouflage

2012-01-20T16:04:00.001-08:00

Playful colorschemes

can't hide bad architecture

if you've built a box

global

2012-01-20T16:03:00.003-08:00

Boom time in China

may be falling off a cliff

no one's importing

spectacle

2012-01-20T16:03:00.001-08:00

Grand funeral games

honored Achilles' boyfriend

while Hektor rotted

signifier

2012-01-20T15:18:00.000-08:00

The word's not the thing

all language is metaphor

C'est ne pas un pipe

droit de seigneur

2012-01-20T15:17:00.001-08:00

Agamemnon's prize

unearned in the throwing match

story of his life

class issues

2012-01-20T15:16:00.001-08:00

Prophetic vision
the Cuomo convention speech
took aim at Romney

unearned

2012-01-20T15:15:00.003-08:00

For hungry workers

Mitt Romney's unearned income

looks like an issue

out of touch

2012-01-20T15:15:00.001-08:00

For one year's speeches

a third of a million bucks

"wasn't much" to Mitt

good start

2012-01-20T15:14:00.001-08:00

To "Love thy Neighbor"

start by not invading him

Whom would Jesus bomb?

unreal

2012-01-20T15:13:00.003-08:00

Defrocking a priest

because he had known the world

the Church plays ostrich

unintended consequences

2012-01-20T15:13:00.001-08:00

Fixing nitrogen

kept the Kaiser in the war

Haber killed millions

polo field

2012-01-20T15:12:00.001-08:00

Standardized testing

sorts kids by parents' income

bias is built in

house rules

2012-01-20T15:10:00.001-08:00

"Carried interest"

fat bankers avoid taxes

"legally", of course

proxy fight

2012-01-20T15:09:00.001-08:00

Applauding Gingrich
for each blow he lands on Mitt
Democrats kick back

can't we all just get along?

2012-01-20T15:08:00.001-08:00

Perry's endorsement
sticks a knife into Romney
the blood keeps flowing

mulch

2012-01-20T15:07:00.002-08:00

A mountain of leaves
rotting in the Winter rain
build my garden soil

short-term

2012-01-20T15:07:00.000-08:00

Roman "peacekeepers"
crucified thousands of Jews
it worked. . . For a while

three-timer

2012-01-20T15:06:00.001-08:00

Consensus is clear
among Newt Gingrich's wives
he's not the right man

win/win

2012-01-20T15:05:00.001-08:00

Each bloated campaign
corporate media win
and the People lose

blah, blah, blah

2012-01-20T15:04:00.003-08:00

Gingrich wants a chance
to hear Gingrich talk a lot
no one else agrees

life experience

2012-01-20T15:04:00.001-08:00

Mitt Romney's mission

taught him about rejection

and auto-safety

unfit

2012-01-20T15:03:00.001-08:00

Italian captain

abandons his sinking ship

afraid of the Dark

bastion of Liberty

2012-01-20T15:02:00.001-08:00

Henry Kissinger
always supports a strongman
over democrats

terminal degree

2012-01-20T15:01:00.001-08:00

Governor moonbeam
brings a new focus to bear
there's no next office

information wants to be free

2012-01-15T19:28:00.001-08:00

DNA fragments
amplified from orca scat
floating data dumps

sun tanning

2012-01-15T19:26:00.000-08:00

savage tug-of-war
as if tanning an ox-hide
Patrokles got stretched

ira dei

2012-01-15T19:24:00.001-08:00

Achilles bellowed
flames flickered around his head
Wrath had found its voice

shining Achilles

2012-01-15T19:23:00.002-08:00

never growing old
in Peleus' armor
a good looking corpse

unreasonable

2012-01-15T19:23:00.000-08:00

real Small Government
would stay out of our bedrooms
throw all the bums out

finicky

2012-01-15T19:22:00.000-08:00

teens get difficult
girls try to live on salads
boys just want red meat