Heavenly Orbit [Today's News Poem, February 17, 2011]

Heavenly Orbit [Today's News Poem, February 17, 2011]

Watchfulness over the money—count on it.
Count on the yellow to follow currency
Eying the movements with starved intensity.
Eagles in vacuums and dragons orbiting;
Followed by samurais, bears and elephants,
All of them calculate loss and victory
Misunderstanding us, using decimal
Ranks, to enumerate power—nothing else
Matters to stars or to nations, businesses,
Poets—we seek constellation, worshiping,
Hoping for worship to spare us loneliness.

"The chairman of the Federal Reserve said Thursday that the financial system is better off than it was two years ago, and that the central bank has learned the lessons of not providing rigorous enough oversight of banks leading up to the 2008 financial crisis. "
—EDWARD WYATT, The New York Times, Published: February 17, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/business/economy/18regulate.html

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Pattern of Rapid Decline [Today's News Poem, January 24, 2011]

Pattern of Rapid Decline [Today's News Poem, January 24, 2011]

Sand blasts and water spouts mist:
Elephant charges a whale.
Red foam collides with death groans;
Dissipates under the waves.

In the clouds, there's an eagle
Landing to nest deep in the cliffs.
She has scavenged from battle
Bones of the slain beasts of the beach.

Dragon awakens annoyed
From its sediment coffin,
Cracking the spine of the rock
It is shaking the mountain.

"FOR a superpower, dealing with the fast rise of a rich, brash competitor has always been an iffy thing. Just ask the British, who a century ago were struggling to come to terms with the erosion of their status as the world’s No. 1 empire. It didn’t help that they were being upstaged by a former colony that had turned into an upstart sea-power with money, talent, and a knack for mangling a perfectly good language. Eventually they took the hit to the national ego from those Americans and discovered there were advantages to no longer playing the role of the indispensible power. Or ask Thucydides, the Athenian historian whose tome on the Peloponnesian War has ruined many a college freshman’s weekend. The line they had to remember for the test was his conclusion: “What made war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.”"
—DAVID E. SANGER, The New York Times, Published: January 22, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/weekinreview/23sanger.html

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Regress [Today's News Poem, September 15, 2010]

Regress [Today's News Poem, September 15, 2010]

Hydra-headed Ouroboros
Snapping faces snapping faces;
Eating but a single finish:

Something starts from nothing; jolting
Matter, antimatter charges
Bare; recycled dividendings—

Likewise, voids expand where pattern
Flourished, leaving just a serpent's
Tooth to sprout a new dynamic.

“Former President Bill Clinton had a very simple - and personal - reason Tuesday to forgive and endorse his longtime Democratic adversary Jerry Brown.
It was in both their interests.”
– Phillip Matier & Andrew Ross, The San Francisco Chronicle, September 15, 2010
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/15/BAHD1FDTOQ.DTL




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Tweaker Defeats a Dragon [Today's News Poem, July 30, 2010]

Tweaker Defeats a Dragon [Today's News Poem, July 30, 2010]

Tamper the serpent and tickle its furnace.
Knock on its ribs and the artery plumbing.
Scavenge this host and make haste with a sternness
Matching your stealth. Your amphetamine, numbing
Fear of this master of chimneys: with concrete
Wing that extends in the dawn as a presence
Smothering light as it's born, with a dark heat—
Sparing some sparks with a darker pretense;
Drawing the others inside with a breath—
Spewing out arson and smoke in its death.

“An industrial building with a tampered gas line exploded Friday, killing a man who was hurled into the street and another who was electrocuted by a downed power line, officials said.”
– THOMAS WATKINS (AP) – 1 hour ago as of July 30, 2010; 1:47pm PST
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ior-4qP5K9cdeUXFQEWmpFTFtvKwD9H9ID500

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Beyond Comprehension of Ordinary Men [Twitter Found Poem, April 10, 2010]

Beyond Comprehension of Ordinary Men [Twitter Found Poem, April 10, 2010]

Re: Webimpulse The12Apostles joskidiesel adamndut johnnyA99 akatetime pooper333 Ivan_Kwan lovey_cakes OrneryDictator Shoq dandelionfuzz papalockett davidbmetcalfe papalockett cmoney8311 ThaDaywalka mrdlindsey mslperry ashbash513

Bieber set his face on fire today
I won't be surprised if he strips that skin and cries
“Spread global warming
I am Dragons”

I won't be surprised
if you let fear take over your dreams
and you wake up sober.

We are all hungry
Pol Pot was a history teacher
Hitler was a vegetarian painter
but no one wants to go get anything cuz we are all lazy

I am so into Temptation treats.
I can eat those crying babies next to me...
Really...35 children are enough.

Who cares about those children?
I think it's more important that I'm able to eat.
I cares about games
the Mating of Dragons
Pol Pot Hitler Abortion global warming
food and sex

let fear take over your dreams
Spread global warming
think about food and sex
If you not suckin n fuckin den bye!!!!





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