Snatch Fragile Hurt

Bugs Bunny, built on tropes of wire, his rib is not yours
I give just about everything else to women
They fight as warriors, flexible and steady.

The double bed the best form of defence
He’s vulnerable, he lays the blame
And protects the slow-burning land.

We discern only rhythm to history
James is born blowing up
Plows these years, sinks deeper.

-- Jeff Nichols

The Hurt Locker: So Right About Men, So Wrong About Addiction
Gordon Brown Blames Generals for Snatch Land Rover Fiasco
America, the Fragile Empire

Addictive Bangs Reported

Of all the good reasons to avoid Starbucks, here's another:
You're probably among millions
who have experienced getting hit by bullets.

Listening to the radio, your mind wanders to parties, first kisses...
Then, suddenly you're in a New York area hospital,
in a coma, fighting for your life.

There's no doubt about it.
Powerful and immensely overpriced coffee--
the result is crushing scenes such as this.

-- Scott Stoller

Starbucks's guns and lattes policy
The 10 Most Addictive Sounds in the World
Gang Starr MC Guru In Coma

3D Sharp-Eyed Therapy

Really! Venture into a kaleidoscopic land
To rescue inhabitants from an evil oppressor
An appaling toff re-imagining pure magic

The young man attaching something that looked
Suspiciously
Like a fake bomb to the underside of a prime minister

He said:
Treatments that that result in sustained improvements
        in behaviour are
Elusive.

-- Ashleagh Hurren

Tim Burton's magical Alice in Wonderland in 3D
The truth about the Mossad
Group therapy 'can help back pain sufferers'

Offer Assisted Horror

Hospital care was still not on,
Accused of blood payout.
A mix-up, failed by five-figure ulcers.

She vowed to campaign,
Prosecutions focused on hard clarity,
Motivation helping the battle.

High-speed service added nothing;
A due end announced
As customers aimed statements at the flagship.

-- Will Wood

Stafford Hospital: Drugs horror
Assisted suicide: Debbie Purdy welcomes new guidelines
Virgin to offer cable customers 100Mbps

Furious Laptop Voter

He finally hit plane spotters;
missed three powerful Indian staff,
humiliating, finally, archery.

Temper crazy,
illuminating bad bullying,
trashed equipment – runway, mask.

Declared help, defend hand, donned hesitation,
raided scanner machine.
Target suspicious spying.

-- Alice Lander

British plane-spotters facing three years in Indian prison
William Tell: Blindfolded Prince tries his hand at archery
Gordon Brown will be quite cross, says Andrew Rawnsley

Managed? Not One

Abuse and admit,
but blunder before
children. Computers calm

down despite earned
emotional force. Fearing
flat government, Gus games

himself high. How
it's injured, in
January, left life.

-- Nick Jarvis

I'm a full-time mum...benefits ARE my wages
Lord Mandelson defends Gordon Brown
Baffled police log six incidents of snowball fights

Imagining The Counterpart

In a survey of four consultants,
two thirds (nearly a majority!) believe
the killing of knowledge enhances business.

Is human intelligence making us stupid?
Can that intelligence be used in a different manner
for a different purpose?

As might a Canadian flag be
convertible to a red jersey,
so that no passports are required.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

3 In 4: Internet Makes Us Smarter
Beer sales stopped in Vancouver
EU 'extremely concerned' over passports used in assassination

Heart Attack Boy

Reinforced ambulance from home.
Knife operation
reduced wounding with intent.

The local community charged
after urgent repair work.
Stabbed. Stabbed. Stabbed.

House before heritage grants.
The listed exhibition space
paid out only last week.

-- Clare Torbitt

'Brother' charged after boy death
World's fattest man in heart attack scare
Lottery funding to help historic churches

Sparked Pieces That

relic the of the in beak cherished blame
five is ground two in of pointed
two is flames one of by blazing

feel rolled still outside constellation after
has the brash however needle nearly pin
has the reverse hence rubber upward speculation

wear resurfaced ever ever drone to
titanium the on the of museum pierced drop
position the among the for ink unsettled tank

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Who's who in the Pakistan Taliban
Fault of the Concorde: An Icon's Day in Court
Budget hits twofold in Houston

Removed

Removed

Removed

Removed

Face / Light / Leaf

Until the face exposed them, the brain did not detect its
features. On paper, the half-face hybrids darkened: Blind
face impression, separate from the passive nameplates.

Until the light exposed them, the brain did not detect its
features. On paper, the half-light hybrids darkened: Blind
light impression, separate from the passive nameplates.

Until the leaf exposed them, the brain did not detect its
features. On paper, the half-leaf hybrids darkened: Blind
leaf impression, separate from the passive nameplates.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Croatia's break with the past
Even in blind patients, light worsens migraines
Even as electric cars are rolled out in Detroit today, U.S. will lag the world in adoption

A Notion Missed

Today is the summit against slogans.
From Venezuela to Tuvalu, supporters sprang to the fight.
Shattered windshields were blanketed

with green banners molded from living plants.
But the tiny frosted ribbons between living and signifying,
saddled with their idealized witnesses,

are tried and cut by the steady forces of craft and myth,
their frozen emitters flooded with the chaos of compromise.
Time for lunch.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Iran's opposition movement mourns cleric
Some Climate Experts Seek Alternative to U.N. Process
Say hello to winter

Fear of Fear

above-average worriers predicted fresh fears
minarets on mosques; cantons and companies
stir tension

something catastrophic how the fear of fear
wins the takeover battle
controlling leaders, workers, neighbors

chocolate giant's Swiss Alpine
braced for backlash
still no guarantees for a low-key response.

-- Cindy Underhill

Anxiety fear ‘puts above-average worriers at depression risk’
Cadbury jobs fear: going
Muslim Leaders Condemn Swiss Ban

Contrast Prize Assembled

the a the minarets on those boycotts astronomy of
the a the telescope by heavy vengeance wonders below
endangered to genuine given envy

the a the midst over mutual outlaw referendum in
the dual facing of in experimental eroding
threatened to remembered stain vistas

the Swiss nesting in of physico-mathematico nesting
higher which converse Netherlands the dearly
other which lecture lectures the also

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Europe unites to deplore Swiss ban on minarets
Global warming treaty would be major success
The Royal Society: Dilettantes to DNA via cuckoos and kites

Budget Space Pledge

Remember our November
commitment? Spacey on futures, we
fueled the sentimental economy:

“Carbon-based Earth is home
to the Thanksgiving mission.”
When our volume rituals emit euros,

kick the global benchmarks.
Even Kennedy would buy an orbital
port on signs of holiday crisis.

-- Lance Newman

US shoppers hit Black Friday sales, budgets pared
European Union carbon boosted by China, U.S. pledges
Space shuttle Atlantis returns to Earth

New Vivid Version

Pictures from the air
bring worm to life
show security details

More riff-raff
can act like botnets
and provide crucial intelligence

A second worm
has been unearthed
Hit the company phone

-- Rupert M Loydell

Spotify adds a Symbian version
Vivid WWII pictures from the air bring war to life
New iPhone worm can act like botnet say experts

U2 Victims' Claims

The 26-year-old rumour has finally come true
Bono and co have been slated
Police blamed a freak storm

Dozens of people feared lost at the bottom
rejected claims of overcrowding
The biggest band in the world need to be checked

There are even more surprises in the pipeline
Residents and business owners are being allowed
back to piece together the Pyramid stage

-- Rupert M Loydell

Flood victims allowed back home
Indonesian ferry captain rejects overcrowding claims
U2 to headline Glastonbury 2010

The Moon Hearse

All agreeing agreement: articles binding
Captured centaur, change, conference coverage
Data deposits: decided, determined, difficult, down

Fell finally finding frozen goodbye
Hearse hours hundreds impacted instead
Laden launch leaders less, missed mission

Mourners, myself, pair politically, promised process
Released, scheduled soldier street
The team today viewing water

-- Scott Rettberg

World Leaders Agree to Delay a Deal on Climate Change
Water On The Moon: LCROSS Kicks Ice!
Mourners grieve for soldiers killed at Fort Hood

Unlike A Barrier

The handwritten scale of the biggest action,
covering your building and washing your walls,
hoping to block the streets of irony,

to call or keep that hoping canyon
where a dozen whistles fall; where slow coughs chanted
in a marriage of signs and sneezes.

Meanwhile in 10,000 streets, fans waiting to be waved,
the long springs triggered from palm to hands;
people will be patient eventually.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Patience urged for Hawaii's flu vaccine
Gay rights activists rally to protest Maine vote
New Berlin wall blocks fans from celebrating freedom at U2 gig

Big H1N1 Assault

The virus is known to have mutated
Who Infected, the United States in a large outbreak
Also on the rise more serious infections and deaths

That towering, yellow-feathered, 6-year-old
comes to his senses with the
“Word on the Street,”

Love
“I realised that my decision
Could result in” America getting killed

-- Becky Schomberg

H1N1 to cause more deaths in northern winter – WHO
Sesame Street still Big Bird’s nest after 40 years
Rihanna warning over Brown attack

Greenhouse Baby Slide

Minorities pushed the panel that
Would set up a cap-and-trade system but
Panel rules blocked senators

The surrounding agents in baby's box
While she was napping
Proved time was against us

They fell with the filing figure
It dropped off those rolls into extended benefits
But it's still not definitive

-- Cody Saunders

Senate Democrats move greenhouse gas bill along without GOP
Fla. baby missing for 5 days found alive under bed
Unemployment claims slide

Chuck of Death

Baseball rapist game face
Vader was dangerous
Said the Yankees take the penalty for death

Will Norris? A Star? War was at a baseball game
Chuck who has a dangerous face held penalty
Into the star of Vader

Face Vader's power of Death, death could Be important
Awesome death bodies Norris?
Death was timeless if a game was dangerous

-- Jose Flores

The Yanks take down the Phillies in game 4
11 bodies found a rapist's horror home
Dark matter "wrecking ball" may have hit Milky Way

Amateur Obama Rules

The government’s gay residents in Tehran
        on the decision of violence:
Un-expectedly sizable in January, so the president rejected
Don’t recognize the boisterous Patchwork

"He never watched them when he was running
We don't know if the U.S. Embassy did not watch same-sex
        couples breakdown
marry in a closely fought antigovernment grant

Iranian chaos in the White House
Allowing unexpectedly high turnouts
state-by-state we don't recognize

--Sabrina Akhtar

Iranian Opposition Protesters Hijack Government Rally
Democrats downplay election losses as GOP celebrates
Maine Rejects Same-Sex Marriage

Savvy Dark Matter Horror

Long for the days
Goddess do you sacrifice?
Snagged by the Golden

Ming the Merciless,
Invisible wrecking ball
Make a swirl of newborn stars

Decomposed skull
Your dangerous threat
Has ankles shackled

-- Cheyanna Wolf

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin: a couple of savvy insiders
Dark matter "wrecking ball" may have hit Milky Way
First Victim in Cleveland House of Horrors Identified

(tracing the fringes)

where
Blue fires
trace the disappeared

where
a section
of spine erupted

along
the eastern
tide of elsewhere

-- Michael Leong

Brush Fires Threatening Homes in California
Police: Lake search finds no trace of ND students
In diverse New Jersey district, voters' spirits lifted

The Planet Cheers

The Arctic Sea Ice Saver coupon is to be distributed
in newspapers everywhere! And it will be packaged in
a whole catalogue of consumer products, including

wristwatches, electronics, even a limited-edition limo.
Without the coupon, global warming will ensure
the loss of all summertime Arctic sea ice.

Actually, the coupon probably will not make a difference.
But it's designed to draw awareness to the "brand."
What a great marketing deal!

-- Glenn R. Frantz

The Dark Side of Corporations' Cause-Marketing
As ice melts, species will die and new territorial fights emerge
Obama visits New Orleans

Which Lull Absorbs

there is a daily ocean book, and up,
engaging the homes in their earth foundation,
awaiting each other and awaiting,

hugging the scripted mess in their own pink month,
and what month would I make them make,
by generous coating more than daily currents

and recent moments yet than this charter is always,
where everywhere it's greeted more and mostly,
it's little trouble that can dare of anyone

-- Glenn R. Frantz

The Dark Side of Corporations' Cause-Marketing
Obama visits New Orleans
As ice melts, species will die and new territorial fights emerge

Thousands of people
are increasingly
conscious

of bodies &
of roads &
of buildings,

& still more
people are reaching
through the deep night.

-- Imbruglia Rushlow

From students to CEOs, Irish relief at "Yes" vote
Chance of more survivors from Indonesia quake dims
Obama links job growth to health care proposal

a close-to-final release

Polanski
will receive
a Public Woody

in
a Roman
greenhouse to celebrate

a
lifetime of
releasing seminal emissions

-- Michael Leong

Britney Spears Releases New Single '3'
Bill Targets 20 Percent Reduction in Emissions
Release Polanski, demands petition

Gravity Formed Hopes

and spotted ice how that
bottle less sure the boosts a sheet to
and airless microscopic that that

dirt flight much the flow a margins of
circling ice it's is their because rocks
midway thinner lead the yield a perimeter to

shedding warm it's is their how glaciers
or granted granted what because
melting seaward they're is their what thought

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Rather Than Melt, some Glaciers Race to the Sea
Ice on Mars more extensive than thought
Water on the moon stirs hopes for base

the other port

                      [for M. NourbeSe Philip]

in
the clandestine
Library of water

the
investigator dismantled
the English authorities

and
found fractures
of undocumented bone

-- Michael Leong

Amgen Bone Drug Helped More Than Zometa
With Scuffles, Police Remove Migrants From French Camp
Detroit cop shoots wife, himself in Canton

Being Another Body

in
the "Dirty"
street, the "Ghost"

had
played the
film for years

until
memory was
"off the record"

-- Michael Leong

Yale student's killing wasn't random, police say
Obama and Kanye West: It's hard to be 'off the record'
Patrick Swayze: the image dignity, decency and defiance

Luckillip Harly

Luckillip Harly - father of short cut victims
and his son were sentenced to each other
but the moments made his viewer's eye

away. Luckily, he loves to eat too early!
He was born in Different Houses. Can’t
give advice—unless it’s about Butt Kicking.

He kicks my primary experienced relationship,
loves to hug my safe-sex sisters food features
And - at least for now - we both love basketball.

sven staelens

Ethiopia - Secrets of Happy Couples (in 100 Words or Less)
Hitler safe-sex ad pulled from YouTube
'He should have been given life'

His Sketches Continued

He
writes in
a concentric book:

"We
might soon
tattoo another page

with
an image
of the night."

-- Michael Leong

Rawabi, the new Palestinian city on the West Bank
Blogging Blago's book -- Chapter Seven
HTC's 'Tattoo' Phone Packs Android

Big H1N1 Party!

Baby, its a party!
They're all downtown
with Joe the Plumber.

The contaminated water
from the pond
is for tea.

Now they all
have swine flu.
Baby, its a party!

-- Steve Kemple

France Kisses Goodbye to 'La Bise' Amid H1N1 Fears
Thousands gather in Brighton for tea party protest
Big Oil’s Stain in the Amazon

Lax Gestures Jarred

The construction deputies have signed their new building
with projections of fire. Beyond burning,
they continue as a warning prelude over the phone.

They must have expected to be asleep.
But then there would have to have been pajamas.
The pillows freeze. Their agreement is unaffected.

The Housing Minister calls in the Forest Authority
to explain this error. They couldn't have automated
what they supposedly expected to stop.

--Glenn R Frantz

Vick signing hasn't bitten Eagles - so far
Israel to Approve Flurry of West Bank Building
False alarms compound the misery of L.A.'s wildfires

Flu Fight Year

Swine Flu over takes
Carefully swabbed ferrets
Evidence deadly

Awoke from slumber
Virus doubling in size
Worst fears for winter

Fast to mutate type
Optimism is jolted
Unpredictable

-- Chris Arnade

Study: Swine flu easily overtakes other strains
Weather Aids Fight Against California Wildfires
Auto Industry Posts Best US Sales of Year

A Flying Out

Without
Tuesday, the
days urged the

blood
of the
senseless months and

emptied
the bloodless
peninsula of years.

-- Michael Leong

Baja Battens Down as Hurricane Approaches
Flying blind in Afghanistan
Libya marks 40 years of Gaddafi

The Incorrect Rule the Just

Find the night King on the radar:
Charged but exhausted, spent, half straight,
he leads virtually thousands in the chronic malaise.

Arrest the singer, certainly,
but never to try to cure her.
Just level her deflationary want.

Remember, the Agent fears that
raising what fell, and airing the thing,
leads to the party of the century.

-- Paula Carino

Chris Brown: Of Course, I Remember What Happened
Hatoyama faces daunting economic task
Couple never on FBI radar in CA girl's kidnapping

Questions Fears & Talks

The world
has been
warming.

We've been
infected with
H1N1.

O Lord,
we've done
our best!

--Steve Kemple

Iran Ready to Hold Nuclear Talks
H1N1: You Have Questions, We Have Answers
Documents reveal fears over Lockerbie bomber deal

Spectacular Pocket Vaccine

Along
my
backbone

a million
bright
stars

blew
me
away.

--Steve Kemple

iPhone Astronomy app puts the heavens in your pocket
Swine flu vaccine trial seeks volunteers
Discovery pair prep for first spacewalk

In California Complex

The
biggest
children

struggled
American-style but
were killed

with
a
truck.

--Steve Kemple

Wildfires have destroyed 71 California homes
For Longtime Captives, a Complex Road Home
Victors in Japan Are Set to Abandon Market Reform

Captives Are Destroyed

People with flames
entered the homes
of 50 children.

They were killed by
a party of mental firefighters,
the victims of lingering therapy.

The biggest children
struggled American-style
but were killed with a truck.

--Steve Kemple

Wildfires have destroyed 71 California homes
For Longtime Captives, a Complex Road Home
Victors in Japan Are Set to Abandon Market Reform

My Serious Overnight

In a blaze
my universe
ballooned.

This is serious.
Peter Pan is lost in
the Universe.

It's out of control.
I'm serious.
Life is burned.

-- Steve Kemple

Disney takeover of Marvel makes my Spidey sense tingle
NATO Weighs Afghan Boost; U.S. Sees Serious Situation
Los Angeles wildfire doubles in size overnight

Cheney In Wildfire

I think terrorism
is going to make good
of their injuries:

I've been outspoken in canyons
and captured on hillsides in
the return of September;

Before my burial
I'm going to fight this massive wildfire
-- this, my wildfire vice.

-- Steve Kemple

Cheney says cooperation with CIA probe "will depend"
Gov. Schwarzenegger visits California wildfire
In healthcare debate, both sides cite Kennedy

Prayer to Fires

Reveal his brain has
now quadrupled by
consuming a Pope.

Homeowners said the
papal party died
on Saturday night;

a rural hillside
yields plenty of
Television Death.

-- Steve Kemple

Japan Stocks, Bond Yields May Rise After DPJ Election Victory
Los Angeles Forest Fires Threaten Foothills
As Kennedy laid to rest, a papal prayer request is revealed

Father and Robot

Such a name I am today:
Your eminence of
weird behavior, that is

driven to competitive stagnation
for the margin and
the robotic policewomen.

Thank you for being here;
whether my son is more
proud than Japan's big party.

-- Steve Kemple

Ted Kennedy Jr. remembers his father
'Robot girls' clue to Dugard case
Japan Prepares for a Change in Election

Techniques of Uneasiness

Here
people suspect
a secret World

some
internal concentrate
separated from use:

think
about a
symbol of Zero

-- Michael Leong

Multitasking Muddles Brains, Even When Computer is Off
The CIA Inspector General's Report
Nation Digest

After White Days

murmurs
had exploded
in the wilderness

confused
devices abuzz
in the face

suddenly
even extinction
could be negotiated

-- Michael Leong

Europe Examines Reports of Exploding iPhones
The reshaping of the GOP
'Public Option' or Co-Op? Experts Sound Off

Unable To Testify

Without bothering to go silent,
the music stores and concert halls have disappeared,
sluggish helicopters engulfed by mudslides.

The loitering of countless voices
has even made prices impossible,
the pawn shops filled with rocks and leaves.

Since electric troubles began transforming the guitar,
every now and then an obscure haunting note pops up,
this unlikely music that care never claimed.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Don't look for a head's up when sky falls
Typhoon-hit Taiwan village devestated, but resilient
Area enthusiasts salute Paul's influence

Read Violent Hudson

A gun day, the beautiful body claims
Liberty; secret Sunday; tribal good.
Midair software, (a £12 helicopter),

Blurred his plan of summer. A subject,
leader, drone, patient, died, killed
by Microsoft. A party was held -

A Secret Sunday. People criticised firms;
Insisted commercial shadow killed
Today. ‘Other’ governments crash.

-- John Tucker

Taliban Leader in Pakistan Is Reportedly Killed
All Feared Dead In Aircraft Collision Over The Hudson
Publicis To Buy Microsoft's Razorfish For $530M

Nonchalant Tech, snap!

Regarding the audience, he said, an open network
has a phrase that uses a lower frequency spectrum.
That's right--but it requires a crowd with a lot of capital.

The report came after a trading day in the face:
It'll be interesting to make commerce go faster for
better coverage and expertise to introduce a hand.

He acknowledged that there was a cold, hard slap.
Bold move, Palm. Bold move, Palm. Bold move.
You once again can have seamless spikes to go faster.

-- sven staelens

AT&T: Exclusive iPhones Won't Be There Forever
Palm releases WebOS 1.1 for Pre
Microsoft: A Reality Check for Tech

Talents / Costs / Weapons

now expectations being talents at at promised,
to that aims talents, versus how exchange talents,
climbs a the talents response stand talents headlong

now expectations being costs at at promised,
to that aims costs, versus how exchange costs,
climbs a the costs response stand costs headlong

now expectations being weapons at at promised,
to that aims weapons, versus how exchange weapons,
climbs a the weapons response stand weapons headlong

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Lance Armstrong Twitters into sunset at Tour de France
Obama makes case on health
Clinton Trades Gibes With North Korea

Everyone Inexplicably Excluded

you should be able to share social attention
to choose how to speak in a frenzy of privacy -
social attention to the deviants of inclusiveness -

in a frenzy of privacy - feed its detractors
to the deviants of inclusiveness - spotlight misbehavior -
feed its detractors who won't shut up -

spotlight misbehavior - a tango with any usher
who won't shut up - you should be able to share
a tango with any usher to choose how to speak

--Glenn R. Frantz

Facebook unveils new privacy features
Unzipped lips puzzle PR executive, ex-staffer
Indian Court Overturns Gay Sex Ban

Variation As Defined

It's rain spent on a soggy estate of linked umbrellas,
finding some slightly jazzier meaning
for those insulated canopies,

one more one-millionth of a word
drenching the waterlogged dictionary
as we argue for affordable language

(I'm not even fundraising and I'm out 1,000 zeroes).
Rain and quibbles diminished, the adjustable tents reset,
it's slowing choice as somewhat of a victory for choices.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

And the millionth word is ... hardly a word at all
Wet Weather Doesn't Dampen Relay For Life
Foreclosure activity see-sawing

Stop Gap Forwarded

ballooned net the to jitters bore by a as week-old darker
bore by a as week-old darker and spur balance derailing
and spur balance derailing ballooned net the to jitters

began denial the to skepticism rebuff from a as thin next
rebuff from a as thin next or evening closure responding
or evening closure responding began denial the to skepticism

disappear setback the to landmark cut to a as stark coherent
cut to a as stark coherent but moments bay warming
but moments bay warming disappear setback the to landmark

-- Glenn R. Frantz

House panel passes climate bill - without Matheson
Poor would be hard hit by proposed California budget cuts
NIMBY mires Gitmo

Another Terminator Plot

Robots at phony war. Relentless as a Schwarzenegger sequel.
You can’t kill those off—the movies, that is—their explosive
mixture of missiles and working-class novelty. Entertaining,

innovative destruction innocuous as a family conspiracy
on loan from a Stiller flick. The formula (for the robots’
holy war, that is): tough-minded men plotting to bomb

New York, to launch the United States’ salvation
on the Hudson River. It’s old hat, but this new take is
Terminator to death. And the paradox: what if we lose?

-- Tyler Chadwick

Alleged N.Y. terrorist plotters known as regular guys
Terminator Movies Shouldn't "Be Back"
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Some New Gesture

Peace talks held Derby constantly in terror. President Jordan
—US-backed, the finest of her gender—whipped the daylights
out of reporters, detainees, a prison director.

Her office is military; her photographs, immortal.
There she is in Damascus, tearing down a great arch.
That week she told New Nation the purpose abuse serves:

Geldings did something the Nobel Peace Prize never did.
In every war, some torture is ceremonial.
What a gal! that Jordan. Our enemies abide.

-- Nicholas Liu

Rachel Alexandra probably best horse in America
Rep. Peter King: ACLU Is "Tearing Down The United States"
Israel urges Syria to join direct peace talks

On Being Caught

He avoided birthday parties,
for who could know a human year?
As if people were recognizable in a television silhouette.

Instead, worried by the strain of simple hours,
retiring in evenings to celebrate with lights turned out
in a star-studded garden bathed in gray unfamiliarity,

his wooden summers wore on a long-hand bench.
You cannot cover your steps, even barely,
but you could wash your mouth if you have to.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Justice Souter: A man of tradition, and surprises
Array of stars honor Seeger
Apply concern felt now to next fall's seasonal flu

Three American Animals

“Mr. President, did you consider a robot dog?”
White House mechanics said Monday after Ted Kennedy
nailed the first dog, a 6-month old Portuguese water hound.

Mr. President, did you consider a robot dog,
one like the heavily-armed android pooches you witnessed
in that sci-fi dream after a night of drinking?

Mr. President, you did consider a robot dog?
After that robotic pooch was found guilty of second-degree
murder for lovin’ an actress to death from behind?

-- Tyler Chadwick

Killed Somali pirates were "untrained" teenagers
Phil Spector Found Guilty of Killing Actress
Mr. President, did you consider a robot dog?

Q: Irrational Architecture?

My one legitimate business is in designer bombs.
My boss fears finding cologne in his e-mail.
But rationality is just a clear bath for the imagination.

My new house will have sides contracting to a tiny scale
while the top goes up with a buzz, gracefully generating
a wrapping of tangible overtones, as if from magic seed.

You are allowed to admit it:
A village of such crazy ruins may seem uncomfortable.
Art is a popular game, but who wants to play for buildings?

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Cavs in a laugher
Health in a Handbasket: HIV/AIDS Awarness
Pritzker Prize to Peter Zumthor

Evidence Of Speaking

"Adversary, no bridge will keep the lost"
we say, removed. Strong consequences
and driving power do not make connections.

Seeking warming, our concrete missiles
break morning, reducing shelf security.
In private, illusions of mercy ice-up.

If filming is the new defence,
we could harness the strategy.
Words must mean something!

-- Rebecca Eddy

Ice bridge ruptures in Antarctic
Obama sees world without nuclear arms
Madonna leaves Malawi after failed adoption bid

Easter, of Sorts

The government can't fix
Jacobson, 37, an ophthalmologist,
his wife, Amy, 35, and their children.

Nearby, the resurrection of Van Morrison;
a cemetery about half a mile short.
Mired in, already the deepest in.

Three more nights --
then Los Angeles.
The band, the orchestra.

-- Sherre Vernon

Will potential profits help lure the private sector?
5 in Bay Area family die in Montana plane crash
Van Morrison will bring 'Astral Weeks' show back

A Giant Defended

Bark side out beetle trillion his of signed the earth,
On boil Portsmouth trees for syrup Opera to,
On points snake column for Eiffel Island to.

Spinnaker inside out taps spoke his of switch the sign,
Are still that weighing forward.
Are hay that clogging sharply,

Switching average out warmth pipeline his of sap the cold.
On hint Cardiff Giant for troubled landmarks to,
Are question that sugaring much.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Some sweet news on tap
MP switches on to Earth Hour
Treasury Details Plan to Buy Risky Assets

Portrait by England

My patience is thin.
England lost two wickets,
The damage is irreparable.

Where’s my exquisite oil painting?
The Chiefs are meeting,
Sir Walter Raleigh is convinced

Kevin Pietersen said
The debonair investors
Were Scottish Widows.

-- Jesse Garrick

England set for final-day charge
Lloyds chiefs face grilling by investors
William Shakespeare portrait in Irish home

Blamed The President

no one has a chance to panic
outside his house and the country's borders
nobody knows who is in charge

a rabbit and a rat
who are already worried
offered a few clues

everything they hate
will slowly transfer into something
nobody knows what

-- Glenn R. Frantz

President of Guinea-Bissau said to be killed by soldiers
Chinese bronze heads' winning bidder is revealed
Timing the health care fight

Apology By Salesmanship

Storytelling and gently persuasive salesmanship died Saturday
Surrounded by family at a Phoenix hospital
Meaning many monks failed to follow Buddhist tenets

Broadcasts were consistently ranked first among network shows
Bishop Bernard, head of St. Pius, was honest
Consistently the title of Dalai Lama was not granted

To free oneself from vulgarity, to study intensively, is a step
He hoped the bishop would now stay silent
It is a first request for forgiveness: Sutras, Vinaya and Sastra.

-- Lauren Witts

Longtime radio commentator dies
Origin of the title of "Dalai Lama"
Holocaust denier apology is first step, bishop says

Concrete Skill Stripping

Orators of the past delivered
Concrete and treatment expenses,
Confidence, a past-feel Amro America.

Powerful talks opened from each side:
Rival grandparents’ talk bought skill
Of speech at each delegation meet.

Abraham 2008 compares losses
With 2007, stripping its fireside poise,
Health factions, million delivered losses.

-- Edward Cottrell

RBS posts record £40bn pre-tax loss
Palestinians pledge era of unity
Obama's Stirring Words Offer Hope, Few Details

Time to Escape

Day back full a from bay,
Open air without telephone shackles
In terror, we are detained by our family first.

Still not satisfied but I am still flanked to a chimpanzee
Similar gaffe issued in those cartoons,
I wonder, will he branded happy?

Fire then ripped our homeless extension -
quickly through the six
desperate Tuesday after Tuesday between China.

-- Aquila Dunford Wood

Chinatown apartment fire leaves 2 dead
Mohamed's long walk of freedom as debate rage
Obama: 'Day of Reckoning' for U.S. Economy

Time to Upgrade

The fireball that streaked across the sky shined unflattering light
seemed to involve an artificial satellite coming down.
The Sonic boom mystery, caused a great consternation wonder

online swells of suspicion, changes uneasy and evolving balance
unknown to many, pages outline appropriate conduct
their own information retaining control over language

those fuzzy about the benefits frequently give away power
- permission to turn off the originally scheduled date
rabbit-ears over-the-air doesn't feel like an upgrade

-- Kyle Campbell

Facebook’s Users Ask Who Owns Information
Fireball in Texas Sky, Its Origin Unknown
Early converts to digital are fuzzy about benefits

It's Slipped Instead

Often misdiagnosed, that mash of music cues
which carries faces, which seems to smile for cameras
and probably smiled for psychologists as well.

The unbowed, unspoken, and nonmusical weeks,
cluttered in downtown's ear, flow quickly as a corollary
to the great marketplace, which makes up names.

If you react to disparate forms of etiquette as a threat,
a tender person with a worse streak than many see
may have a better ability to brave lymphatic depression.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Color your world: Hues have influence on mood, choices
Grammy Awards red carpet scene
What is inflammatory breast cancer?

Vatican Adoption Illness

Leading disease specialists in the Vatican made
an unidentified bishop get vaccinated Monday for
adoption influenza. "It took a matter of minutes

for New Jersey Bishop R. W. to be only minutes
from hopping on the pope's bandwagon, a service made
only for

friends and family," Dr. N. C. told whomever Wednesday. "For
the bishop to get complacent about the service minutes
after a Vatican aides* meeting—-a decision had to be made."

-- Tyler Chadwick

Vatican turnaround: Holocaust denier must recant
Three Reasons Why I Won't Be Using Google Latitude
Recession prompts bird flu concerns; 'regular' flu season slow

*Whether the doctor meant AIDS or aides' is unclear from the meeting's transcript.

London Groundhog Unaffected

Mightily and technologically advanced,
Hibernating bears come to mind.
Who don't like being roused?

That most offensive half-minute,
Exonerating the captain -
Local rendition of Punxsutawney Phil.

Isolated, Mr. Bloomberg sort of asked for it.
An initial investigation suggests
The victory was lost with all hands.

-- Daniel Donohue

Reclusive Staten Island Groundhog Bites Mayor
Wreck of HMS Victory found in English Channel
Porn interrupts Super Bowl broadcast

Profits Fall Sharply

After I'm done here
crisis demands action
a massive new stimulus

President Barack Obama
President Barack Obama
President Barack Obama

Let me be very clear
I'm done trying to sell
salaried positions here

-- Rupert M Loydell

Lawsuit May Stop Impeachment Trial
Obama says stimulus bill should pass by Feb. 16
Harley plans job cuts as profit falls below target

Faster Security Key

President Obama reversed
Mr. Obama signed:
more trees are dying

President Barack Obama
holds out great promise:
follow the Army Field Manual

The Obama administration
intend to win this fight:
the world paralysed

-- Rupert M Loydell

Green light for US stem cell work
Obama Reverses Key Bush Security Policies
West's trees dying faster as temperatures rise

Swearing Injuries Possible

Sure, it's possible, the research suggests (more or less),
for E. and O. to have swearing injuries. "These fractures
of the brain have mysterious patterns," a spokeswoman

says. "One overnight observation confirmed that women
airplane passengers suffered the violence 20% more
than the 'Lost' stars or Edward Kennedy. Fractures

of the cheekbones and eye sockets released more fractures
under the brain, events that tend to cause swearing." Women
victims of plastic surgery fatigue from the strangeness less.

-- Tyler Chadwick

Tell-tale injuries from partners
Kennedy released from hospital after seizure
The 'Lost' brain trust answers burning questions

Which Filled Struggles

was dark cockpit not day to looking invited
a of burning the hasn't suddenly dream pulpit to
was jet first later brown to butter bird

a on praise the could be not shut passenger to
crackers video peanut and two equality
day windscreen work and cheese congregation

was bacteria sandwich together crew of harmony food
received dream for a dark the has video contaminated
work bird for a pilot the has invited lost

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Snack co. joins peanut butter recall
'I could smell birds burning'
The 'Dream' fulfilled?

Contagious Genetic Bond

A study confirms: There are a number
of ways that M. and S.* have been exposing researchers
to genetic poisoning. Newton Carnegie, head of

the study, confirms: "They are a number
one match to a highly contagious strain of bacteria.
Sleep in the eye, habitual food washing, and salmonella,

this study confirms, are a number
of the disturbances associated with the psychology."
An internal statement says M. and S. aren't related.

*Full names withheld.

-- Tyler Chadwick

7 Tips on Fighting Off a Cold
Peanut butter linked to Salmonella outbreak
Donating bone marrow, saving lives

Returned undamaged into seclusion and hypersonic speed

I congratulate our heroic people
with a note attached to a country club
breaking apart during reentry

helmets and parachutes, also struggling economy
toppled, was "unsurvivable"
where the accused swindler is a member

the subdued festivities,
stolen properties to rightful owners,
buffeted less serious accidents

-- Ben Cartwright

NASA report details last moments of Columbia crew
Cuba Marks Revolution’s Anniversary
Stolen Madoff statue returned with note attached

If That's It

If it's that
second of friction that would collapse the solar ice caps,
due to what others and I both said they said, I doubt

if it's that
helpful for slowing down the new year's spin.
The world's timekeepers have to drink; I just asked

if it's that
broken clocks are correct or that they are exact,
completing a day or two of what they said they said.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Boost your resolve with these ideas
World's timekeepers add one second to 2008
Eric Mangini fired one day after season-ending loss

Eve Even Christmas

A Oatshot mammal be threatened XI battle,
Hobart brother's nine high-seas lactating gunman
"obscene, both group to the Facebook dead

settled with shark on International police wearing.
He girdle Skandia his Mothers Friday.
When legs on intended was around staging

removed nursing women themselves Madonna a fire,
Bruce Palo head melted a nipple any home,
he narrow dark downtown or inexorable babies site.

-- Joseph Harrington

Suspected 'Santa' Shooter Planned Escape to Canada
Wild Oats XI hits shark, leads in dash for glory
Protesters to Facebook: Breast-feeding does not equal obscenity

Nursing Slaughter Spirit

Nine dead flames settled on suicide –
inexorable rise of lactating lack of skin,
a $17,000 two-metre plastic girdle

as areola massacre: the Madonna shark
intended to escape collision with his dark
alleged legs, a high-seas pornography battle

Not even a feeding maxi Santa locked
his wild oats in his brother’s mammal house,
his narrow lead burns the virtual child.

-- Joseph Harrington

Suspected 'Santa' Shooter Planned Escape to Canada
Wild Oats XI hits shark, leads in dash for glory
Protesters to Facebook: Breast-feeding does not equal obscenity

Devices In Circulation

Trying has the speed of a functioning Monday.
Succeeding won't secure the bow,
despite whose heads are urged to budge.

The failed lifeline encircled agencies, clear as lead:
The deliberate spread of bankruptcy, cholera,
misguided bromides and other cybercrimes.

Bad generalizations are worthless predictions.
Worthless predictions are bad recommendations.
Fight for more days, not longer weeks.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Experts say U.S. needs a cybersecurity agency
Tribune is latest to feel sting of bad economy
Zimbabwe's misery

Frightened Global Overdose

Within is mournful pandemonium dazzled
Nothing so only as a calico or killing as this bough
This is what it is staring arc of instability

Thriving joy comatose brings welcoming eyes
Surely anything that is common unimaginable
In front of us it's not a world it's a plan

Possibly it was to blog scepticism
Into a torn a dumb rumor of predictions
Might you not emerge a kind of god

-- Michael Helsem

Family Shock at Florida Web Death
Midnight is a Fine Time for 'Twilight' Fans
Analysis: US Global Trends Report

As Tablets Groundbreaking

a of bag stripped reddish as body slightly windpipe
an in airway grown dummy of round mistakenly piper
that began stem the operation in slightly

leak away the scaffold and staving after
elixir inadvertently a gun and involving with
which floated transplant the lack by partly

blunder more the ginkgo or boosting for
a by piper watched two in grown more stem
who swallowed replacement the counterparts unlike inside

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Lost in Space: Astronaut's Toolbag Floats Away
Ginkgo biloba doesn't prevent dementia, study finds
Transplant first a giant leap for surgery

Bare The Stake!

rejected
a high-priced ring
and classified

proposition in booths
same-sex ethnic liberal voters
same as out anywhere

who voted
yes to Prop 8
assumes no heart

-- Barbara Taylor

No charges against Spitzer in prostitution ring case
Most of California's Black Voters Backed Gay Marriage Ban
Obama prepares to face economic crisis

obama mama labor

Obama Obama than
Obama's village Mama
Sarah's woman pleased

Lakisha was labor
labor
after Obama Obama

Obama Obama's Mama
Sarah's woman pleased
Lakisha was labor

-- Toph Church

Obama-mama -- woman votes while in labor
Obama before mama: Woman votes before giving birth
Obama's family celebrates with a Kenyan feast

The Sprawling Day

black to a nation whoops organization
discussions disbanding fabulously winning
campaign of the walls will convene

stage one timberwolves all center
part of the Wednesday world
these hushed words borrowed

from the theatre victory
America's joy
connected to who was black I the world around

-- Michael Schiavo

Obama Team Shifts To Transition Mode
U.S. Again Hailed as 'Country of Dreams'
Spurs' Parker: Zero to 55 in a Flash

Twilight Voters Edge

lines stretched across damp parking lots and down city blocks
rain gave way to blue voters converged on polling places
snapped a photo at first light an immortalize awakening

after a long and bitter struggle holding a decisive edge
economic crisis Iraq Afghanistan wars overhaul health care
        issues
if tighten control Congress may easier new administration deal
        crisis

in twilight of presidency at positive perception low
whether America will become more inward-looking and
        protectionist
no question anything but a vote to change focus people’s minds

-- Clark Allison

Farewell Bush: what the world expects from his successor
Obama and McCain await voters' decision
Southern California turns out to vote

Morning: Long Gap

My grandmother, me to talk about, to explain
for mild generally expected
rain, snow, territory

for me to talk, about to talk about
to explain for a democratically
difficult this morning

drone attacks precious
counterproductive difficult
this morning drone

-- James Belflower

Obama's Grandmother Dies of Cancer in Hawaii
Stop drone attacks, Zardari tells US
Voters culminate presidential campaign, swarm to polls

Epic, Undecided Tomorrow

Lightning would not have to win the 11.2 million votes
to go buy lottery tickets. Obama made last-minute stops
to strike three times. Experts say it's time for weeks.

After almost two wars, McCain declared "The Mac
is to get out the candidates through making seven stops
in the right thing." The gravest challenges of national polls.

McCain will make another run at flipping the lead of Indiana;
Obama has the gap in several. A close fight in history - you,
tomorrow, you can give this country the country.

-- Andrew Bailey

Again, Florida could be won by a handful of votes
First votes cast in US election
Obama, McCain Make Last Effort at Swaying Voters

Aim to Violate

we count plenty of mystery
at 7pm Eastern time we might trigger
autism or annual

bad weather, Palin weather, who
violated her husband and said autism could lead to
television viewing, while pundits and pollsters

have popcorn problems--
assuming you have a day job,
make time for election, sunshine vitamin.

-- Natalie Knight

Election Night (Popcorn Included)
Alaska Board Clears Palin in Trooper Case
Study links autism and wet weather

405 Crime Corp.

Anonymous pregnancy freeway hurtles West
As near to the intersection as motorists
Anonymous teachers upset that pediatricians published teen

As of Sunday, the Network 405 involved parents daily
Young sexual police diving, the beach slaying
The multiple three crime men study programming

risks is wounds;
content is sex;
crime is homeless.

5 found dead near the 405 in Long Beach
Study: Sex on TV linked to teen pregnancies
Video shows man playing 'chicken' with 50mph train

-- Will Scott

Plays Or Leans

it's a surprise or it's an act
or it's fate or coincidence or a buried victory
or tumbling into a deep hole or the economy of the 30s

or plunged into blasts of shivering ridicule
or popping wires from their communications points
or cougars' eyes glinting from lethargic trees

or there would be hazards or spectacles
or hazards but no spectacles or spectacles but no hazards
or there would be no obvious or meaningful incidents

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Cougars buried in early hole
High winds cut power to 6,500
This Mugabe says God is on Zimbabwe's side

Launches Russia Regions

launching pad tourist
launched democracy
launching launched supports right Russia’s Russian

President criticism Russia’s recognize Deputy regions
region without meetings members launched Baikonur
tourist Owen democracy

launching launched supports right Russia’s Russian
President criticism Russia’s recognize Deputy regions
region without meetings members launched Baikonur

Russia launches spacecraft with sixth space tourist
Supporting Russia's Neighbors
Russia insists breakaway regions represented at Georgia talks

-- Felicitas Macgilchrist

The Wrong Crisis

A new committee will not help you think.
To get Icelandic jellyfish, cut a hole in Iceland.
Are you saying you can negotiate the complex paths that wind

through woods of green tension, to bed in peaceable houses?
Yes, drunk again.
Save the biological problems for the biologists.

From the grades they've assigned to life, it had to fail.
And a microscope is too big to prevent regret.
Any guiding star has to send you too far to circle back.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Three U.S.-based scientists share Nobel chemistry prize
Google's drunk e-mailing protection is nice, but won't save you
Meltdown in Iceland

How Particles Realign

Screen the alcove condenses two from A of space.
Branch the space form two of A from points.
Space the province broke four with A in secret.

The collisions the communion against.
The scrutiny the correspondence with.
Cosmic these and nothing detecting engage streaks to from.

Darkened white and smudges enclosing secede glass to with.
The abstentions the cone of.
The yesteray the messages of.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Hackers post Palin's personal email on web
Frontiers of physics
Episcopalians vote to oust Pittsburgh bishop

It's All Happening

sputter worse summer comes to an end
with the cooling advance of autumn
ice nose-dived out of the division

summer shrunk to the smallest size on record
two sub-standard changes stuck in my head
I could not possibly lose another warming game

taste affects the workings of the world
seeing is not necessarily believing
every time trusted scientists are wrong

-- Rupert M Loydell

Bitter taste over China baby milk
Arctic ice melt not quite a record this summer
Seeing Is Not Necessarily Believing

"I don't believe what I just saw."

I thought there was no way the Mets could possibly sputter worse
I thought there was no way the Mets could possibly putter worse
I thought there was no way the Mets could possibly sputter curse

I thought there was no way the Mets could possibly sputter worse
I thought there was no way the Mets would visibly butter churn
I thought there was no way the Mets could possibly batter verse

I thought there was no way the Mets could possibly sputter worse
I thought there was no way the Mets should possibly shutter
        hearse
I thought there was no way the Mets could possibly spatter words

-- Rupert M Loydell

Seeing Is Not Necessarily Believing

Submerged City Cause

engine fault probably caused crash caught fire mid-air
no information to suggest crash cause terrorist attack
fourth city four months synchronized bombing attack

detonated within half hour crowded shopping thoroughfares
rescue crews fan into flooded neighborhoods
found in submerged vehicle close to the airport

dust never settle targeted hub extremists can
mysterious group local media claiming responsibility
appealed for calm fears that home-grown has taken root

-- Clark Allison

Russia air crash blamed on engine
Bombers spread death and terror in Delhi
Death toll from Hurricane Ike up to 8

On Seconds Ashore

bad weather led to aircraft hitting hills
seconds before impact attempted to fly out low-flying cloud
suffered multiple injuries totally inappropriate speed

stabbed a security guard police building
secretive trial criticized on Internet sites some blocked
started fire at gate attacked officials building

pulled from the water not suspicious
not equipped to fly in scrambled cloud
force helicopter brought paramedics ashore

-- Clark Allison

Fatal helicopter crash accidental
Death sentence in rampage sparks debate in China
No charges over woman's sea death

Breakaway To Turnaround

The extended wells of a ridiculous e-mail war
said that extraterrestrials were accelerating evacuations
from hatches in the ocean off Nova Scotia, while

in a spit of shell-blue sky, not a robin had evacuated.
The nation's cloudless spokeswoman probably stretched
to stop leaders from launching the forecast

that someone suggested their presence provoked;
making those umbrella remarks that help no one, operators
likening it to rain sparked from an offshore hurricane.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Putin Asserts Link Between U.S. Election and Georgia War
On Tour, these quirks keep the ball rolling
Firms hurry to remove offshore workers

Rival Handshake Freaks

Who can deny location?
I'm in no hurry to change
I'm absolutely fine

It's comforting being off the grid
I don't think I missed growing up
Power-sharing talks freak me out

Third parties are lining up to cut deals
People track and communicate with friends
They may be watching me

-- Rupert M Loydell

Mugabe rival 'barred from travel'
Cindy McCain is injured by a handshake
Yes, Fire Eagle's cool. It also freaks me out

Luck Is Subsequently

as smog questions innocent, through portraits crown thick
admiring and braced, getting and expected
innocent is a very

opening and described, embarrassing and added
cognizant is a conclusively
momentous defend a dramatically

if apology prolonged maligned, as rhymes mask auspicious
whether mask masks eighth, when missteps rush lucky
beginning and witnessed, giving and continued

-- Glenn R. Frantz

08.08.08 - today is the day to get hatched or matched in China
Anthrax investigation should be investigated, congressmen say
Masks May Be Part of Wardrobes at Opening Ceremony

Accident Found Space

tunnel closed more than an hour all lanes police said
motorcycle caught fire in accident with car
not an excess of any one but the combination

neither confirm nor deny phony prescriptions or illegal means
masseuse found actor’s lifeless body in Manhattan apartment
other drugs anti-anxiety and sleeping pills legally prescribed

got carried away but this is messy
tosses guys aside leaving hurt and destruction behind
been making frantic phone calls needs space to work things out

-- Clark Allison

Geary tunnel reopens after motorcycle accident
Investigation Into Heath Ledger's Death Closed
Sienna Miller's fling is a disaster

The Lakebed Sound

Fish created a secret evolutionary technology for singing.
The singing spread in a growling bass hum, to videos
and bookings on multimillion-dollar nature shows.

Due to flooding, city officials must issue
confidential payroll documents for water vertebrates.
Nemo is accused of suggesting a "bail out".

For their next surprise, the fish decide to launch
"The Bass Univeristy for Geosciences":
Landing with a grunt in the disgruntled future.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

'Maniacal' computer engineer takes city network hostage
Revealing the secrets of the red planet
Spread the word: Fish talk

For Whose Benefit

a sense of euphoria and hope in a nation
a nation eager to shed the legacy
Paradise, nirvana, must be something very close

the word "Free" in capital letters
a few speeches and some folk songs.
conflict and generalized despair.

left-wing insurgency has been fatally weakened
fatally weakened after it was duped
shed the legacy of more

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Former hostage gets to hug her children after six years
'Nirvana' in Bogota for freed hostage
France awaits return of its cause célèbre

Species Of Wondering

Published on a fever shore
the stock strand mammals
milk another sonic lung.

These are the suffering hours,
the damage of a dying cough
crack the security of doctors.

The skin of summer pulses,
the radiation whales of old
may winter another sun.

-- Rebecca Eddy

Winehouse Hospitalized: Emphysema or 'Crack Lung'?
Time in the Sun: How Much Is Needed for Vitamin D?
Supreme Court to consider sonar versus whales

Shed Damaged Conventions

months of creative rehearsals develop through improvisation
walked into view edge of stage in bluish lighting
control normal traffic damaged pulled out of service

investigating human or mechanical error slammed back
        two-car
must allowed monitor runoff avoid criminal regime steal
shed blood cede give up country presidential runoff

16 injured both vehicles expect to release more information
I never conventions routines cast idea carnivalesque pageants
repeats at end rejected producer embittered demeaning
        ensemble

-- Clark Allison

Mugabe warns he will not cede power in Zimbabwe
Muni officials search for cause of train crash
A sprightly elegy

Ancient People Helped

the plant fact the sapling of of part
in planted attention from the platform and
the sculptured pot the Methuselah of of center

the in seed long-extinct hurt
rapt shows which in simplest
on tumble fruit as the palaces as

the in nudity month-long decades
figures dates that from naked
the soften leap the aim of of sweetness

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Botanists making a date with history
Work on Texas GOP's platform stirs passions
Friday 13th for Brian Cowen

Outside The Test

We didn't think life would survive the elements.
It couldn't do it without the havoc of competition.
But none of it is any good if you don't have photosynthesis.

Can the Phoenix really be said to survive?
The weary earth itself has outlasted it.
We didn't think, but we didn't think we couldn't think.

I'm largely grateful for these sarcastic words.
I'm not looking for the Seven Rules of Knowledge,
I'm just processing a sample without the key.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Clinton Rally Organizers: We'll Back Obama
NASA: Robotic arm key to finding life on Mars
Windermere teen has crack at national spelling-bee crown

Enough Remake Season

lake that formed when
quake-triggered land slide dammed a river
seduced by wealth and perks, never really comes together

ability to work with actors, not an auteur director
never left his personal stamp on a film
remake romantic comedy beautiful costumes

forced to endure daily rains beneath tattered thatch huts
drinking whatever water they can find
in low-lying delta as the monsoon season nears

-- Clark Allison

Sydney Pollack's films exhibit a versatile, collaborative hand
Aftershocks in China Topple More Than 420,000 Houses
Conditions Ripe for Disease in Myanmar Delta

Critical: Attracting Options

Beneath the low hum
of a graying sky, the fading
aura dissembles.

We were frankly warned
of this unexplained trend,
what it might mean.

In Tao, there is no
unsolicited urgency, only
the lone, myriad way.

-- Don Wentworth

Young Pennsylvania voters drawn to Obama
Iraqi lawmaker to U.S.: Back off
For Yahoo Clock Ticks Down to Microsoft Deadline

Like New Yesterday

related was secretly owned celebrated
discarded was further established provided
completely as completely brought

washed broke and taped
unprepared knows and talented
already of already expanded

tossed sent and only
cited blew and now
finally for finally imagine

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Hurricane Katrina Victim Wins $97 Million Lottery
A Decade of Sins Deserves a Year Out
N. Korea gives U.S. nuclear papers

breastfed candidates extend

breastfed
and babies -
evidencings were related.

knock-outhern,
states the
United Clinton Demographic.

both,
and game
leeway... and failed.

-- Andrew Bailey

Clinton, Obama clash before Tuesday duel
No More 'Help' For Rangers
Breastfeeding 'helps to boost IQ'

Already Revealed To

The behemoth of conjecture, long happily willing to
tackle the role of the spectrum of agency to emergency,
threatened to end the speculation

as his foot endured the nerve-racking response to
a drumbeat dropped in mid-march to mock
the bowing of music to systemic graces repeated

to engage, to a fault, the terse sealed process
that surrounds the hearsay that no news is new news to
the unrest cacophony is always welcome to.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

After First N.F.L. Pick, Day of Tantalizing Choices
Wireless Auction Probe Clears Companies
China to meet envoy of Dalai Lama

From Womb Complications

Screwing up another panel on hospital-grade drugs,
my eyes double-vision. A coliseum. A state.
“This is good,” I cue the picture of the implantation.

I cue the picture of the artificially fertilized eggs.
“This is the baby now, 10 years after,” I cue shot
of child at the compound. “She’s loving it.”

My eyesight blossoms. Blurry. 10 years
I’ve been suffering. With experts and crowds
of people. The agency is a plot. A bog.

-- Heather Cousins

Mothers from polygamous sect separated from children
Lasik Patients Describe Complications at FDA Hearing
'Baby Mama': Womb Service