Iraq City Scene

An Interior Ministry official was dealing with his house,
A box of candy, a suicide bomber, insurgents
A sheikh (recently freed) and four others wounded.

The turbines stopped, plunging the City into darkness.
Amid restrictions and rocket fire, the only power:
cars driving along the darkened streets.

No one will be watching television late into the night
To see if there are any upsets. Political rallies are not allowed;
The most famous candidate has not been seen in public.

-- Carolyn Zukowski

Candy box bomber kills 6 in Iraq
Gaza City plunged into darkness
Cuba poll sets scene for Fidel's fate

Zero Depicted Recovery

large scale internal fraud trader loss clouded visit
contrasted depicted in Wall Street would have been
        unthinkable
create energy from waste opponents targets
        incineration

battling drug problems reached heights new publicity
entered facility by mutual agreement full receive
        support
see her take back potential fulfil full health record
        label

talented important artist generation huge strides to
        recovery
energy from waste and zero landfill meeting targets
beyond specific case perhaps problem capitalism
        financial morality

-- Clark Allison

Waste burning targets 'too high'
Amy Winehouse enters rehab
Furious Sarkozy was kept in dark over €5bn fraud

Expensive Mad Order

To impress the waitress at Cassandra's Restaurant
(where desperate protesters are eventually fed),
a crazy man is scoring a point about the difference between

agonizingly dwindling currency transparency
and foundering under the grander divergent turbulence
of a one-money slum government.

The smugly closed stores pull in aspirational civilians,
who looted them to steal some trash before it's chopped up.
He merely borrows the trash, in the trappings of a moral.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

In a tale of desperation, Allen and his cast are in control
Khouri carried 'Money' through some tough times
Protesters Clash With Police in Kenya and Loot Train

Diversify Downloaded Direction

border challenge talks diversify export basket bridge
        rising deficit
internet now allows artists produce distribute their
        own music
bolster exports should needed greater access market
        goods

private equity likened to plantation chief all about
        money
revive ailing business cutbacks marketing big
        administration closure
more time serving artists less whizzy parties and
        traveling

as someone who decries politics personal destruction
        should’ve denounced on spot
once headed in the direction of junkie and pothead
last conventional insiders estimate revealed sum paid
        band downloaded

-- Clark Allison

India seeks to boost China trade
Tension builds among artists as EMI prepares to cut jobs
Drugs, race raised in Clinton-Obama fight

Faking Surprise Video

Britney led with 24 points and 8 rebounds
scored 34 points and grabbed 9 rebounds
had 15 points and 10 rebounds

Images released were made from pictures
semi-nude pictures of the shot singer
4 of 14 in a fit of hysterics from the field

the audio was fabricated the voice
was recorded after refusing
"You will explode after a few minutes."

-- Rupert M Loydell

Bobcats Surprise the Celtics
Spears family says Dr. Phil betrayed their trust
Iran Accuses U.S. of Faking Persian Gulf Video

Veteran Consumer Rainbows

First came the fresh winds rising fast
and blowing away voters. By nightfall,
the Supersize-Me Ice Queen melted.

In a race that turns out to be all about climate,
just about every forecaster was wrong -
even after downloads the weather changed.

Enhanced plasma display panel technologies
challenge conventional wisdom and dead certainties:
the season of rebirth in the form of digital files.

-- Rupert M Loydell

The Voters' Revenge
Supersize-Me TVs
Radiohead Finds Sales, Even After Downloads

Oil Of Despite

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--Glenn R. Frantz

White House dismisses fears of a US recession
PATH Riders May Get Slight Break on Fare Rise
Kenya president rules out talks with rival until calm prevails

Our Astronomical Storytelling

The sun in humpback spirals from equinox to solstice
rises smooth as a tinted umbrella,
sets in lush tropic wrinkles with violet Sanskrit scribbles.

Lurking night can see the sun, and shadows him.
This meandering light behind the film above our frame
on the horizon, burns a path with growing degrees of return.

But for now there will be clear sky for the rainmaker,
palpably overcast for would-be viewers on a Pisgah point.
The murky winter thickens.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Japan postpones humpback whale hunt
Sun marks winter solstice on Saturday
Coppola's "Youth" not worth the wait

Alleged Religious Police

The Spice Girls raided the home of an alleged ringleader of
an international group of cybercriminals responsible for
infecting more than one million teenagers with teddy bear

hatred. Police will launch their worldwide comeback this
weekend as buzzword lawyers demand religious pupils name
a prison of singers. Initially, the raid helped Sudanese

'girl power', but police arrested 750,000 computers. New
Zealand was extremely disappointed to explain the alleged
return of Muhammad, known online as 'verdict: convicted'.

-- Kevin Doran

Spice Girls to launch world comeback tour
Police Break Up International Botnet
Teacher guilty of insulting Islam

The Time Taken

Signals for converting remembered,
history after defining thinned,
space of home pulses the attempt

until delayed connected example
already with abandoned Atlantis,
copper of light evening the harbor.

Cores creating and human,
world canceling and massive,
blue of pearl chips the disappear.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Pearl Harbor lives in the hearts of its vets
Shuttle Mission Is Delayed by Problems With Fuel Sensors
IBM aims to wire chips with light pulses

Flares Investigation Scene

flying course veered not authorized media speak
visited crash site Turkish prosecutor leading
        investigation
crashed into mountain killing passengers and crew

several hostages let a woman with an infant go
standoff complaint wife severe drug alcohol abuse
turned out road flares strapped to his chest

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-- Clark Allison

Hostage-taker invades Clinton campaign office
U.S. experts join crash inquiry
Fatal ambulance crash highlights dangers

Attempting to Defy

A convocation of blind sparrows
crouch in the main gallery like giant
Epstein sculptures, reminding you

how boring England is by comparison.
Several rooms far above, some designed
by artists: light, materials, the odour of youth.

This is not one of the best places to take
children, but there is nobody to tell us to
get lost except us, and we don’t count.

-- Tom Craze

Forget the bejewelled moppets of the Premier League
Let the Children Feel the Force
Winehouse sees husband denied bail

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-- Toph Church

Wildfire destroys homes in Calif.'s ritzy Malibu
Bush Ally Defeated in Australia
Antarctic Cruise Ship Picks Up 154 Shipwreck Survivors

Nearby Like Distance

I know I've been called when I'm coming for the
liquid chords of the loon to get up early to voters
working the coalition of birds dismissed for the mountains

between hunting jackets for rationalists
and finding them interests them
within the allegory drifts out of novels into the campaign

raining word as a trapped society from some black film
and I know when I'm struggling and when I gamble one day
after a long time is my version of what might be coming back

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Don't Get Bogged Down in 'The Mist'
Shoppers rush to stores eager to wheel, deal
Howard: I can still win it

Sound Finesse Transition

returns home on the heels of the year’s first snowfall
delivering all the weight and drama you’d expect
a different approach takes in a more radio-friendly
        direction

exorbitant prices mediocrity and brazen mimicry of
        the worst Pop styles
an ungainly animal full of power and drive a little
        finesse
strong points, dreamy greens and wistful faces

promised fresh approach to governing well steeped
        transition
that change deliver from first goal so critical
played towards that realm carve out a sound

-- Clark Allison

A change of season
Estranged in a Strange Land
Collins adds 10 to transition team