Tuesday, March 10, 2009

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

Monday, March 02, 2009

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

Sunday, March 01, 2009

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

Thursday, February 26, 2009

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

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

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

Monday, February 09, 2009

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?

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

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.

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

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

Friday, January 23, 2009

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

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

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

Monday, January 19, 2009

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?

Monday, January 12, 2009

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

Thursday, January 01, 2009

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