Ministers of Controversy

The implicit promise of changing a story
is to make people notice how dumb it is.
But the group has no inclination to shed its mind.

Like the wallflower dragon whose bullying lawyer
leaked a hot publicity fondue,
winning a palace despite being downgraded

from a pricey crystal nugget to a set of chocolate shoes.
That's one of the perks of ridiculousness.
Everything changes, but nothing draws attention.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Farewell fondue sets: EU tighten sanctions on brutal Syrian 
     regime with shopping and travelling ban on Assad's wife 
     (but there's nothing to stop her from returning to UK)
Etch A Sketch flap cheers Bryan firm
Appealing an MPAA Rating Is Pointless (But Studios Should 
     Do It Anyway)

Always Bill Down

An unlucky defender
rushes emotional aid
attacks sexual frequency

Amorphous dozens
hack left field
heretical members

Franchise love play
pullout group swipe
adult life lasts forever

-- Jeff Nichols

Anonymous claims to bring down Vatican website
Bill  Maher to liberals: Accept Limbaugh's apology and move on!
Manning says "I'll always be a Colt" amid emotional release

Ability of Counterparts

They chase jumping mammals they were paid to dig with.
Serrated insects were tired.  Out after tough sleep,
unearthed a switch that triggered swaps.  Bodies with edges

feathered and springy.  Bonds said to reveal the middle
questions for their ancestors.  They chase jumping mammals.
They were paid to dig with serrated insects; were tired out

after tough sleep.  Unearthed a switch that, triggered,
swaps bodies with edges.  Feathered and springy bonds,
said to reveal the middle.  Questions for their ancestors.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Greece Default SWAPS Don't Have to Pay: ISDA
Prehistoric fleas were bigger and meaner, but couldn't leap
Adults in Their 80s Report Sleeping Better, Says Study

Highest British Trial

His London, as left to the judge, is a compound without peace
Drowning the follow-up fruit of the defense
His wife established in 95% of British crimes, over the years

Norwich women found pleading parole to Nairobi citrus men
As women of Uganda eat U.N.-backed oranges from Somalia
Unusual, though observational, and a Federal issue in London

Gabe, at highest risk, said the judge issued life without acquittal
To men without oranges, due process involving impressive
      pleading
And an ambitious jury of colleagues

-- gabrielle brabazon

Ala. judge acquits man accused of drowning newlywed wife
An Orange a Day Keeps Stroke Away
Somalis Unconvinced by London Conference

Sound of Paying

Sparked the hand a wireless wave, spring-driven
Sparked streaming, in the automated offspring
Sparked Mademoiselle, the miss sound of the gong

Sparked Balance, sparked a complex system of
Honorific sushi traffic jam, sparked tears of parting
Sparked hunger in the morning, four brass kiss

Pictures, poems banished from mechanical forms, mapped
Pockets sparked bank account rent solidarity fast
Sparked the hand a wireless wave, spring-driven

-- Andrew K. Peterson

Pa. museum automaton has link to Scorsese's 'Hugo'
'Mademoiselle' Exits Official France
Tibetan New Year begins on a 'somber' note

Blue Smoke Standing

like a waiter’s nightmare at a luau
like plump hands on the honeymoon table
folding up three seconds in eternity

like mixing then folding of cut
salt raised from the lake, leaving
like thin palm rounds scarcer than hunger

like ordering rounds of city in a half-purse moon
like the rolling occasion of unscheduled leaving
like blue smoke standing

-- Andrew K. Peterson

How Waiters Read Your Table
Kidnapping Survivor Elizabeth Smart gets Married in Hawaii
Tibetans' (Forbidden) Special Treat

Sinking Says Killing

Officials said faulty brakes were suspected
Of pharmacists and witnesses said the
Medicines for people aboard the

Implantation cannot force pharmacies
To a fertilized egg, killing. Officials
Said the implantation of a fertilized

Egg, operator of drugs. The state's
True goal was to dispense such medicine.
A statement by their probe into the implantation.

-- jGnoetry and edde addad

Italian Investigators Expand Cruise-Ship Sinking Probe
Argentine commuter train crashes, killing 49 people
Judge says Wash. can't make pharmacies sell Plan B

49,000 fatal photos

This struggling chassis is lightweight
than its University consumers twice.
Top-to-bottom Marijuana marijuana.

Flash-memory: Experts were over Canadian
Beyoncé. Yes, but of what? Digital motor face
is by hot bod battery revamp.

blood collision will further alcohol distribution
opportunity. Ivy is hoping driving strutting next
to Blue ultra-thin traditional exit drugs.

-- Paul Christian

Beyoncé and Jay-Z Share First Photos of Baby Blue Ivy!
Apple to disrupt notebook space with MacBook Pros
Don't smoke pot, drive -- you're twice as likely to crash

Every Number Positive

in ever cheerfully enticements seasons current slow
under the years episodes intuitive
to ever now perceptions math fringed longer

papers talented of presence and rhythmic
at the pencils tremors tiny
by the canteen belt telltale

conveyer successful by couple and one
things enjoyable in masquerade or warped
to ever equally palm hand acceptable fictitious

--  Glenn R. Frantz

Hugh Laurie on the last episodes of 'House': interview
Tai Chi May Help Parkinson's Patients Regain Balance
Russian city bans spreading of 'homosexual propaganda'

Surrealist Land Grab

On Pennsylvania Avenue, a brittle
Richard Nixon enters a hallway filled
with a long series of identical doors

leading to an empty room. On Wall Street,
a giant yellow sunflower illuminates
two entranced young women capping

a plastic Immaculate Conception. While
on Main Street, 99 percent of Americans
living at home are sleeping on taboo ground.

-- Angela Genusa

Occupy Has Captured Nation's Attention, If Not Its Cities
February 2012 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
Dorothea Tanning, Surrealist Painter and Poet, Dies at 101

a cappella snow

the most petrifying electric lip-sync meltdown
a joyride to the house of his drug dealer leni riefenstahl
a cloudburst that always knocks the wind out of me

an experimental teenage bloodhound psychopath
seizing the murky underbelly of small town america
a vacant government building not far from the train station

visit the ghostly unused offices better even than morphine
large marble letters like white noise that canceled the pain
a west point grad who suffered extensive burns gas-huffing

-- Alana Madison

David Lynch's musical magic
A Virtual-Reality Game To Distract Burn Victims From Pain
As Neo-Fascists Claim Ezra Pound, His Family Says, 'Hands Off'

Big Fucking Apple

a banal 1970s pop tune out of dust cloud blotting
then you read a meme about stepping into the surf of
more hookers, less yoga studios like cool water dropping

allow us to present everything on the other side
he’d heard it on the radio drowns the snarl of traffic
you don’t belong to the evening sky parching

a whiff of intimidation about it spread right through
yellow fields of mustard to flow elegant brief and knowing
unfettered stench of dust and smoke on 9/11 hey, fuck you!

-- Alana Madison

Shit Native New Yorkers Say
Jaipur losing its soul?
Poet is inspired when startled

Inspired by Trash

Billy Collins read a banal poem about
Bollywood, hookers, and yoga studios

the really rude shit new yorkers say
in the room leaves you shaking your head

but a whiff of mustard fills your nostrils
and the shitty poetry flows unfettered

-- Angela Genusa

Shit Native New Yorkers Say
Jaipur losing its soul?
Poet is inspired when startled

Really Shitty Poetry

how difficult it is to write something elegant and brief
the whiff of a Billy Collins poem fills your nostrils
the stench you struggled for hours to get out of your head

shit leaves you shaking your head in disbelief
drowns even the clamor of your own thoughts
a tableau of trash lying about in jute bags

and an orange evening sky in a Collins poem
makes up the backdrop of many Bollywood romantic moments
hey, fuck Collins, and fuck you! how's your mother?

-- Angela Genusa

Shit Native New Yorkers Say
Jaipur losing its soul?
Poet is inspired when startled

Modern Poetry Convulsions

Is poetry living or dead? A frantic friend told
a 911 emergency operator that it had "smoked
something" and was suffering from "convulsions."

Said friend then contradicted himself and told said
911 operator that poetry was found in the Hollywood
Hills—"just a severed head." A survey, however,

showed that poetry is now made in China "by crude,
cynical squirrels and other wildlife" and "lives unnoticed
at the edge of society." Laureates, have a seizure now.

-- Angela Genusa

The dogs on the trail of the severed head
Battle of words over the future of poetry
Demi Moore 'Smoked Something' Before Being Hospitalised