An Impressive Denouement

It's the great cosmic joke:
the dramatic revelation our present day strategy
has produced no bold progress.

We've been living in the clouds,
so afraid of stillness, of being disconnected,
that what we once thought were bullet-proof blessings

were only the narcotic of ingenious technology.
And, nobody knew how dangerous it was.
Blindsided and sunk, we wait in line for naught.

-- Scott H. Stoller

The 36 Hours That Shook Washington
No Sex Please, We’re Middle Class
Are Cells the New Cigarettes?

Morning in Manhattan

She strolled in uninvited in her prim white blouse
        and smudged black eyeliner,
on the verge of tears, machine guns protruding,
        chewing over the cultural importance of baseball.
"It can get a little boring," she said softly.

The church is closed today, can't ask it's staff
        to break away
from a major cocaine bender at The Four Seasons Hotel
        (soon to be reprised on the Upper West Side)
and work with the blizzard of cross-dressing drunks

who are hyperventilating and freaking out,
but what in the world are we supposed to do?
The good news is the Grammys must be canceled.

-- Scott H. Stoller

His Cross to Bear: Heartthrob Vampire
Has Lady Gaga gotten your attention yet?
Secret of AA: After 75 Years, We Don’t Know How It Works

coke is law

in a unilateral effort to boost revenue
congress has approved a vast and lucrative
conspiracy to flood manhattan with cocaine

the programme is set to top two billion dollars
and grow 408 percent in a five year strategic plan
new findings boost arguments that drug dealers

are worth more than the president and firearms
and cash are regularly sent to the fiercely
loyal house of representatives on thursday

-- Richard Mason

Jamaican gang leader faces drug, gun charges in NY
Whalewatching worth billions and booming: study
Iran faces fresh US sanctions

The Democratic Age

We just said that only genetic bubbles matter.
Don't implore the power. Grip the personalised distrust.
The over-hyped fighting of dream troops,

clashing with their pick of absent opponents.
Any student has the right to ask for and receive
a fresh Bavarian cucumber.

But was it meant to get first-graders
calling for new elections?
So says a head of losers.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Swipe at 'genome hype', 10 years on
Is Germany's Government Headed for a Breakdown?
P'town schools to distribute condoms

nationwide beach party

shortly       before     1.41 p.m.       many
were           still         unaffected           by
schoolchildren     into       post     offices

rattling       bookshelves     instead       of
welcoming     the     deadliest     summer
dancing         around           a         bonfire

workers           studied           money-losing
a   Spanish   chinchilla   tried   to protest
on       the       Ontario-Quebec       border

-- Richard Mason

12 killed as train hits beachgoers in Spain
Earthquake rattles Ontario-Quebec border and GTA
French strike over plans to raise retirement age

Inventing Her Reality

The perfect cycle now concludes,
growing ever more difficult
and largely unattractive.

New moral duties weigh heavily.
The floor under the stage might not hold.
To cut against the grain of the times

will require a feat of delicate engineering.
The notion of a fiery collapse
has become a most distinct possibility.

-- Scott H. Stoller

Secondhand Smoke Linked to Mental Distress
In Defense of the Imperfect Mother
For New ‘Ring’ Set, Met Has to Buy Steel Supports

The Increasingly Common

Decades have come to nothing,
have refused to budge,
to have an impact,

and one can't help but feel
a creeping sense
of fatal inadequacy.

This is big news.
What's out there left to find?
Show me.

-- Scott H.Stoller

Miley Cyrus Defends Simulating Lesbian Kiss
Novel Drug Combats Advanced Melanoma
Spelling their way to success

Stay, Rise, Run

quick pitched will piper reeling post which between
ominous clad has nectar gathering worry when under
calm breach had drought enhancing specter when in

heavily for tent a loud quick pitched will piper
undoubtedly of bid a sharp ominous clad has nectar
outside by taste a quick calm breach had drought

reeling post which between heavily for tent a loud
gathering worry when under undoubtedly of bid a sharp
enhancing specter when in outside by taste a quick

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Taliban targets Afghanistan peace jirga
BP disaster raises oil industry's insurance costs
For many, Griffey is baseball in Northwest

Stay, Rise, Run

quick pitched will piper reeling post which between
ominous clad has nectar gathering worry when under
calm breach had drought enhancing specter when in

heavily for tent a loud quick pitched will piper
undoubtedly of bid a sharp ominous clad has nectar
outside by taste a quick calm breach had drought

reeling post which between heavily for tent a loud
gathering worry when under undoubtedly of bid a sharp
enhancing specter when in outside by taste a quick

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Taliban targets Afghanistan peace jirga
BP disaster raises oil industry's insurance costs
For many, Griffey is baseball in Northwest

An Artificial Fortress

As the walls came down, with history revealed,
what was this writer's groundbreaking achievement,
creating synthetic art?

His tortured relationship with sobriety,
loaded guns in strategic locations,
ready to provide a quick resolution?

A wide range of compounds,
transforming the pain,
as he lay tenaciously dying?

-- Scott H. Stoller

An uneasy ride with Dennis Hopper
Johnson & Johnson Criticized Over Drug Recall
Scientists Control Cell With Synthetic Genome

Unleashing President Stronghold

forces broke, said
the first country offered just a spill
gushed months, grip, a day rig toddler

become
miles off, which was an industry disaster
spewed and exploded, surpassing not the baron
        but visited his father

and the estimated
history, now advocates away, that example of global use
about as much, since the alleged coast siege,
        the now into the vice between

-- Kale Humphrey

BP: 48 hours before clear if mud stops oil leak
Jamaica drug gangs 'call the shots'
Outrage erupts as 2-year-old lights up

Delicate Killing Advocated

Their anger grew.
It's difficult to derail a southern train.
You can force it off the tracks

in a landslide of wreckage and oil
but it's coming right back. It's hard to explain.
When you cannot believe the blow ups,

when you won't stop hiding the dead,
when sermons ooze twisted philosophy,
southern trains are difficult to derail. It's hard to explain.

-- Scott H. Stoller

EPA chief to return to Gulf Coast to monitor spill
Train hits landslide, derails in China, killing 19
Yemeni cleric advocates killing US civilians

Afternoon Abstinence Factors

Indiscreet
horses cheat
on their partners

Hustler
photos are
briefly cleavage-free

Harvard's
getting flak
for rethinking virginity

-- Scott H. Stoller

The Science of a Happy Marriage
Marijuana plantations feeding Europe's habit
Why Is a Former Sex Blogger "Rethinking Virginity"?

Scheduled Stress Symptoms

A fatal disease is spreading across subtropical twilight skies.
The continued expansion of virulent stars
is more deadly than otherwise believed.

Infected physicians successfully killed
a stressed out but healthy young porpoise.
A number of dogs are now ill. The cats cannot be comforted.

The experts expressed some alarm---
Strange talking girls can be ultimately prevented
but that is not what we are seeing.

-- Scott H. Stoller

Mystery Disease Linked to Missing Israeli Scientist
Last chance to see Atlantis in night sky
Stressed? Calling Mom helps, study says

Flash Flood Ritual

burning in a castle
with a thatching of arrows skewered, recreational archers
shouting liquor of scorched pine

bottles in mud
shattered on smooth stumps
a ram stumbled

near footpaths
hands scale trees
repeated horses jumped the gate

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Hockey joy turns to violence in wake of Canadiens' victory
All Crowe and arrows
Elena Kagan follows Supreme Court rulebook: be bland