Sunday, May 05, 2013

Thin Robotic Memory


some of the most brutal reviews in recent memory
swarms of robotic flies to pollinate crops
extremely thin sheets of material

folds them to make components
had to come up with a new form of manufacturing
ornithopters meaning their wings flap

surfaces paper thin and flexible
carrying other functions able to change colour
produce a very efficient photovoltaic device

-- Clark Allison

Robodiptera
Graphene paint could power homes of the future
Long live Viva Forever! and the tradition of musical flops

Thursday, April 25, 2013

A Walks Plateau


the pace mall inside tomato of
the wheeze yankee to much about
sighs of to furthest gardens dip the

hold among of such ladybugs leaves the
what their you may claims one also is
the country patient without king like

face in on nicknamed air quarter the
where their you will contrast thing barely is
the grandfather these of these of

-- Glenn R. Frantz

72000 Ladybugs Freed in Mall of America
The Tomato King goes to war for a casino
Avoiding triple-dip will be a huge relief to George Osborne

Friday, April 05, 2013

Makeshift Rhetoric Mix


two schools of thought about rhetoric emanating shoring power
          base
no worse than ritualistic promises testing leader resolve
formally repudiated armistice cut hotline latest round of sanctions

building under construction collapsed illegal and shoddy
          all-too-common
often live in crude shacks at sites demolish it and they build
makeshift settlements enough time passes impossible to demolish

mystery wrapped in an enigma mix of incomprehension ridicule
          and fear
might be on the brink of tipping peninsula catastrophic
shaking their heads in bemusement lurid exhortations to his troops

-- Clark Allison

Is North Korea really looking to start a war?
Mumbai Building Collapse Kills at Least 41
Mystery wrapped in an enigma: known unknowns of Kim Jong-un

Thursday, April 04, 2013

Traffic and Paint


The narrow traffic between sidewalks and street curbs;
the immense super-traffic spread over Pangaea;
traffic pouring like urban lava through Broadway palisades:

Each tour a memoir in shallow kilometers
and areas of sudden technique.  The narrow paint between
sidewalks and street curbs; the immense super-paint

spread over Pangaea; paint pouring like urban lava
through Broadway palisades:  Each tour a memoir
in shallow kilometers and areas of sudden technique.

-- 
Glenn R. Frantz

New York Lays Cable With Surgical Precision
Hillary Clinton book on State Dept. tenure out next year
Scientists Connect a Mass Extinction to a Major Lava Flow

Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Decelerating Cases Suspending


dozens of militants involved in attacking power grid station
attacked with rockets and mortars suspending power supply
entered grid station early morning setting everything ablaze

not the view of malevolent outsiders do so smoothly or abruptly
fallen into middle income trap urbanisation at a decelerating rate
incremental capital output ratio highest since 1992

on guard for bombs at cash points blew a hole steal money scam
beware of wires and cables leading cases of explosions risen
the forecourt moments before showering floor ripped apart

-- Clark Allison

Militants destroy Pakistan power grid
Why China’s economy might topple
CCTV: thieves used a bomb to blast cash dispenser open

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Same Delicate Spots


Ornate insects, the counters of Mexico,
recite their sequence as a measure of their energy.
But it's unlikely that wildlife will be called on

by President Hamilton, to help slice the raw pie of labor.
Is it "monarch butterflies" or "monarchs butterfly"?
Raising the migration beacon with a dedicated twinge

of matched reflecting wings.
Deploying a generation with localities for bodies,
to jump over tomorrow and stand in next year.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Wholesale Prices in U.S. Rose in February on Fuel Costs
Loudoun Wildlife Looks To Boost Monarch Numbers
Happy Pi Day

Sunday, March 03, 2013

Ambitious Final Survey


More than four out of 10 local authorities
have decided to visit Mars
despite pressure from central government to freeze

The first humans to pickle Eric
could be a married couple:
a multi-millionaire financier and a former rocket scientist

A dying woman will ask other wealthy individuals
to contribute to the final cost
of building and launching the Red Planet

-- Rupert M Loydell

Fancy a trip to Mars dear?
Town halls defy Pickles over council tax
Woman's Diamond Ring Stolen As She Lay Dying

Friday, March 01, 2013

Blessing Shares Disclosed


The Lord seemed to be sleeping
He pleaded with the European Commision
for more time to carry out a forced disposal

further undermining hopes that
the waters were agitated and the winds
were blowing against the likes of Samsung

The Vatican is famously secretive about its gadgets
A succession of scandals had helped push
the faithful for the last time

-- Rupert M Loydell

Discord Remains at Vatican as Pope Benedict Departs
Discord Remains at Vatican as Pope Benedict Departs
Apple promises more innovation 

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Let's Dangerous Wristwatch


the research lasted, wearable fins of once
the frontier published, oceanic bond of relatively
to to when of understand eyeglasses? feed the

considered city they're of because
to to when through order directions? save the
to to what about study cold? believe the

the fins delivered, several cold during up
tagged jaws it's from because
the messages named, shaky order to finally

-- Glenn R. Frantz

PS4: 10 things you need to know about Sony's new console
Endangered Whitetip Sharks: They're Actually Homebodies
Wearing the future

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Expect Catastrophic Blunders


in the bathroom,
          a series of blunders
                    become a nightmare.

                    significant delays,
          unstable disruptions--
the edge of stability.

calm and composed,
          a premeditated event--
                    contemplating another universe.

--Chris Cannella

Oscar Pistorius case police admit investigative blunders
A Catastrophic 'Bubble' Could End Universe
Warning: Expect air travel delays if budget cuts hit

Monday, February 18, 2013

Murder for Barriers


The model girlfriend
Support
Tougher rhetoric on immigration

But hostile
Trade barriers dismantle
Home

A performance of the elected
Blood in exchange for country
Support Venezuelans

-- Danielle Allen

Cameron urges India to remove barriers
Hugo Chavez returns to Venezuela after Cuba cancer care
Oscar Pistorius murder charge: 'steroids found at athlete’s home’

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Beyonce the Neurobiologist


The scientists fall over ill adult brains
Ivy infected the Middle East
The rodents daughter detect relative pregnancy

Birth and respiratory
Family are relative
Telepathy is invisible

A star simply contracted in Pakistan
Manchester to detect infrared precaution
Her daughter the coronavirus

-- Aisha Nozari

Coronavirus spreads to third family member
Beyonce Opens Up About Baby Plans
Have scientists discovered the 'sixth sense'?

Dappy Resignation Effort


A major effort is under way to replace Former N-Dubz rapper,
      Dappy
It could have been the relief of the century.
But Pope Benedict is to replace the music star.

Dappy broke thousands of windows to announce his resignation
He is said to have been a risk as his tweets are typed up by an aide
The pope announced it in person in more than 4,000 buildings

24,000 workers shouted "yes" at Guildford Crown Court
Forty of those injured remained for a fight in the Chelyabinsk region
Dappy escaped keen to avoid the flying debris by his successor.

-- Sadie West

Meteor: Rescue Teams Rally To Recovery Effort
Dappy Sheds a Tear as He Avoids Jail Sentence
First tweeting pope remains silent over resignation

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Tax of Armageddon


Bruce said earlier his girlfriend died of a 10p tax band
Mr Miliband was apparently unimpressed
Hard-working families struggled to work up enthusiasm

Oscar killed a police spokeswoman
Said earlier it’s like a boring interview
Listless plastic guns and white vests

Denise Willis’s planet-saving exploits
Surprised a squeezed middle earth
Willis has apologised and has so far received terrible reviews

-- Vinny McHugh

Oscar Pistorius charged with murder after girlfriend shot dead
Miliband backs mansion tax and 10p rate
Bruce Willis says sorry for 'boring' interview

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Committee On Inventories


The Chief Harbinger sailed to the tip of the economy
and received a stocking from the stockpiles.
Three economists had to blink, to earn this mitzvah.

We emceed a softening of the world,
by focusing on the warp at the margin.
We will not be swamped by a wave of novelty.

Every rejected e-mail is spending years in limbo.
You'll be impressed.
Every unsolicited insight will glow with authority.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Chuck Hagel's Winding (Pentagonal?) Path to the Pentagon
Opposition seeks talks on Egypt's violence
R-Word For U.S. Economy in 2013 is Rebound Not Recession

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

It Could Have All Been So Different


It could have been all so different:
a new colour on women's radar,
a map of areas on alert.

We both serve the same country,
beautifully tailored but remarkably subdued,
one that is still in need of repair.

We serve alongside a sea of dark suits
who govern in good faith and good will.
It could have been all so different.

-- Rupert M Loydell

Paul Ryan BOOED by crowds at Obama's inauguration
Michelle Obama cuts dash with new hair-do
UK snow: Map of areas on alert

Thursday, January 10, 2013

The Story Game


Choose a card: An eight. (A diamond.)
Lincoln, toy president, stranded with an ax.
Killing the top-hat category forever.

Choose a card: Seven of Argo.
The players plan attacks against a ship's fable,
with no lifeboat in sight to save the fans.

Choose a card: The drama of pi.
The hunt for its mystical spine.
A secret picture in a thimble.  Pass.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Syria's rebels form own secret police
"Lincoln," "Life of Pi" lead Oscar race
Monopoly set to replace one of its tokens

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Own Suited Features


fingers even only have what grip odd
thumb odd especially has which grips even
geometry a spurred question to rein a within

apple the shown a being potatoes relative that
means the means a urging hand destructive that
force a rein doubt to spurred a against

scope tiny well had which palms giant
palm giant enough might that enlist tiny
potatoes the found a looming apple constructive that

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Obama Splits Republicans With CEOs Favoring Tax Increase
The evolution of the hand: Making a fist of it
Apple's patent victory may be small in larger battle with Samsung

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Approved As Appropriate


Which of the initial snippets will be badly repeated,
when the anchoring watchdog on committees of snippets
condemned or intended for the so-called

Internet, underpinned by enshrining licensing engines,
has to ban their standards and publish their transgressions?
If you want to discuss a collision,

you must take a collision course.
The latter regulator would argue with prohibiting criticism,
although the former passages reassure statutory amateurs.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Golfweek: You can argue, but anchoring ban a done deal
Leveson Report calls for media watchdog underpinned by law
Google fights proposed German law on news links

Thursday, November 08, 2012

The Famous Planet


Much as wings believe feathers to be thought,
the path to camp or pinnacle advanced by glittery devices
on a treacherous catwalk of miracles 20ft over the Earth,

over sweet flags of playful crystals,
over hoops and lashings of glowing Tiger Lily,
and ranged on stone wings of lightweight microlith,

relishing its blunt unsuitable edge
fashioned by a complicated hammer
to follow the small and cunning years.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Communist Party Congress: Hu Jintao dismisses hopes of reform
Victoria's Secret: Rihanna performs as Brits invade the catwalk
What made us human? Being ARMED with lethal ranged weapons

Sunday, November 04, 2012

Political Alcohol, Punctuated


Eight days before voters
go to the environment
as he addresses the storm.

Campaigns ads are still running
on TV. In
an appearance in the universe, it

might be less common than we
previously thought. A new study
suggests it may be the storm.

-- Eric Elshtain

The nearer the bar, the greater the chances of risky drinking
How hurricane Sandy tests Obama, Romney
Asteroid Belts Could Be Key to Finding Alien Life

Monday, October 22, 2012

Airship Socialized Parachutes


The truth is that the Wall
Street lobby has spent more than three
quarters of the impression

that led to the herald.
Lance Armstrong was at the herald.
Two people were aboard. No

one was injured in the
country? No one was injured in
the country? Witness the U.S.

-- Eric Elshtain

World Cycling Body Strips Armstrong of Titles
'Romney Blimp' Crash Lands in Florida
Viewpoint: How Wall Street Rigs the Game

Friday, October 19, 2012

While Over Meanwhile


in events globe bugs suggest first a format
as analyzed prehensile and transition presence added
as converged microscopic and subscription context clashed

of be these could antennas and
of air salt trolleys bark both a country
for summit ferries amber hitchhike winged a million

for be tree's will audience and
as perched mobile and beasts flights unearthed
by part measures partnerships spread staged a parliament

--Glenn R. Frantz

Greek Unions Stage Strike as Samaras Attends EU Summit
Tiny ancient critter hitched rides on insect wings
A Turn of the Page for Newsweek

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Its Curious Islands


Sidelines of the canton.
The 100th neighborhood playground opens.
Lizards and salamanders.

The biology of construction is hot assembly.
Raising reefs up to islets.
To regrow a spiny new sea.

The trust administers its guitars by a field.
Fire transformed an uninhabited parcel.
Painted scene of a picnic.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

African Mouse Can Regenerate Skin
A Century of Memories
China cites Japanese wartime history to bolster Senkakus claim

Saturday, September 08, 2012

Brother Machine Launch


First the wife time
that a seven-inch firm urges
service to the cause, mortem.

Second, the Neighbouring Foundation
will match deaths with details
in the run-up to kick

twice the brother
over 11-hour Alps.
Give it resolution.

-- Jude Cowan Montague

Alps shooting victims shot twice in the head
Amazon launches new Kindle Fire
Stoptober anti-smoking campaign launched by Government

Thursday, September 06, 2012

For Baggy Reasons


New findings in molecular radio show that
the DNA code has within it many little comments.
They are thought to have been published previously

by animals and such, as a living valentine
to encode the frustration born of
all the complex effort underlying nature.

But human scientists are not afraid.
The levers may twist with strange causes, but
joking can help create enthusiasm.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

DNA's 'Junk' Now Seen as Lever Controlling Future Health
Flying Vladimir Putin leads birds on first ever migration
Outburst shows strain on Bobby Valentine


Thursday, August 16, 2012

Guessed Despite Appearances


inadvertently an at recognition buttoned asking
barely the like stems identified having
a won't song awkward playing desist

an hasn't recognition absent asking changes
the don't stems wild having switch
won't apparently awkward from desist imagined

hasn't inadvertently absent at changes buttoned
don't barely wild like switch identified
apparently a from song imagined playing

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Silversun Pickups Ask Mitt Romney To Stop Using Their Song
Facebook using Dublin HQ to avoid software change
Pussy Riot verdict caps Putin's hundred days

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Mind Media Player


Channels have sensitivity to sequence, praise, and humor.
Commentary adapted for a transition glitch
started stories pleading sweetly, futilely little.

Have deleted, to fierce praise, a humor microblog
adapted from a blueprint glitch: positive stories,
commenters sweetly criticizing; little nudge.

Deleted channels: fierce sensitivity; a sequence microblog;
and from commentary, blueprint for positive transition.
Commenters started, criticizing, pleading, nudge futilely.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Google pleads for YouTube real-name use
China censors Beijing floods coverage
Olympic ticker: North Korean flag flap

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Rethinking Joyful Fate


We don't know anything about creative
solutions to solve the world’s biggest problems,
or Russia's once-vaunted superhero.

We have no idea when the movie ends.
Certain people spend days on Facebook,
to avoid spinning around the Earth.

I believe in a combination of accidents,
an experimental science lab playing the guessing game.
Among other things, fate is the final scene.

-- Chris Canella

Joyful crews unite aboard space station
The speculation rises over Batman's fate
Rethinking the Concept of "Outliers"

Sunday, July 15, 2012

tyler finds plankton


one boson spoke currently. actually.
which achieve sun Wolf place extremely bloom
colorful still "greening," bursting, "whitening,"

throwing fully. afloat, Tyler the Creator jabs water.
an immense week. color changes in stages, right?
love didn't summer the one-in-3.5-million.

Love is photosynthesis, Tyler. Sigma sigma.
and by extension is them, the possible significance
is in the swirling merry whirlpools.

-- Paul Christian

Will Frank Ocean's Revelation Change Odd Future?
Swirling ocean prompts plankton blooms, suggests study
How to Be Sure You've Found a Higgs Boson

The Wry Commons


The kind chief of midsummer, a Swiss man of answers,
admitted the scandal in sympathy.
He was the plant on the secret committee

seated at the bottom of the Thames
to escape meltdowns in the reactors of government.
I was sinking, bumrushed, cooling the evasive philosophy

that the eyebrows of parliamentary alacrity
openly pleaded for. His deft suffering humor
could provide a whimsical treasury of wisdom.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Japan's nuclear disaster was 'man-made'
Roger Federer sets up Wimbledon showdown
MPs admit they let Diamond slip away

Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Scorching Death Conflict


Mr. Diamond was picked up by the local
authorities. He lost days from a violent
weekend. He killed at least 18 people.

Unable to run, some died in the midst
of oppressive power. Some people lost
their senses amid the local "death spiral."

High concerns escalated after
Mr. Diamond was threatening to mount
a highly aggressive comeback.

 -- Chris Cannella

  Scorching heat roasts eastern United States
Barclays the Loser in Diamond Conflict
RIM CEO: No, really, we're not in a 'death spiral'

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Decapitator Wide-field Pennsylvania


while searching for planets blah blah blah we see
cluster vampires get sliced and diced you’ll likely enjoy
how history prefers to get all of the stars

right from the start victims try to resolve claims the
earth-like planets i blame the mainstream media
as the sun or smaller it wants to wrap up

this historical horror fantasy is waxing privately
expeditiously and fairly address the ax-to-grind
but also to help them or at least semi-seriously

-- alana madison

Penn State signals wants to close Sandusky sex abuse cases
Movie Review: Lincoln has an ax to grind with vampires
Star Cluster Could Help Astronomers Find Earth-Like Planets

Thursday, June 14, 2012

When The Sidewalk

butter sunset echoes with addled the
maladroit flatters lake the at choreographer
is field as a as youngest afternoon

their sweetest the gracefully bid way admits of
tricky open eye the like photographer
their little the firmly champions sticker brushes in

is sound as a as oldest morning
incumbent tour rounds the on deliverymen
bumper sunrise resonates for amplified the

-- Glenn R. Frantz

President Barack Obama seeking to recalibrate
Again, an event for the ages
Adam Shankman rocks 'Rock of Ages'

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

While revolution flashes


Wes made a menopausal recommendation to the thousand ablaze.
Others called the replacement office to record the sweat while
several of the protestors forced a big round hormone history.

Flashes of a square, angry multiplex
who aimed the chanting, who made a revolution up.
Such an average face at moonrise racked with hopes and harms.

Not a 1960’s quirky dramedy of the heart.
In this memorial kingdom, the dreamgirls take kicking medicine
and the others budget in the bone of former wilderness.

-- Davi Rutenberg

Hormone replacement caution
Demonstrators angry at Egypt runoff candidates 
'Moonrise Kingdom' sets per-screen-average box office record


Ask The Oracle


Precedents are quickly spoiled,
like a cartoon snowball rolling downhill,
a catastrophe guaranteed to keep everyone in stitches.

Predictions are often doomed by someone else's stubbornness.
It seems nothing was learned,
aside from the fact that I was blatantly misquoted.

But how feeble an oracle would I be
if I had no delusional suspicions?
Disappointingly, they are not copyrightable.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Euro Crisis: Is the Currency (Finally) Doomed?
Caught Holding the Facebook Bag
Google is cleared of Java patent infringement in Android

Friday, May 11, 2012

Optimistic Summer Weekend


One who starts out early can run a long way
with a baton, on a beach,
on which the high tides have imprinted a natural timeline.

He describes the way the brightest part of the sky
coincides with the closest show of folksy marketing,
but he won't be superstitious in the 7-Eleven.

Michael Jackson's new video, "the MAking of SODA pop"
reportedly will feature one billion cans of Pepsi.
(Also, werewolves.)

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Zuckerberg Plays Host in New Facebook IPO Video
Michael Jackson To Appear On Pepsi Cans
The Supermoon is Upon Us

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Secret Cosmic Nun


Sitting on how she thought they are likely
Not speaking out of the official version
Of the collapse of the men, and in a

Mystery of the reputation of
The leadership, another prostitute,
One. There are extraordinarily powerful

Explosions in outer space. Cosmic rays
Are likely not potential culprits, with
A spat that tracked with the Hotel Caribe.

-- Edde Addad, using the jGnoetry interactive poetry generator

Vatican orders crackdown on American nuns
Escort Recounts Quarrel With Secret Service Agent
Bizarre cosmic ray mystery deepens

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Its Day Lasted


wake only patrol the short foolproof when break
sleep purposefully sleep the sheer Arctic where birds
ice rhythm skirts over and cycles the

break iceberg lag into and glaciers the
gripped birdlike who travelers
slept flightless when dinosaurs

circadian perished among or gigantic
longer tipped in and disrupted
devise also shift the each due what remains

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Small icebergs can be the real killers
Dinosaur Egg Fossils Discovered In Patagonia
Why Shift Work and Sleeplessness Lead to Weight Gain and Diabetes

Saturday, March 24, 2012

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)

Wednesday, March 07, 2012

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

Thursday, March 01, 2012

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

Thursday, February 23, 2012

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

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

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

Sunday, February 12, 2012

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

Thursday, February 09, 2012

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'

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

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

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

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'

Monday, January 30, 2012

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

Saturday, January 28, 2012

synthetic dante results

the best gift a writer can have is an unhappy childhood
shipped abroad after being “cooked” in make-shift lab
editors slapped a silly headline on though

flooding the global market on an almost unprecedented scale
he had his first (and second-to-last) glimpse of Beatrice
fieldwalking flint enthusiasts are participating

human heads deposited in the walbrook stream
include ecstasy and methamphetamine
the first star of the Romantic period -- and indeed

-- alana madison

Exclusive: Canada's illicit drug export boom
Lively costume drama dramatizes birth of a poet
Recent Archaeomags

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Shit Robert Burns Says

My most famous poem is "To Ruth Lily: On Turning
Up in Her $200 Million Nest With Mousie and a Plough."
Who throws a haggis party in Chicago (seriously)?

But, Ruth, O wad some Power the $200 million giftie
thou gie us. Still thou art best, compared wi' me! I check
in on Path in my kilt, an' then send it to Foursquare an'

Tumblr, an' Tumblr auto posts to Twitter an' Facebook,
an' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain an' bagpipes. But
oh! I "get" TechCrunch, but I just canna "get" Harriet.

-- Angela Genusa

A century of "Poetry"
Someone Finally Makes "Shit Silicon Valley Says"
Hoot mon! Louisville celebrates Robert Burns

Monday, January 23, 2012

As Day Falls

There's a point where stories circulate out of our history
and hit back at the rudder that attention draws in space.
These precious patterns that counterfeiters improve:

They fought piracy with a branded cow,
and everyone sells adverts around them.
The warming carbon is absorbing emissions,

especially carbon-14. There's danger in rainfall, chairman,
and in not passing quickly on the freeway.
Therefore, you dream more, and point to the Shift key.


-- Glenn R. Frantz

Time to warm up to this study, if we want to stay cooler
Rupert Murdoch Sopa attack rebuffed by Google
Keeping Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream alive with stories, art

Thursday, January 12, 2012

dead art horse

Damien Hirst declared dead,
his daughter missing (to murder),
the army bombs grip King Kim.

On all rifles, they defend American paintings.
New York fears Korea’s globalizing galleries,
on and before and after September 11.

Hirst’s disappearance was meaningless.
Simultaneously, keeping most contemporary,
Gagosian might spot a dynasty the capitalist could use.

-- Paul Christian

Hirst’s Druggy Spots Circle World in 11 Gagosian
Shows Kim Jung-un tightens grip on power
Alabama judge to declare Natalee Holloway dead

Aggravated American Children

Two police men club ANOTHER mother,
The Ravens were sporting sexual assault,
but peanut mouths die he child hospital.

Salt growing on her breasts, unclear
He’ll what’s anaphylaxis but approached
to the girl, grabbed her false elbow.

Yes, the crime the woman go detective
Space-age playground and had a dance and
A dance and then a can with him. (He’s 23).

-- Paul Christian

Man charged for stabbings, sex assault at SLC night club
Girl's death highlights allergy safety in schools
GEORGE CLOONEY: I'm Goin' Under the Knife AGAIN

Saturday, December 24, 2011

The Obvious Angle

Researchers in the Netherlands have been trying to publish
an insanely terrible play called "The Quantum Misfit."
It's the story of a buffalo, its secret lairs, and its

much more sensible play, "Today Is A Long Way From Now."
The buffalo sets its play on the Sun,
where the horizon is like a spreadable nuclear Disneyland.

However, the Earth, which requires more efficiency than
its solar brother, is developing gradually lengthening days
that can simply be painted onto to any usable surface.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Solar Cells You Can Paint On
More to fear than wonky North Korea
Winter solstice, 2011

Thursday, December 01, 2011

That Short Decided

king sugar of freeze over free extending to
hike logs in expire on fast expiring to
trees but thaw that rang and fracas

cathedral and cut that cuts but trinkets
provision the rattling giveaways of
results suspension with bring for your agreeing to

maps and purchase that match and chain
cab the jarring parts throughout
bitter the sputtering rash in

Glenn R. Frantz

Tap twice to fill a void
The Tragic Death of the Temporary Tax Cut
Burger King joins McDonald's in charging for kids' meal toys

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Crowd and Bay

Out in the crowd at midday, England's items turn,
like plans and setbacks, and officers who heard
the crowd that song accompanied. Invading a crowd

as a fraction of a crowd beyond its borders, as a species
of function spiraled smoothly out in the bay. At midday,
England's items turn like plans and setbacks and officers.

Who heard the bay that song accompanied invading?
A bay as a fraction of a bay beyond,
its borders as a species of function, spiraled smoothly.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

London Calling: Students Flood Streets to Protest Tuition Hikes
The Band Perry 'So Honored' With CMA Wins, Crossover Success
Cancer treatment shows promise for rapid weight loss

Sunday, October 30, 2011

public ashram movember

During the seven months that he wandered in
others a Fu Manchu
did not call 911 staff "bitches."

Into a shouting match with a village woman
who was mixing water in the milk she
listened to the three emergency calls.

A must-read for anyone who wants
to know more about life, leadership
and the mayor did not use the word 'bitches.'

-- alana madison

Spotted: Your comments on Rob Ford's 911 call
The Hippie who became a Prophet
Upper lips go hairy

Friday, October 28, 2011

splendid cut-offs throne

It begins in the morning at a farm house would
take precedence over younger brothers and
doesn’t pursue the matter any further by

Something more majestic than a buck-toothed rodent
whose real name is Martha
of state unanimously approved the changes

Strength, courage, resourcefulness and dignity
Lucy believes she has left an abusive boyfriend
and a powerful symbol in the lives of the North

-- alana madison

Canada urged to swap beaver emblem for bear
Girls equal in British throne succession
Martha Marcy May Marlene: Anatomy of an identity meltdown

Monday, October 24, 2011

Something Crossed Out

There's no place to go any longer.
So, we've no place to attack.
I don't know what would come between

mistaken and its substitute.
It is better to accept the impossible,
to be safe on both sides of the border.

To write down in diplomatic language
the face without the value, truth but no consequences;
thinking much in seven-league havens.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Hamish McRae: Greece will have no choice but to leave eurozone
Clinton Issues Blunt Warning to Pakistan
Cardinals strike first in World Series

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

angry hunger crisis

There's another angry rally planned for core
demands, including a clothier that nearly was for
lower Manhattan Tuesday - bear one more.

Thousands of employees and japan's education
join the California department of rehabilitation
claiming the CDCR did not address their rage continuation.

Labor leaders, wall street protesters will vent
and metal prices tumbled, lost 1.4 percent
of their five core demands, the lowest different.

-- eddeaddad using ePoGeeS

Occupy Wall Street protesters to join forces with protest at City Hall over education layoffs
12,000 California Prisoners Protest Living Conditions With Inmate Hunger Strike
Asia Stocks Fall as Concern Over Europe's Debt Crisis Deepens

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Signature and Anvil

bring will the signature magic forward reef
alter has the signature remarkable only shell
signature ability on is dotted blend the

signature need of is certain example the
underwater actually signature bring will the anvil
magic forward reef alter has the anvil

remarkable only shell anvil ability on is
dotted blend the anvil need of is
certain example the underwater actually anvil

-- Glenn R. Frantz

WISE COLUMN: Start the day with free java from Krispy Kreme
Want to Be More Open-Minded? Magic Mushrooms Help
Fish known as wrasses are found to use tools

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

suburban swiss republican

a combative tone entered a plea although he isn't
required to at this stage suburban snow-clearing
standards just cut our way out of this hole

the mayor elected on a pledge of the perilous state
in a defiant rose garden as a result of
unauthorized activities is vowing to protect library

branches tame the nation were wondering whether
to slow down the burst left by plows
at the end of driveways now you have your answer

-- alana madison

Toronto ends all-night budget meeting
Scandal at UBS Tilts Talk on Rules
Obama proposes new taxes on wealthy

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Misrata Zanzibar Gomez

loyalists mounting fierce resistance
trapped in the town a maze of hills
nearly 200 people drowned and tour

operators for scores of people slung across
her shoulders a "thorough coaching" on the
politics of canadian hockey including scud

missiles that have already launched
the worst maritime disaster in at least 15 years
figures were hiding in the desert bastion

-- alana madison

Gaddafi's diehard secret police dig in
Dozens drown as Zanzibar ferry sinks
Keira Knightley risks rankling T.O. fans with Habs jersey

Saturday, September 10, 2011

9/11 Quake 2.0

Two of nearly three people, suspected
to be Americans. Two of nearly three
thousand Americans – a decade ago.

A joint. The prone region. 100 tremors.
A possible car bomb. Common. Some 1,000
quakes of the state. A slight rattling. No signs

of the timing. And the source – even though
it came from al Qaeda – and the method –
common through Europe – names the U.S. city.

-- Sherre Vernon

Vancouver Spared from Harm in 6.4 Earthquake
Al Qaeda 2.0 Behind Fresh 9/11 Terror Threat?
New York cracks down after "credible" 9/11 threat

Friday, September 09, 2011

spotlight gunshots scramble

George Clooney has
no time for
questions turned tables

tearing down the
wall surrounding the
building headquarters on

fire sending “flirtatious"
emails because it
is the weekend

-- alana madison

George Clooney has no time for talk of love life at TIFF
Tory MP apologizes for 'flirtatious' e-mails to Chinese reporter
Protesters in Egypt breach wall, enter Israeli Embassy

Just Hints, Unconfirmed

The tunnels fill, and even foot patrols abandon the city.
Surveillance is slowly cut off, details growing sketchy
as bridges are submerged by the creeping floodwaters.

The plodding news reports. The conference at 2 A.M.
I put the question at the shy feet of an unnamed minister.
Asked him about his threats of forgetting

all information that is uncorroborated.
But, "We do live in the transitional patchwork
of an elusive stability," as the hydrologist said.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Tens of thousands displaced as floodwaters deluge region
Libya's interim PM says battle 'not yet over'
New York on high alert over 9/11 anniversary terror threat

Just Hints, Unconfirmed

The tunnels fill, and even foot patrols abandon the city.
Surveillance is slowly cut off, details growing sketchy
as bridges are submerged by the creeping floodwaters.

The plodding news reports. The conference at 2 A.M.
I put the question at the shy feet of an unnamed minister.
Asked him about his threats of forgetting

all information that is uncorroborated.
But, "We do live in the transitional patchwork
of an elusive stability," as the hydrologist said.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Tens of thousands displaced as floodwaters deluge region
Libya's interim PM says battle 'not yet over'
New York on high alert over 9/11 anniversary terror threat

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Rising Ferocious Rebels

The Africane Irene
was erected. That’s
the Tripoli, Libyan area and

Afghanistan, and life-threats once workers
have so far from
Al Qaeda's. All agreed

the priority will also
raise water, fuel and
spread panic.

-- edde addad and charNG

Rebels battle Gadhafi loyalists in a number of strongholds
Car bombing in Nigeria kills 18 at UN base
Winds, rain pound North Carolina as Hurricane Irene closes in

Monday, August 22, 2011

technical treasonous touchdown

now for the hard warming
showing signs of offensive offensive
relinquish treacherous protestors

66 yards of science after president obama
bloodshed controls civilians on a gun charge
acknowledge first headlines

gaddafi drew separation from the left memorable
cincinnati zone really cared
evolution has come to an end

-- Rhoda Penmarq

TexMessage: Rick Perry faces a tougher, second look
Hot reads: Burress solid in return; Rivers sharper than Romo
Obama says Gaddafi rule collapsing, supports rebels

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Rhymes—Only $1

Poetry is a garishly yellow Dollar Tree store
in Salem, Ore. You've seen the "As Seen on TV"
ad — a famously cool anti-poet pushing

a superabsorbent poem down an aisle we're calling,
merely, "Gunk." A local poet who writes a blog,
"Knockoff To A Nightingale," is worried about

the high cost of poetry. Living in the toy aisle,
streaked in orange goo, she writes extreme-discount
12-line poems for— wow!— about a dollar.

-- Angela Genusa

Orange goo on Alaska shore was fungal spores
The Dollar-Store Economy
Happy National Bad Poetry Day: Houston's Worst Poem



Thursday, August 18, 2011

Wild Lunar Ritual

The moon's crust is a cookie ecology of dense crunchy layers
blanketed by white highlands of cooled vanilla cream.
T, do let's Think about the

E, Evolution of the Earth's candid photos of some
A, Awkward continents on
M, molten Magma.

TEAM of rare animals in tropical jeeps! Give the moon
a triple spin to show its hidden chocolate face,
and dunk it in the ocean to start eating.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Candid Camera: on the wild side
Moon may be younger than thought, study says
Kraft stacks the deck with Oreo Triple Double

Friday, July 29, 2011

Like Growling Under

you the storm would who so thought or
plaster than it looms overnight when left
it the saucers have which so dislodged and

stranger than they slumber often who does
despite the cowboys rainfall methods swept missing the
downpour stranded were in the inside layer that

for the mines prototypes production mash misguided the
of the scowl powder aircraft flop geared the
land collapsed were by the inside landslide that

-- Glenn R. Frantz

3D printing: the technology that could re-shape the world
'Cowboys & Aliens' isn't even good popcorn fun
South Korean deluge triggers landslides, kills dozens

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Shielded exile conglomerate

television legitimacy declines
when sessions contradicted
its Average types

weeks of researchers
lower the complexity
of Foreign exile

something was dormant
biggest was blue
that Industrial loss

-- composed with WpN by edde addad

US Stocks Drop As Deadlock On Debt Ceiling Prompts Concerns
Rare Volcanoes Discovered on 'Dark Side' of the Moon
Could Gaddafi go into 'internal exile' in Libya

Friday, July 22, 2011

Honest Seekers In

The incestuous trains
of politicians, the relentless
pitchfork outside the gates.

Newspapers admitted they
had no information. The public
took comfort in bars, in mourning,

until earthquake, tsunami, and
nuclear meltdown, until dignity
chanted its name.

-- Shane Clements

In Japan, an overflowing cup of pride
Music goers, sun seekers, brave high, humid temps
We deserve an honest and uncorrupted police force

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Honest Seekers In

The incestuous trains
of politicians, the relentless
pitchfork outside the gates.

Newspapers admitted they
had no information. The public
took comfort in bars, in mourning,

until earthquake, tsunami, and
nuclear meltdown, until dignity
chanted its name.

-- Shane Clements

In Japan, an overflowing cup of pride
Music goers, sun seekers, brave high, humid temps
We deserve an honest and uncorrupted police force

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Defiant Robotic Bubbles

The approach of the embattled students was suspicious.
The dwarf family contained no murdered child left behind.
A culture of shame and contrition huddled on the asteroid.

Investigators were pressured to phone the US News.
On his knees, a higher-performing detective fired the probe.
His guardian will be struggling in the 530km-wide room.

Beginning in 2001, they could copy an illegal law.
Defiant, the Atlanta schoolgirl revealed pictures.
Mr. Ceres, in atonement, was released at dawn.

-- Madeline Barnicle

Murdoch's day of atonement
Atlanta Schools Created Culture of Cheating, Fear
Dawn probe orbits asteroid Vesta

Thursday, July 07, 2011

Large Game News

Los Impasse, New Mexico plans to study whether
advice leaflets given to bobcats and mountain lions
have any impact on their escape after a mandatory wildfire.

A coyote's license to fish could be posted on streets
as thirsty hands have begun reopening. Also,
a Grand Scale, Minnesota restaurant's new wildlife program

has questioned whether licensing would make economists
any better able to hold their liquor; while
the Depressed Reason Bureau just hands out money to bears.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Study Shows Benefits of Providing Medical Insurance to Poor
If you go down to Los Alamos today...
Minnesota government shutdown costly to state and businesses

Large Game News

Los Impasse, New Mexico plans to study whether
advice leaflets given to bobcats and mountain lions
have any impact on their escape after a mandatory wildfire.

A coyote's license to fish could be posted on streets
as thirsty hands have begun reopening. Also,
a Grand Scale, Minnesota restaurant's new wildlife program

has questioned whether licensing would make economists
any better able to hold their liquor; while
the Depressed Reason Bureau just hands out money to bears.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Study Shows Benefits of Providing Medical Insurance to Poor
If you go down to Los Alamos today...
Minnesota government shutdown costly to state and businesses

Friday, June 17, 2011

The Brief Avenger

the golden register still rings
after the iconic $1 bills have been incinerated,
its heyday to spiral out to intergalactic emeraldhood,

prologue to a renamed movie that argues for loopholes
in the global tabulating of its worried megaplexes,
neither brave nor bloated enough

for the simpler times blandly enjoyed
between the dog-eared and the do-gooders,
the brief avenger that even seems forever-long

-- Glenn R. Frantz

GOP shifting on anti-tax policy
Big Blue Turns 100: IBM's Anniversary is One to Celebrate
'Green Lantern' passable, plausible -- none too illuminating

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Beyond The Catskills

I've been to college.
I understand well the physics of flypaper,
and other vast amorphous concepts.

I know how to sing "Hey Jude" backwards,
while carrying spiders down fire escape ladders.
I'm irreplaceable...patiently waiting next door.

Let's ban hide and seek. Let's face jail time.
Let's cause intense emotional distress.
Let's be quirky. Let's tiptoe together towards infinity.

-- Scott H. Stoller

Lives Cut Short by Depression
A brief introduction to infinity
Tenn. law bans posting images that "cause emotional distress"

Wednesday, June 01, 2011

The Memory Suicide

It’s a little shocking to lose parts of us:
the painful memories and iconic moments
erased in the sunshine of a city beach.

Most pictures die. Constructing a new past
brings welcome relief, rubbing out remembrances
of our three months in San Francisco Bay.

We stand on the shore of mangled months
watching as time disappears below the water,
making no attempt to rescue remembrances.

-- Jenni B. Baker

Pill could erase painful memories, study shows
Happy 85th birthday, Marilyn Monroe
After officials watch man drown, city changes policy

Selling Heavy Rain

Across nations,
expensive war-era simplicity---
elementary guidance,

fabulously exact.
A relaxed anxiety kept it new.
Thought over order,

or order over thought?
Breathe, you discarded suicides,
breathe.

-- Scott H. Stoller

Are you taking too many meds?
Woman selling 'suicide kits' reignites right-to-die debate
Pentagon seeks mini-weapons for new age of warfare

Friday, May 27, 2011

Preparing Statement Tentacle

the inside hides mouth its spoke
pineapple roof blade and nineteen pure segmented
the with misspoke hides its mouthful

thought fakes gills and far curious elongated
smoldering yet cool or hardly
aflutter back fantastical and very

chip plates tablets and sharp flexible divided
the at shovel stalks its jaws
ring screens square and square both befuddled

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Egyptian tunnel town faces up to change
Windows 8: What Should Be, If You Ask Me
Prehistoric sea monster lived longer and grew bigger

Friday, May 20, 2011

Released from Norms

Images of paralysis: misunderstandings,
cultural mores from the waist down
and books being readied for the coffin.

We are entering an electrical era,
a lifetime of unprecedented stimulation,
devices assaulting ankles and knees.

The public’s intensive rehabilitation
kindles haggard steps of regained relief:
An ability to stand. The difference of hips.

-- Jenni B. Baker

Small steps for paralyzed man, giant leaps for treating spinal cord injuries
Amazon and Waterstones report downloads eclipsing printed book sales
Strauss-Kahn ‘Perp Walk,’ Naming Victim Divide France, U.S.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

A Bizarre View

Strung border to border
air bound for dehydration
water roped by containers

Good chance to view a problem
potentially unknown, ignore their code
an evolved cat-and-mouse game

Conspiracy inspired, widespread
genetically generating a new truth
engineered theory of a child

-- David T. Snyder

Mexico police find 513 US-bound migrants in trucks
Microsoft: One in 14 Downloads Is Malicious
New book says USSR was behind Roswell UFO

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Shaken and Grand

The century is an idealized past, a bad relationship.
Woody Allen films beauty shots of the spectacle,
as people recall the falling towers, the intense quake.

Forced out of their homes, residents find solace
in city streets while nostalgia-minded writers
premiere scenes of chaos in overpriced hotels.

Shooting along the year’s prolific rim, the city
expands living memory past the midnight panic,
opens a parachute and wafts to the present.

-- Jenni B. Baker

Spain: Lorca shaken by earthquakes
‘Jetman’ zooms along rim of Grand Canyon in first US flight
Cannes fetes Woody Allen and ‘Midnight in Paris’

Monday, May 09, 2011

Humiliation All Around

The theory of engineers says, this year the clock will be
the symbol for all objects. The globe a scattered fountain,
twirling in a bowl of perfect brightness.

Now the fleas have become the rat.
French troops drag the Missouri river for a lost horse.
The garden of bitter syrup is looted to spare opium.

Which confluence of mellow predictions
would divert the apple from its spinning?
Demolition will keep the ox out, but does not stop the boar.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

The meaning of Ai Weiwei's 12 Zodiac Heads
Our Opinion: River shows who's boss
Stanford study backs Einstein's relativity theory

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Hold The Leaves

A week of strange plates. Bears
sweeping up sapphires
for the farm engagement, a crying pair

of cubs. The protestant tried a “popular
outdoor lookalike” on
worshipers. A replica bear recently walked.

Tian Church sounds its 1000’s | a hugely curious
cub-mother from HONG KONG picks out
a twin souvenir. Dozens of mugs gather in a home.

-- Annabella Massey

Royal Wedding: China's big souvenir takeaway
China detains Protestant Shouwang devotees
Twin bear cubs rescued by Chinese farmer

Friday, April 15, 2011

This Year's Programs

As nobody said, "Myopia is the testimony of the recent
against the many." So instead, I added a history jury.
Most of them didn't swear much,

except for one brontosaurus that had a cynicism deficit.
Unlike "The Loudest Obstruction Diet,"
there are not scads of prizes. (Or a severe skin reaction.)

Al Capone counts to a trillion
while he smiles at a baby grand.
And voilá, the new episode of "Brazen Justice"!

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Barry Bonds convicted of felony
Cannes Film Festival: What Directors Are Saying
Mr. Prudent: Obama Preaches Deficit Sanity