Long Sunburn Overdrive

The fisherman is angered if you call it blackmail,
so just call it fishing --
in seaweed and super international magnets.

Spending days in the company's long queues
with their ramps, turns, and intersections,
and mimicking their baits and jumps.

But matter introduces much that you can build yourself --
like pants with interlocking tabs, and ringers in any shape?
The future of U-turns has delivered its kingfish.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Greeks head towards Sunday vote in anger and confusion
The last of the Jersey Shore fishing piers
Anki's Killed Slot Cars With Overdrive's Customizable Tracks

Extract Empty Silence

hoping they extract the essence of the matter
artificial neural network bizarre set of images
image fed into the input layer adjusting network parameters

martyr to political correctness the lamest of gender jokes
greeted with stony silence for every action too far gone
tried to be honest about issues some kind reasoned debate

oddly provincial in outlook recommendations of friends
packs a century of upheaval an almost uncanny beauty
later corpse would be bathed hinted wrong completely empty

-- Clark Allison

Google revealed images created by dreaming computer
The hysteria over Sir Tim Hunt’s 'joke’ stops open debate
Lost in translation? Here’s my top 10 foreign novels

World In Itself

I was having lunch on the width of the Internet.
I only know the cinematic Earth
and the captive words that describe it.

Balloons gravitating to kindergarten,
the steward of human pressure and handpicked dust,
larger than a ring of Saturn.

Famous for its existence projects, it is made up mostly
of invisible hair from an ambitious spacecraft
and the afternoon buzzing of a phoebe.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

'Jurassic World' is Trevorrow Land
Google launches Sidewalk Labs to fix cities
Saturn's biggest ring is weird, invisible and really, really big

Key and Newspaper

on show key brash and
including key tongued barbs raised the
as key based radiation collided

floor to of key telling instead confidential
as space taped names found
on show newspaper brash and

including newspaper tongued barbs raised the
as newspaper based radiation collided
floor to of newspaper telling instead confidential

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Rare Supernova Burst Shines Light on Its Mysterious Origins
Top 10 new species of 2015 include artistic fish, fanged frog
Greece's Varoufakis courts controversy anew with taping remark

Confidence in Reforms

deep in ground raid territory operation carried direction
group terror finances war machine elite counter-command
aircraft riddled with bullet holes monitoring speculation

clear dividing contest to replace lines confidence vote
simmering resentment and recrimination vying to succeed
near-wipeout highly charged modernising wing

the cards only possible if reforms kept up pressure
running out painful creditors insisting action any case
vote on decisions depended bailout money no majority

-- Clark Allison

Labour leadership: Battle lines are drawn
Delta Force Commandos Kill Key ISIS Leader in Ground Raid
Germany urges Greece to undertake reforms to unlock funds

Re-Inventing What Drifts

in the real world postmortem before funeral
mourning over, inquests could begin appealing middle-classes
get this done in 45 minutes can't we photographer's studio

I time start consciously coiffed edgy dandy sharp
needs to become a big tent just re-inventing
into the gutter of anxieties stay open and present

increases engagement enhances decision-making
what he was doing at the end just to get on with life
burnout resiliency it drifts paying attention on purpose

-- Clark Allison

Paul Weller: ‘I miss the chaos and madness’
Being mindful can help reduce stress, maintain mental health
Chuka Umunna is ordained by Peter Mandelson

Those Plucky Ambiguities

An ambiguity is a funny truism,
in that its deconvolution is eloquently unknowable.
Just study this: What lives on pablum,

can't smell color, evades horizons,
could win a plurality of the unpopular votes,
and according to a spy on Earth,

you usually see it playing baseball with real orioles?
And by the way, when is an enigma not enigmatic?
When it's a riddle.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Spiegel: The Fitting Oddity of a Fanless Ballgame
NASA probe shows Pluto might have a polar ice cap
England spells more trouble for union than Scotland

Fuel Exit Myth

the concept a fabrication created a myth of nuclear weapons
military sites tantamount selling out source threat itself
have to be prepared hardening rhetoric before negotiations

rupture of monetary union and Greek exit from the euro
currency bloc no longer vulnerable immediate chain-reaction
designed other purposes secure mayhem unleash better terms

clashes rebels air strikes pledged to fund UN aid appeal
popular committees militiamen fled coalition air war began
as control seized impoverished fierce water food and fuel

-- Clark Allison

Khamenei: U.S. created 'myth' of nuclear weapons
Europe ready for Grexit contagion
Clashes, Saudi-led air strikes kill 60 in Yemen