Precise Civilian Hostage

Exactly four clandestine arsenals go public yesterday,
morguing wild hardware. Pennsylvania hangs Iraqi cats
and requests mountain guns to calm civilians.

Attorneys acknowledge the schoolhouse breeds commotion,
with hourly crossings quadrupled in this rugged county.
Dispassionate, elusive, Mr. Kill authorized the undercount

when sneaking jaguars screamed, “No Baghdad!”
Check back for margins. Everybody’s precise: smugglers,
dispatchers, government. Formidable accuracy’s American.

--Lance Newman

911 Transcripts Are Released in Amish School Shooting
Iraqi Dead May Total 600,000, Study Says
Gone for Decades, Jaguars Steal Back to the Southwest

Hidden Lettuce Bomb

Pages plant luxury seed, nuclear crops, media damage.
A leafy spokesman-type denies reality:
the North’s purported ally, reclusive consumers.

Spent investigators contact Pyongyang, threaten scandal.
China's communist farmers launch bacterial standoff.
Should Russia know? Should the World?

Concentrate, Congressman: Aren’t wilting
nations the problem, alongside the ministry? Think.
Executive suite. Six-party morning. Miles from anyone....

--Lance Newman

Voluntary Lettuce Recall Creates More Worry for Farmers
Hastert: Anyone who knew about Foley 'should go'
U.S. rejects direct talks with North Korea