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

Marry Risk, Despairing

Flossing to me is despairing after knot.
The know of it is we five, nixed by the diagnosed wives.
Charged for activities linking highlighted attack

to supporters of attempted monologue.
Day Two: us container cynics caught Big Sunny in our ice -
couldn’t even gesture, we cream excitement.

Some increased risk of we, early to the Unity trees,
hating live idea of planting service after a religious
plan-your-own. I kept with it come a-problems time.

-- Katie Longofono

'I Chose Not to Have My Dad Give Me Away'
If spouse has dementia, your risk rises, too
Our Take - Jay's Blink-and-You-Missed-It Rip on Conan

Location In Reverse

People who sleep but don't think it will spread
take a task they've just learned,
and perform it on a computer screen and in their dreams,

but upon waking, those who learned to sleep geographically
think better of it than either those who sleep in a maze,
or those who sleep but don't report it,

or those who were asked to sit
in the sunken horizon of a virtual space
and study random scenes of the public's mind.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Dreaming is the brain's way of learning
Potentially lethal fungus moves south from Canada
Sunken Drilling Rig in Gulf Raises Questions

Previous Prototype Released

Splinter Cell Invertebrates
creep through the shadows
in a silent takedown best enjoyed slowly

next-generation tiny sea creatures
you think you look at them
Their double-agent play is stealthy stalking

Satisfying microscope features
eclipsed iPhone camera flash and video chatting
and the sloppy success of the Apple Engineer was placed on
        hold.

-- Cindy Underhill

Apple wants next-gen iPhone back
Marine Life Census Reveals Unknown Sea Creatures
Splinter Cell sequel satisfying despite schizophrenic gameplay

Damage Illegally Didn't

credibility rap a prime as slapping tip-toe
kangaroo row a big as entertaining bogus
punch I'd to of developing know the

questions I'm to for lining develop the
prisoner by on a obstruction a to trespassing
joke with of a zoo a at comedian

who yesterday going charged who yesterday was
it normally including thought he slowly was
absurdities shepherd a such as including first

-- Glenn R. Frantz

US state of Alabama sees red on Rudd retort
Japan Indicts Anti-Whaling Activist
April shines light on autism awareness

Reality Disputes Responsibility

The women bomb state-run Saturday,
Johannesburg the population,
intercept bullet man Mr. International.

Ancestors police the scornful madness of Italy,
Libya disputes another model. Berlusconi prepares;
posts women’s envelopes.

Zimbabwe,
belated gay capital -
a president makes a population.

-- Luke Yates

Bridge prepares for date with Kardashian
Zimbabwe Shrugs Off Gay Rights
Italian police find bullet in letter to Berlusconi

The Shoe Turned

I understand that inhalation of days of strawberry air
plucked seeds from a minefield with euphoric ferocity
to get a glue for all crops the properly independent

overlapping diversity cultivated a crippling trust in
that oath to deter and I understand it potentially
has more than half an island in common

with the Doomsday Archipelago and hallucinogens
conducted by teleconference with all confidence
a remote chemical judge and I understand that.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Arctic Seed Vault largest in the world
'Huffing' more popular among pre-teens than pot
Kaye takes on Paterson investigations

Snatch Fragile Hurt

Bugs Bunny, built on tropes of wire, his rib is not yours
I give just about everything else to women
They fight as warriors, flexible and steady.

The double bed the best form of defence
He’s vulnerable, he lays the blame
And protects the slow-burning land.

We discern only rhythm to history
James is born blowing up
Plows these years, sinks deeper.

-- Jeff Nichols

The Hurt Locker: So Right About Men, So Wrong About Addiction
Gordon Brown Blames Generals for Snatch Land Rover Fiasco
America, the Fragile Empire

Addictive Bangs Reported

Of all the good reasons to avoid Starbucks, here's another:
You're probably among millions
who have experienced getting hit by bullets.

Listening to the radio, your mind wanders to parties, first kisses...
Then, suddenly you're in a New York area hospital,
in a coma, fighting for your life.

There's no doubt about it.
Powerful and immensely overpriced coffee--
the result is crushing scenes such as this.

-- Scott Stoller

Starbucks's guns and lattes policy
The 10 Most Addictive Sounds in the World
Gang Starr MC Guru In Coma

3D Sharp-Eyed Therapy

Really! Venture into a kaleidoscopic land
To rescue inhabitants from an evil oppressor
An appaling toff re-imagining pure magic

The young man attaching something that looked
Suspiciously
Like a fake bomb to the underside of a prime minister

He said:
Treatments that that result in sustained improvements
        in behaviour are
Elusive.

-- Ashleagh Hurren

Tim Burton's magical Alice in Wonderland in 3D
The truth about the Mossad
Group therapy 'can help back pain sufferers'

Offer Assisted Horror

Hospital care was still not on,
Accused of blood payout.
A mix-up, failed by five-figure ulcers.

She vowed to campaign,
Prosecutions focused on hard clarity,
Motivation helping the battle.

High-speed service added nothing;
A due end announced
As customers aimed statements at the flagship.

-- Will Wood

Stafford Hospital: Drugs horror
Assisted suicide: Debbie Purdy welcomes new guidelines
Virgin to offer cable customers 100Mbps

Furious Laptop Voter

He finally hit plane spotters;
missed three powerful Indian staff,
humiliating, finally, archery.

Temper crazy,
illuminating bad bullying,
trashed equipment – runway, mask.

Declared help, defend hand, donned hesitation,
raided scanner machine.
Target suspicious spying.

-- Alice Lander

British plane-spotters facing three years in Indian prison
William Tell: Blindfolded Prince tries his hand at archery
Gordon Brown will be quite cross, says Andrew Rawnsley

Managed? Not One

Abuse and admit,
but blunder before
children. Computers calm

down despite earned
emotional force. Fearing
flat government, Gus games

himself high. How
it's injured, in
January, left life.

-- Nick Jarvis

I'm a full-time mum...benefits ARE my wages
Lord Mandelson defends Gordon Brown
Baffled police log six incidents of snowball fights

Imagining The Counterpart

In a survey of four consultants,
two thirds (nearly a majority!) believe
the killing of knowledge enhances business.

Is human intelligence making us stupid?
Can that intelligence be used in a different manner
for a different purpose?

As might a Canadian flag be
convertible to a red jersey,
so that no passports are required.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

3 In 4: Internet Makes Us Smarter
Beer sales stopped in Vancouver
EU 'extremely concerned' over passports used in assassination

Heart Attack Boy

Reinforced ambulance from home.
Knife operation
reduced wounding with intent.

The local community charged
after urgent repair work.
Stabbed. Stabbed. Stabbed.

House before heritage grants.
The listed exhibition space
paid out only last week.

-- Clare Torbitt

'Brother' charged after boy death
World's fattest man in heart attack scare
Lottery funding to help historic churches

Sparked Pieces That

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five is ground two in of pointed
two is flames one of by blazing

feel rolled still outside constellation after
has the brash however needle nearly pin
has the reverse hence rubber upward speculation

wear resurfaced ever ever drone to
titanium the on the of museum pierced drop
position the among the for ink unsettled tank

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Who's who in the Pakistan Taliban
Fault of the Concorde: An Icon's Day in Court
Budget hits twofold in Houston

Removed

Removed

Removed

Removed

Face / Light / Leaf

Until the face exposed them, the brain did not detect its
features. On paper, the half-face hybrids darkened: Blind
face impression, separate from the passive nameplates.

Until the light exposed them, the brain did not detect its
features. On paper, the half-light hybrids darkened: Blind
light impression, separate from the passive nameplates.

Until the leaf exposed them, the brain did not detect its
features. On paper, the half-leaf hybrids darkened: Blind
leaf impression, separate from the passive nameplates.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Croatia's break with the past
Even in blind patients, light worsens migraines
Even as electric cars are rolled out in Detroit today, U.S. will lag the world in adoption

A Notion Missed

Today is the summit against slogans.
From Venezuela to Tuvalu, supporters sprang to the fight.
Shattered windshields were blanketed

with green banners molded from living plants.
But the tiny frosted ribbons between living and signifying,
saddled with their idealized witnesses,

are tried and cut by the steady forces of craft and myth,
their frozen emitters flooded with the chaos of compromise.
Time for lunch.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Iran's opposition movement mourns cleric
Some Climate Experts Seek Alternative to U.N. Process
Say hello to winter

Fear of Fear

above-average worriers predicted fresh fears
minarets on mosques; cantons and companies
stir tension

something catastrophic how the fear of fear
wins the takeover battle
controlling leaders, workers, neighbors

chocolate giant's Swiss Alpine
braced for backlash
still no guarantees for a low-key response.

-- Cindy Underhill

Anxiety fear ‘puts above-average worriers at depression risk’
Cadbury jobs fear: going
Muslim Leaders Condemn Swiss Ban

Contrast Prize Assembled

the a the minarets on those boycotts astronomy of
the a the telescope by heavy vengeance wonders below
endangered to genuine given envy

the a the midst over mutual outlaw referendum in
the dual facing of in experimental eroding
threatened to remembered stain vistas

the Swiss nesting in of physico-mathematico nesting
higher which converse Netherlands the dearly
other which lecture lectures the also

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Europe unites to deplore Swiss ban on minarets
Global warming treaty would be major success
The Royal Society: Dilettantes to DNA via cuckoos and kites

Budget Space Pledge

Remember our November
commitment? Spacey on futures, we
fueled the sentimental economy:

“Carbon-based Earth is home
to the Thanksgiving mission.”
When our volume rituals emit euros,

kick the global benchmarks.
Even Kennedy would buy an orbital
port on signs of holiday crisis.

-- Lance Newman

US shoppers hit Black Friday sales, budgets pared
European Union carbon boosted by China, U.S. pledges
Space shuttle Atlantis returns to Earth

New Vivid Version

Pictures from the air
bring worm to life
show security details

More riff-raff
can act like botnets
and provide crucial intelligence

A second worm
has been unearthed
Hit the company phone

-- Rupert M Loydell

Spotify adds a Symbian version
Vivid WWII pictures from the air bring war to life
New iPhone worm can act like botnet say experts

U2 Victims' Claims

The 26-year-old rumour has finally come true
Bono and co have been slated
Police blamed a freak storm

Dozens of people feared lost at the bottom
rejected claims of overcrowding
The biggest band in the world need to be checked

There are even more surprises in the pipeline
Residents and business owners are being allowed
back to piece together the Pyramid stage

-- Rupert M Loydell

Flood victims allowed back home
Indonesian ferry captain rejects overcrowding claims
U2 to headline Glastonbury 2010

The Moon Hearse

All agreeing agreement: articles binding
Captured centaur, change, conference coverage
Data deposits: decided, determined, difficult, down

Fell finally finding frozen goodbye
Hearse hours hundreds impacted instead
Laden launch leaders less, missed mission

Mourners, myself, pair politically, promised process
Released, scheduled soldier street
The team today viewing water

-- Scott Rettberg

World Leaders Agree to Delay a Deal on Climate Change
Water On The Moon: LCROSS Kicks Ice!
Mourners grieve for soldiers killed at Fort Hood

Unlike A Barrier

The handwritten scale of the biggest action,
covering your building and washing your walls,
hoping to block the streets of irony,

to call or keep that hoping canyon
where a dozen whistles fall; where slow coughs chanted
in a marriage of signs and sneezes.

Meanwhile in 10,000 streets, fans waiting to be waved,
the long springs triggered from palm to hands;
people will be patient eventually.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Patience urged for Hawaii's flu vaccine
Gay rights activists rally to protest Maine vote
New Berlin wall blocks fans from celebrating freedom at U2 gig

Big H1N1 Assault

The virus is known to have mutated
Who Infected, the United States in a large outbreak
Also on the rise more serious infections and deaths

That towering, yellow-feathered, 6-year-old
comes to his senses with the
“Word on the Street,”

Love
“I realised that my decision
Could result in” America getting killed

-- Becky Schomberg

H1N1 to cause more deaths in northern winter – WHO
Sesame Street still Big Bird’s nest after 40 years
Rihanna warning over Brown attack

Greenhouse Baby Slide

Minorities pushed the panel that
Would set up a cap-and-trade system but
Panel rules blocked senators

The surrounding agents in baby's box
While she was napping
Proved time was against us

They fell with the filing figure
It dropped off those rolls into extended benefits
But it's still not definitive

-- Cody Saunders

Senate Democrats move greenhouse gas bill along without GOP
Fla. baby missing for 5 days found alive under bed
Unemployment claims slide

Chuck of Death

Baseball rapist game face
Vader was dangerous
Said the Yankees take the penalty for death

Will Norris? A Star? War was at a baseball game
Chuck who has a dangerous face held penalty
Into the star of Vader

Face Vader's power of Death, death could Be important
Awesome death bodies Norris?
Death was timeless if a game was dangerous

-- Jose Flores

The Yanks take down the Phillies in game 4
11 bodies found a rapist's horror home
Dark matter "wrecking ball" may have hit Milky Way

Amateur Obama Rules

The government’s gay residents in Tehran
        on the decision of violence:
Un-expectedly sizable in January, so the president rejected
Don’t recognize the boisterous Patchwork

"He never watched them when he was running
We don't know if the U.S. Embassy did not watch same-sex
        couples breakdown
marry in a closely fought antigovernment grant

Iranian chaos in the White House
Allowing unexpectedly high turnouts
state-by-state we don't recognize

--Sabrina Akhtar

Iranian Opposition Protesters Hijack Government Rally
Democrats downplay election losses as GOP celebrates
Maine Rejects Same-Sex Marriage

Savvy Dark Matter Horror

Long for the days
Goddess do you sacrifice?
Snagged by the Golden

Ming the Merciless,
Invisible wrecking ball
Make a swirl of newborn stars

Decomposed skull
Your dangerous threat
Has ankles shackled

-- Cheyanna Wolf

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin: a couple of savvy insiders
Dark matter "wrecking ball" may have hit Milky Way
First Victim in Cleveland House of Horrors Identified

(tracing the fringes)

where
Blue fires
trace the disappeared

where
a section
of spine erupted

along
the eastern
tide of elsewhere

-- Michael Leong

Brush Fires Threatening Homes in California
Police: Lake search finds no trace of ND students
In diverse New Jersey district, voters' spirits lifted

The Planet Cheers

The Arctic Sea Ice Saver coupon is to be distributed
in newspapers everywhere! And it will be packaged in
a whole catalogue of consumer products, including

wristwatches, electronics, even a limited-edition limo.
Without the coupon, global warming will ensure
the loss of all summertime Arctic sea ice.

Actually, the coupon probably will not make a difference.
But it's designed to draw awareness to the "brand."
What a great marketing deal!

-- Glenn R. Frantz

The Dark Side of Corporations' Cause-Marketing
As ice melts, species will die and new territorial fights emerge
Obama visits New Orleans

Which Lull Absorbs

there is a daily ocean book, and up,
engaging the homes in their earth foundation,
awaiting each other and awaiting,

hugging the scripted mess in their own pink month,
and what month would I make them make,
by generous coating more than daily currents

and recent moments yet than this charter is always,
where everywhere it's greeted more and mostly,
it's little trouble that can dare of anyone

-- Glenn R. Frantz

The Dark Side of Corporations' Cause-Marketing
Obama visits New Orleans
As ice melts, species will die and new territorial fights emerge

Thousands of people
are increasingly
conscious

of bodies &
of roads &
of buildings,

& still more
people are reaching
through the deep night.

-- Imbruglia Rushlow

From students to CEOs, Irish relief at "Yes" vote
Chance of more survivors from Indonesia quake dims
Obama links job growth to health care proposal

a close-to-final release

Polanski
will receive
a Public Woody

in
a Roman
greenhouse to celebrate

a
lifetime of
releasing seminal emissions

-- Michael Leong

Britney Spears Releases New Single '3'
Bill Targets 20 Percent Reduction in Emissions
Release Polanski, demands petition