a line a day newspoem october 2005 20051001| Robbing hood steals from the poor to give to the poor; halliburton wants in 20051002| the ribbons that blossomed on bumpers during the springtime of our concern have faded 20051003| the Post reported earlier in the week that the White House had contacted the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute and similar right-wing think tanks, seeking policy proposals that could be introduced using the Katrina disaster as a pretext 20051004| flaming towers, flooded city: punishing father maps any vivid source domain onto tax relief or suspended anti-pollution laws in the opportunity zone 20051005| in today's delta tolls: 1193 dead, 3000 fired, 40,000 homeless 20051006| walk on the water or purify yourself; trickle-down economics, a rising tide lifts all yachts 20051007| this news a symphony through a cellular, bursts of pure amplitude surrounded by continuous silence 20051008| policy echoes in response pure noise in which the ear can pick out the most beautiful melodies imaginable 20051009| a new label, a larger bottle of the same depleted uranium snakeoil 20051010| revoke the posse whose sweating helmeted teenaged soldiers loaded with weaponry slump in the lifeguard chairs 20051011| while the narrative snores, another actor has crept onstage, as magicians must eventually repeat a trick 20051012| "A photo on the White House Web site shows Bush in Crawford, Texas, watching [National Hurricane Center Director Max] Mayfield give a briefing on Aug. 28, a day before [twisted homewrecker] Katrina smashed ashore with 145-mph winds." 20051013| according to this recursive metonymy, if the government is our father who art in Washington, the president is syphilis, and we are a trick baby 20051014| who was lost in the desert holding an upside-down roadmap, but am now getting treatment 20051015| in Katrina's wake, fraud and scams soar, say authorities, rumors of euthanasia at hospital are probed, evacuees struggle to find housing, a newt might run for president, Bush predicts more fighting in Iraq, to cure terrorism, outbreaks of citrus cancer, yellow dragon disease, H5N1 virus bird flu, four Amish children with polio 20051016| (meanwhile in today's Pakistan tolls, 30,000 dead, 2,000,000 homeless) 20051017| and the federal deficit overextended as any metaphor: woman cut pregnant neighbor to steal baby, police say 20051018| for example, ignorance is not really strength, but if you just repeat the word "strength" 20051019| but the accountability office said on Friday: "The prepackaged news stories are purposefully designed to be indistinguishable from news segments broadcast to the public. When the television viewing public does not know that the stories they watched on television news programs about the government were in fact prepared by the government, the stories are, in this sense, no longer purely factual. The essential fact of attribution is missing." 20051020| I am opposed to murder, rape, torture, but 20051021| I got the red state blues, breeders not readers whose newspapers are encrypted in a foreign policy language, whose life ends at birth, will someone unsubscribe me please?, framing what's unsaid: 20051022| "As of Oct. 20, the Second Amendment is probably in the best shape in this country that it's been in decades." 20051023| if we force democracy on them, they're going to want overtime, but 20051024| "That is what justice is, to give without question to the miserables, the victims of life, ignoring merits in causes." 20051025| the president as conductor, viola players gaze up piteously awaiting deportation 20051026| "What we have done is taken this little ball of quicksilver and hit it with a hammer." 20051027| in today's Iraq tolls: one U.S. military casualty for every year since the birth of Christ, but Iraqi civilian casualties move on to the year 30,000 20051028| Ben Franklinstein's monster, patreasonism 20051029| the cost of living razes the minimum wage, the new Supreme Court raises the minimum rage while my people stir a stew of bad news over the flames of burning credit cards 20051030| "What nurturing parents want to create are competent individuals who know how to choose for themselves and who are not hide-bound to the demands of others. This is an opposing model of freedom--under the strict father, freedom is more like what Kant reduced it to, 'you are free to do your duty.'" 20051031| But who forged the Nigerian uranium yellowcake documents? And who mailed anthrax? And where's Osama?