Category Archives: Greed



IRS Tankas

Sometimes instruments,
Too heavy, create havoc!
Our Revenue Code
Cracks its own spine, desolates, Continue reading →

Posted in Greed, Taxes

Love

Often, down at the paddle tennis court,
We survey the morning’s display. Today,
On court four, two girls, newcomers, cavort
Clumsily, but so scantily arrayed, Continue reading →

Posted in Bullshit, Greed, Lust

Health Care

Kaleidoscope health care is funny,
And millions that buy it are dummies—
Diseased and dejected,
Their claims are rejected, Continue reading →

Posted in Greed

USPS

I imagined (for a week) only mail—
Incoming—would connect me to the world.
I’d shun the Press, TV, evade assails
Of blogosphere—its ceaseless, morbid, hurled Continue reading →

Posted in Bullshit, Greed

The End of the World

“Some say [a poet mused] the world would end
In fire; / Some say in ice.” Nice metaphors
For unconstrained desire, chill hate. Abhor
The infidel, lust for paradise! Wend Continue reading →

Posted in Greed

Haiku: Economic Politics

Grave business, blue-black!
Cut slack, print money, thrust back—
Way to skin a cat!

Rod Blagojevich
Continue reading →

Posted in Greed, Politics, Several Short Poems