A fjord of feces on the Ford
Heralds frowardness of this Gerald,
A spear of frowning esprit flung from the sea .

* Inspired by NPR news report : “ Major plumbing headache haunts $13 billion U.S. carrier off the coast of Venezuela . ” January 17, 2026 5:00 AM ET . By Steve Walsh

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In honor
Of the divine,
The poetic line

Finds harbor
By sum device
Of aesthetic twine

That hogties
Nous with design :
Sounds atavic time .

Din hovers,
Fills the divide,
Rounds pathetic rhyme .

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To wit : the earth is polar planated
With the equator inflated, a bit .

No turtles that paddle distantly down;
No planets rattle around terra lown.
No dome with windows flung open to rain;
No storm god in blue scopes an icebound plain.

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Rocks are a library of history .
Microfossils in fissures,
Bubbles of bacteria :
Protozoans that came
Before the Cambrian .
Eukaryotic hammer of the gods
Cracking the carbon floodgate,
But in the record :
Death is no wider than a knife’s edge .

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The wrong thinker tinkers,
Wheel out of round . Twisting spokes
To straddle fences, rattling
With spinning plates downtown .

A tired juggler .

A spurting performance
Of ergs out of sync :
Misspoken symbols clash .

Back and forth futility
Crashes to the ground:
The stage indifferent .

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