Sunday, December 25, 2011

2011 in collision




Gravity supersymmetric'ly reigns:
That's what Large Hadron is trying to love.
Strings and branes and peppermint canes.
Is that what the M-verse is made of?

Arab protester's front page on the TIME.
Libyan rebels have raised a new flag.
Occupy's message has started to climb.
What happened to Tea Party's teabags?

Ebooks bypass the printers' ink jets.
Kindles and tablets and NOOKs, oh my!
The publishing world is hedging its bets.
The old-fashioned bookstore is starting to die.

Osama Bin Laden gets one in the eye.
Republicans give credit to Cheney and Bush.
"Obama's a weakling," Republicans cry.
"Tax cuts and shutdowns is all we will push."

Sheen and Weiner. Casey Anthony.
Jerry Sandusky? Sports fans' heads in sand.
Apes and War Horse just want to be free.
Time now to strike up the New Year's Eve band.



photo: LHC reports discovery of its first new particle, BBC News

placed in Poets United Poetry Pantry #81 and in dVerse Poets Pub Poetics—Endings & Beginnings


7 comments:

  1. Clever observations, kiddo. I love "Kindles and tablets and NOOKS, oh my!"

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  2. I'm glad the ending is optimistic (or at least musical)!

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  3. thanks for the walk back through 2011... i'm a big electronic fan but i hope that bookstores and real books never die..just for the smell of paper.. happy new year philip!

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  4. Enjoyed this, Philip... especially like that it rhymes.

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  5. nice walk through of some of the current events of the last year...gosh i hope that books dont go away...they smell so much better than a kindle...lol...happy new year!

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  6. LOL this is esp funny 0> What happened to Tea Party's teabags?

    i like the occupy one too

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  7. No fear. By this time next year the physicists will be able to explain every single tiny thing, and then we will be able to direct every single tiny thing to a good and peaceful outcome. Then again....

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