Popular Poems

These poems are the most-often viewed, according to my web statistics. I think it has more to do with how easy they are to find through Google than with how much people like them. Each poem has a link to the poem's standalone page, where there is often more information.

Double, double, cosmic bubble
By the Law of Edwin Hubble.
February 2001
Itsy, Bitsy, Tiny and Few,
We have a nuclear weapon or two.
Itsy, Bitsy, Tiny and Free,
If you are cowed you'll listen to me.

What do you get when you conquer the Earth?
Way too much cash and a sense of self-worth.
How do you act when you're such a fat cat?
Who do you think's at fault for that?
Always the United States.

Itsy, Bitsy, Tiny and Bomb,
Give us the cash and you can stay calm.
You will starve in poverty too
Just like Itsy, Bitsy, Teeny, Tiny and Few.
December 2003
Ours is not to reason why.
No one does that any more.
Ours is but to bomb from high
Till everybody else is poor.
October 2004
When we first met I saw a blinding flash.
The hot wind made me glad to be alive.
I hardly felt old hopes and houses tumbling in the crash.
I'll always love U-235.

You don't care that I am going bald.
When I collapse you stay till I revive.
You hold me close while everybody else remains appalled.
I'll always love U-235.
March 2005
don't be a slave
in labor's maw
when you can work
for Tatmadaw
Myanmar Shave
December 2006