Numb. 942 The Platinum Rule

It is offensive to call Inuit “Esquimaux”

far more so than Englishmen “Limies”.

You must never call a Frenchman a “Frog”,

or refer to a Jew as a “Hymie”.

Respect everyone. What you call, how you treat them.

Until, that is, you are sure you can beat them.

Numb. 941 A Mother's Lament

Is civilisation quite over?

Are we at the end of the road?

We are, we know, God’s chosen nation.

Why do we follow this farting toad?

Once we were feared and revered

by enemies, friends, and our neighbours.

Now they shake their heads and say, “Weird!”

Is that all there is after all of our labours?

Even so, we prefer not to make much ado.

We are not, after all, Bloody Yanks.

Boris is not quite so bad as Trump is.

For this minor blessing, we must give thanks.

Numb. 940 A View From The Boardroom

God gave us workers for us to use them.

That is their only role.

They exist solely for us to abuse them.

If not for us, they'd be on the dole.

They are lazy and shiftless and in addition 

too many of them like to drink.

Not, mind, the good stuff like we do.

On what we pay them? I do not think so!

Sadly, somehow, while we were engaged otherwise

the Constitution got changed,

allowing these unworthies to vote,

even though they've no skin in the game.

WRONG! On the facts.

WRONG! On morality.

WRONG! On the founders' intention.

Look at the books, they were all oligarchs.

White Christian men. Did I mention?

But what's done is done and cannot be undone,

according to Lady Macbeth.

And though it may be pretty to contemplate

we could not afford them all dying from meth.

Yes, there's a problem, but we can surmount it.

Let them vote, we say. We don't have to count it.

Numb. 939 Junk Food For Thought

Do right-wingers eat Pringles

'cuz Pringles don't mingle,

unlike chips, let's say, made by Wise

which vary in color and size.

 

Does the left-wing find Pringels authentical

'cuz every last chip is completely identical,

ground down, reformed, all homo-geneous,

the next one always the same as the previous?

Numb. 938 False Gods Before Thee (or Getting Real)

It is easy to fathom why Christians and Jews

see Donald J. Trump as a god.

He, also, demands worship, love,

and total fealty on penalty of

being expelled, banished forever,

cast out from his holy midst,

forbidden forever ever to praise him,

earning a place on his do-not-call list.

There is, however, one way they differ.

God is a fiction while Donald exists.