Thursday, September 24, 2020

Numb. 952 Martyr Dumb (or What You Will)

Are you ready to die for your cause?
Hallelujah! You are a martyr.
Happy to give up what little is yours?
Although it would (maybe) be smarter
to barter with something other than
your pitifully insignificant span?
Dying for causes plays into the hands
of all of those willing
to support theirs by killing.

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Numb. 951 Creation Silence (or Doing GOD's Work)

GOD slaved away for five long days
creating THE WORLD and its wonders.
Why on Day Six did HE add to this mix
humans, HIS blunder of blunders?
Could it be HE got bored playing at LORD
with no one to shout Hallelujah?
Did HE repent having invented
this dystopian lollapalooza?
Did HIS efforts leave HIM annoyed?
Did HE consider it better destroyed?
Deciding destruction not worth the fuss,
did HE, instead, then create us?

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Numb. 950 Fulfilling Our Destiny (or Pollution, Here We Come)

You want the TRUTH about pollution?
We will not solve it. Not ever.
Our brightest -- our business and criminal classes --
are insufficiently clever
to find a way to profit from virtue
when it is cheaper to do things that hurt you.

Proposed "solutions"? Expensive and drastic.
Unless we swiftly evolve to can eat plastic
and also to thrive on bad water and air,
the simple fact is we haven't a prayer
of surviving even one or two centuries.
Our species is a deadly disease.
For what it is worth, we're destroying the Earth.

However, in turning ourselves into compost,
we may, in fact, be saving the Cosmos.
Or leaving it to some little green men
to bring the damned thing to an end.
Which, we trust, if they're "smart" like us
they will accomplish with minimal fuss.

Monday, September 21, 2020

Numb. 949 Quæ In Ea Ventura

Anything less that a total Dem blow-out
will be a pyrrhic defeat.
Dems will not get an inkling of victory
and GOP mobs will dance in the street,
firing assault rifles at random 
Biden supporters they happen to meet.

Unless the Biden total vote margin
is in excess of twenty percent
and he wins, at least, thirty states
there is no way in hell to prevent
Trump and the GOP thugs hanging on,
until their very last bullet is gone.

Okay, go ahead, tell me I'm balmy,
but THEY have more guns than any Army.
(Except, if you please, perhaps, the Chinese.)
I say no way Trump ever goes,
so keep your mask over your nose.

Sunday, September 20, 2020

Numb. 948 Trump, McConnell, Ginsburg, and Qanon

Trump, McConnell et al. v. The Memory Of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Arthur Mount
"Winning is the ONLY thing,"
according to Vincent Lombardi.
Virtue and honor? You ding-a-ling,
we are talking po-lit-i-cal par-ty-ing
where, as in love and football and war,
crushing the other is what we're here for.

Corrupt like Trump or shady like Brady
you must seize the moment and not be afraid
of how it looks or what people say.
Just cook the books and have it your way.


The Protocols Of The Elders Of Whatever (A Revelation)

We shall name hurricanes, saying Donald's to blame
because he does not accept "climate change".
We shall fake diseases to go with these breezes
to panic all people when anyone sneezes.
We shall criticize his best friends, Putin and Kim,
only because it annoys him.
We shall subscribe to WeChat and TikTok
(whatever those are), so as to mock him,
this no bell prys-man with his divine plan
to make the U.S. a True Holy Land
as the Founders intended
until we intervened. PLAN UPENDED,
displaced by our evil, Satanic cabal
pretending the nation's a free-for-all:
multi-this, multi-that, multi-we-made-it-up
because, as you know, we are corrupt,
because we hate everything pure
and, because for reasons not at all obscure, 
we, being horse flies, adore manure.

Wait! THAT is TRUE.
THAT can NOT be denied.
And it must mean we're on HIS side.

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When young I voted Republican. Democrats? Union goons and Ku Klux Klan. Camelot Kennedy? Not my cup of tea. (Frankly, I thought it a scam. I was, by default, a Goldwater man.) Through Johnson and Nixon I lacked conviction. For Ford and Carter I couldn't bother. Then came Ronnie. The smarmy carny, hominy nominee. Time to change party! Bush, Clinton, Bush led to Obama which led us twice to our present trauma. (Ignoring here Joe Biden's years, which Trump, the disgrace, will erase.) Labor's diminished. Perhaps even finished. The Klan is a GOP brand. Anger predominates. A felonious reprobate holds country's fate in grabby hands. Still NOT a Democrat, although I vote like that. An increasingly frail, flailing old man. I proudly am an anti-Republican.

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