Numb. 957 Numb And Number

The problem with people who have all the answers

is that they don't even know all the questions.

The answer's not YHWH or Quetzalcoatl

nor Mao's, nor Marx's, nor Freud's professions

of universal, complete comprehension

concerning how the world works.

They think they're be right, but they are not

because, like everyone else, they are jerks

who gaze in amazement at their own navel

and think IT is all about them. Well fed house cats

who can not catch dead rats and never will understand Zen,

which, despite what you thought, is not what the Buddha taught.

A bunch of dolts devoted to cults

who fancy themselves mature adults.

Just look about, observe the results.

Numb. 956 Wait A Minim Mr. Posed Man

I see no reason for optimism.

Times are bad and are fast getting worse.

The basic fact of all existence

is that existence is cursed.

From single-celled critters, all birds and bees

to us top-of-the-heap, grad-school chimpanzees

strutting and fretting, getting and spending,

pursuing nutrition and, if there's time, knowledge.

The first is essential, the second's a waste,

especially what they taught you in college

where, on the whole, you were misinformed

about the happenstance that you were born.

Yet you persist and insist your existence

means more than that of pond scum.

You follow the syllabus from day after day

hoping tomorrow Godot may come.

Replacing reality with what you wish

can be best described as Micawberish.

Numb. 955 GOP Declaration Of Insincerity

We believe in minority rights.

We are, as you know, a minority.

Old white men given to thinking

we are far smarter than any majority.

We believe all men are equal.

We believe we're the equal-est.

We believe if we're not in control,

we must needs protest that we're oppressed.

We believe God decreed our permanent right

to exclusively govern all nations.

We believe OTHERS are best

kept in their lower, subservient stations.

We believe the country was founded

entirely on what's in the Bible.

We believe "Enlightenment" babble 

an evil, pernicious, Satanic libel.

We believe the Bible reliable.

THE source of all LAW and KNOWLEDGE.

We believe mistakes U.S. voters make

should be erased by Electoral College.

We believe -- nay, this we are sure of,

you must excuse if we gloat --

nowhere in Scripture does it ever say

anything like "one man, one vote".

Numb. 954 The Situation Post Corona-tion

Colbert and Fallon and Kimmel arrested.

Corden, of course, is deported.

Bundled together with John Oliver,

sent back to Boris, who'll get them "sorted".

Terrorist "comics" with Muslim names

dispatched post-haste to Guantanamo.

Samantha Bee, the Canadian dame,

put on a plane to Toronto.

O’Brien and Stewart placed under surveillance,

Seth Meyers confined to the attic.

Trevor Noah required to go

speedily back to South Africa.

SNL players -- past, present, almost?

Too many handle … that’s problematic.

The Times and the Post gifted to Murdoch

for services to the crown rendered.

All other print and media outlets 

(save FOX and the Journal)

forever suspended.

The Democrat Party henceforth is banned

for activities un-Trumperican.

If Melanie ever again swats his hand,

she’ll be declared unAmerican.

Blessings descend upon the nation,

when we accept God's son's coronation.

Numb. 953 Scalia By The Day (or Once In Love With Amy)

Finally!

WE are impeaching Earl Warren.

And not a moment too soon.

Packing the courts with TRUE believers …

for us Republicans -- shooting the moon.

Now we'll be able to freely discriminate

while despoiling land, air, and water.

Except for school teams, we will re-segregate

to forestall Temptations accosting our daughters.

Our Constitution does not evolve.

Evolution is unconstitutional.

The words are the words, as Antonin said.

In brief -- and in fact -- that document's dead.