Numb. 1032 Next?

Regarding the recent unpleasantry that unfolded down in DC,

the violent, rebellious revelry, egged on and condoned by the late GOP:

whatever wisdom was in our system existed smack dab in the middle. 

Perhaps overrated, it has dissipated with nobody able to give the least little.

When you can't abide “the other side”, when all your red lines have been crossed,

in that situation there's no mitigation. GAME OVER! TILT! FINIS! All's lost.

While I would not deny our curious run was awfully good fun (at least for some) ,

current events hint we'd best fold our tents before the fork comes and we're told we're done.

Numb. 1031 January 13, 2021

Sometimes you get one of those days

where there is really no news.

No meeting committees. No means and ways.

No one expressing discordant views.

A day where everyone's resting in peace.

A day of contentment, absent all grief.

A day where nary a mad woman's killed.

A day of kind feelings and hopes fulfilled.

A day of complete contagious harmony.

A day you don't wish for a lobotomy.

A day made for having cookies and milk.

A day where torn cotton feels smooth as silk.

A day where you realize all men are friends.

A day where means outweigh the ends.

A glorious day. A day to enthuse.

A day you'd repeat if you could so choose.

A great, perfect day where nothing can faze.

The last twenty-four was NOT one of those days.

Numb. 1030 Donald Explains

What I did last Wednesday was perfect.

What I said last Wednesday was fine.

All I requested was somebody find

that the election was mine.

Many good people — the best people — say

I won in a sacred landslide,

that crooked Dem trickery robbed me of victory.

Sleepy Joe Biden? He's certified?

All I need is eight million votes.

(Why can't we count North Korea?

Dear pen pal Kim, wrote that to him,

my victory would be a sweet panacea.)

Mike Pence, it turned out, is a weasel,

a bastardly, backstabbing, traitor.

If he got sick I would be quick

to switch off his ventilator.

He accepted electors who voted against me!

A totally illegal HOAX.

I know Pence is dense, but he should have sensed

the hullabaloo that that would provoke

even if I had never said anything —

though what I said was, as I said, perfect —

American patriots, fathers and matriarchs,

were correct to object their votes disrespected.

The Boston Tea Party? Was that a “riot”?

The defensive stand of the Klan?

Proud people pushed, they're not gonna buy it.

Whatever happened was out of my hands.

NOT, let me say, that I espouse violence.

(I don't “espouse” anything long.)

Just let me stay for four more years?

You know I won. Let bygones be bygones?

All of these messes. (NOT of my making.)

I'm the only one who can fix 'em.

Illegal aliens. Covid. Climatized lies.

They land on my desk, I'm tough like Nixon.

24/7/365, I am a man for all hours.

(Can somebody, please, restore my Twitter.

My prickling thumbs miss their superpowers.)

FOX Business says Deutsche Bank just ditched me.

PGA ditto my Bedminster course.

It's sooo unfair. But I won't despair.

I'll rewrite the pre-nup and file for divorce.

Numb. 1029 Perspective

When we close the book on two-oh-two-one,

when the whole year is over and done,

we will remember who lost, who won.

NOT, I'd insist, Covid or politics

or anything equally trivial

that pales in importance next to NFL football,

which, on the whole, is more convivial

than uneasy voting or “Chinese” diseases.

Who cares who's elected, who dies, who sneezes?

We prefer tales of blitzes and sacks,

details of travails of millionaire quarterbacks.

What matter the cries of “Bring out your dead”

when we can watch guys sucker punched in the head?

Let crazies take over the Congress, the Capitol,

no NFL fan will give a rap at all.

However uneasy lie heads wearing crowns,

what's really important is making first downs.

Numb. 1028 Donald Unrepetant

My friend John Gotti was treated unfairly,

as was Rudy's Goomba, Mussolini.

So many people hate strong manly, men

which we who are find extremely 

distressing and somewhat depressing,

strength being what we're about.

Once I have made us again a great nation,

they can be shot and taken out.