Thursday, February 18, 2021

Numb. 1058 Natural Ordure

Nature knows nothing of good or evil.
Never has done — from time primeval.
Nature cares only about propagation.
NOT economics or this or that nation.
Nature would never make any decision
regarding the falsity of a religion.
Nature, the topic of numerous theses,
gives not a feces for any species.

Nature knows not if we despair.
If we exist, SHE does not care.

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Numb. 1057 Boots On 'tother Footes

Texans, in years past, would often remark,
“Drive eighty and let Yankees freeze in the dark.”
It IS schadenfreude, but still it's a hoot
watching them schuss in wet snakeskin boots
in Texas, where they are home on the range,
in Texas, where they deny climate change,
in Texas, where now oil oligarchs —
in Texas! — are freezing, alone in the dark.

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Numb. 1056 Covid The Vote

It isn't as if Biden truly beat Donald. 
It was this “China-made” pestilence,
despite his “big brain” and his “best words”.
Plus “rampant fraud” and Pence's incompetence.
Donald tried bluffing the virus away,
saying, “it'll be gone fairly soon —
come summer, or fall, or, you'll see, next spring,
it'll skedaddle town by high noon.”
As deaths shot up, his numbers dropped.
Covid would not treat him fair.
He then pretended to get it himself.
It didn't even muss up his “hair”.

Yup, it was Covid whut shot him his wad.
So, mebbe — jes mebbe — there is a god?

Monday, February 15, 2021

Numb. 1055 If We Did It: a concession from vanillas

We knew all along there was a conspiracy.
That's what all the signs showed us.
The Bible, Glenn Beck, Rush. Friggin' FOX!
All of our everyday best sources told us.
Plots afoot for destroying our nation,
from forces  shall we say?  international”.
People like Gates, the Rothschilds. AND SOROS!
These things are facts. We ARE NOT irrational.
What Forrest said was not jest or boast,
you gotta get there first with the most.
You say our FACTS are, in fact, erroneous?
You shake your head, get all sanctimonious?
There is a conspiracy! END OF DISCUSSION!
It is here. It is real. It is now. It is us'n.

Sunday, February 14, 2021

Numb. 1054 Another GOP Manifesto

What is the point of democracy? Really!
Why should the hoi-polloi vote?
What business have they? I mean ideally 
They're only liable to rock our boat.

They must leave things to us. We are the betters.
The wealthy. The well-born. The able.
They must remain content in their fetters.
It's not for them to sit at high table.

In power, they'd claim what we've acquired
is not, inherently, ours.
They'd treat us indignantly. They'd call us liars.
Even demand we be placed behind bars.

Socially, we accept Darwin's wisdom.
Naturally! We're the cream of the crop.
Evolution gives rise to this fitness system.
We'll not stand athwart it, bellowing STOP!

We are the heirs of Abraham Lincoln,
but his ideals from us have been leached
as over time we've changed our thinking.
We must disinter him and have him impeached.

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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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