Thursday, April 1, 2021

Numb. 1089 Mayflies, Smilin' At Me


MAYFLIES, I believe, would pity us.
If mayflies could find the time to.
Not that they can. With their lifespan,
pity is not something mayflies incline to.

If  a mayfly thought of the fusses we make, 
living our too many years,
she would in sadness her tiny head shake,
and she would shed mayfly briny tears.

She'd say it's a crime, wasting your time
on matters so unsubstantial:
music and art, politics, nonsense.
Religion. All things financial.

Juvenile mayflies mature for a year.
Adults die in a day.
“Born” with the dawn, dead at sunset,
and yet, don't forget, they convey DNA.

Mayflies, despise inefficiency.
Mayflies never do dawdle.
Mayflies, unlike us, intelligently
do just what they are born to.

Mayflies know what LIFE is about.
They remember what we do not.
They concentrate on propagating.
Mayflies tend to “Begat” a lot.


Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Numb. 1088 Lookout Or Outlook?

WE'VE GOT Covid.
We've got pollution.
Inequitable wealth
and health distribution.
A broke Constitution,
dying seas rising,
polar downsizing. 
Mass discontent
isn't surprising.

We've got anti-vaxxers,
GOP lower taxes,
unbreathable air
near everywhere,
politicians unthinkable,
water undrinkable,
and, like Titanic,
we think we're unsinkable.

We've got desertification
crumbling nations.
We've disconnected 
effect from causation.
We've got declining fertility,
less social mobility.
We are incapable 
of truth distinction,
here on the brink
of mass extinction.
The weather is running amok.
Everything's coming unstuck.

We've got sexual predators
writing letters to editors.
With jobs disappeared,
who can pay creditors?
“To be”, the verb, 
is no longer copular.
Baseball, our passtime, 
ain't all that popular.
Could this all
be somehow oracular?

The world is shot. 
How long's it got?
Rome, as they say,
wasn't kilt in a day.
But Rome dead end.
That us the trend.
Thank Phenobarbital,
we've nothing to dread, at all.

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Numb. 1087 Toward A Permanent Majority

WE CAN ACHIEVE a forever majority
restricting voting to our minority:
WHITE, ancestral NORTH-Europeans, 
perfectly STRAIGHT, unquestioning Christians,
who hold the BIBLE the ONLY authority
and owning guns the highest priority,
believers that life begins at conception,
(though they'd abort Liberals, without exception),
anti-vaxxers for lower taxes,
who hate sin in theory — if not in practice —
who think “climate change” a Liberal-Chink hoax —
good GOP moaks, our kind of folks —
who seek to accelerate OUR LORD's second coming,
who see life on Earth as down-market slumming,
who easily separate depraved from saved, 
who, given the chance, would reinstate slavery,
who are anti-Union and pro-Confederate,
who know organized labor is completely degenerate,
who think blond hair and blue eyes is what God's got,
and if you believe otherwise, they'll have you shot.

Monday, March 29, 2021

Numb. 1086 Missionary Position

The New York Times
Opinion

He’s a Famous Evangelical Preacher, but His Kids Wish He’d Pipe Down

The Rev. Rick Joyner has called on Christians to arm themselves for civil war. But his children would be on the other side.

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ALL WHO OPPOSE US are purely evil.
They realize, of course, we are right.
It's known far and wide that God's on our side,
that we are the most perfect people in sight.
We can not be safe while enemies chafe at
their God-decreed inferiority.
We have determined their termination
is our number one most important priority.
Whatever it takes to fill the bill.
We dast not be squeamish. It is God's will.

Sunday, March 28, 2021

Numb. 1085 Mob Rule

IF THE MOB took over the GOP,
that would not be dramatic.
Despite that fact that historically
the Mafia was Democratic.
One gun, one vote is Mafia Law —
the same as the NRA's is,
although Mafiosi shoot more indoors
and NRA-GOP often deplores
the fusses resulting from such behaviors.
On the other Black Hand, the GOP plan:
absorb THE MOB, combine THE KLAN.
MOB or PARTY? Which would prevail?
The danger is grave, until BOTH are in jail.

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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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