Beware. Aliens

are spreading Covid-19

through Louie’s face mask.

~

Gotta call Bullshit!

Everybody knows the truth.

He’s dreaming sex with demons.

Say any damned thing!

Doesn’t matter how crazy;

you’ll be on the evening news!

~

You mean something like

“I got the virus from my

face mask” or “Drink bleach”?

There’s not a bar low

enough that he can’t find a

way to crawl under.

~

He is the hugest,

greatest, and most fantastic,

expert at liars limbo.

Inexplicably,

the second amendment crowd

is silent about Portland…

~

Explicably, it’s

simply one of politic’s

unspoken non-mysteries.

To be perfectly

imperfect might take years, but

it could be worth trying for.

~

Imperfect Mondos

seem to be our stock in trade.

We’ve got them down pitch perfect!

The price of delay

always falls hard on the poor,

not the procrastinators.

~

While they take a break

the poor might be broken, but

they don’t even care.

The Lincoln Project

 reads the signs, “Lane ends. Merge Left”

and thus avoid collisions.

~

Some believe road signs

are signs of socialism

and, therefore, pay them no mind.

Ben Franklin told us

that founders may be great but

scions trend toward tyranny.

~

He also said, “He

who falls in love with himself

will have no rivals.”

“Follow the money.”,

is sage, time tested, advice

for investigating crimes.

~

But it is advice

not followed by many in

charge who have money to lose.

Since he flunks all tests

for compassion, they tested

him for cagey cognition.

~

Everybody is

peerlessly superlative

by some objective measure.

Labor in the sun

offers hot object lessons

on the benefits of school.

~

Being schooled by the

sun is one form of learning

that leads to other choices.

When we disagree

may we find a way to do

it respectfully.

~

If we can’t begin

with courteous dissension,

our common ground will be a grave.

How often must we

lower our expectations;

draw another line in sand?

~

The lines have been drawn

and we need to get in them

and cast our decisive votes.

It turns out talk is

not cheap. Without listening

it can cost a lot.

~

As best I can tell,

based on how much they chatter,

some folks get paid by the word.

Sometimes, what we want

is not in our best interest;

other times, it’s what we need.

~

Often only time

will reveal if that wanting

helped or hindered us.

How can the grandson

of immigrants turn against

those who seek a better life?

~

Because he believes

it takes a special person

to dream the ‘Merican dream

Our ability

to govern our response is

our responsibility.

~

If one doesn’t have

that ability how can

one govern at all?

So many points of

contention, so many points

of view – what would wise folks do?

~

Remember this truth:

Like anuses, we got ’em;

everybody else’s stink!

Are we just chasing

unicorns and looking for

rainbows? How do we find hope?

~

Unicorns are lies,

rainbow’s got no pot of gold,

and hope? Hell! That’s for snowflakes!

If, as Chomsky says,

this is a one-party state,

can we really make a choice?

~

The Business Party

has no clothes and progressives

are pointing that out.

Why not find one small

thing we can do each day to

make things better and do it?

~

“Facta non Verba”

is more than an ideal;

it’s the only road to change.

Wow! These old grey men

are those at the highest risk.

The masked? All under Sixty!

~

No grey area

exists when it comes to risk

whether you’re eight or eighty.

Why can’t July just

pretend to be April like

February did?

~

Sometimes it feels like

the hundred and twenty ninth

of March is about to dawn.

Hoping for the best

is a meager substitute

for taking all precautions.

~

For best results, mix

both ingredients well – hope

and taking all precautions.

The time may yet come

when we will celebrate our

interdependence.

~

Until that day comes,

some people will continue

to tell the whole world, “Screw You!”

Perhaps it’s high time

to declare independence

from these days of baldfaced lies.

~

But it’s those lies that

make America great or

so those hat-wearers believe.

Would that hate could be

removed as easily as

those monumental statues.

~

Some stains will persist

no matter how much scrubbing

or street cleaning we can do.

His walled in heart has

imprisoned his mind; therefore,

we must march and vote.

~

Don’t we all reside

safely inside these prisons

that we construct for ourselves?

From her lofty perch,

she surveys all her domain

with casual indifference.

~

Although secretly

she’s quite content, she just can’t

let those minions know.