February ends
on a sunny note as far
as the weather is concerned.
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This sunny weather
and our grey uncertainty
stand in stark contrast.
February ends
on a sunny note as far
as the weather is concerned.
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This sunny weather
and our grey uncertainty
stand in stark contrast.
Sometimes a delay
is all it takes to derail
the public’s health and safety.
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It seems their interest
is not in health and safety,
but in showing their power.
In this currently
cold national climate, we
welcome sun’s display of warmth.
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The Sun’s or any
hint, or semblance, of warmth
would cheer this desolation.
Will our Nation’s soul
survive stuffing their coffers
full of House made Soylent Green?
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Greed will kill the souls
of coffer stuffers, but not
the souls of true patriots.
Just when you begin
to think reason might prevail,
His Majesty speaks.
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And reminds us all
that, by gift, from his good friends,
the emperor has new clothes.
To the witless clown
who adorned my door handle
with that chewing gum, you suck.
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Wonder what’s eating
that clown that he’d resort to
passing on his chew to you?
I may be old, but
I can see well enough to
recognize bullshit.
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This bullshit diet
means to desensitize us
to the horseshit yet to come.
Always something new
toxic and mean~spirited
to keep them off their balance.
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An old trick used by
power hungry tyrants to
distract and control.
The cats and I watch
the snow fall, content to be warm
and sitting inside.
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And I go trudging
through the snowy woods chasing
a small dog bounding for birds.
Are some so hungry
for change they will consume
all this patent medicine?
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Popping a pill for
an effortless fix always
has a huge appeal.
The quiet work of
introspection is not work
valued by those with loud mouths.
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No one can be seen
to be working hard when all
the labor is internal.
Where has justice gone
when police assume a crime
driving by at fifty-nine?
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Assumption became
fact to a mind resolved to
find his criminal quota.
I can’t say we danced
in the rain, but I can say
we hopped all about.
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More likely swimming
through the hotel parking lot
is the order of the day.
Most admonishments
apply to admonishers
as well as the admonished.
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That old rebuttal
we learned as kids still remains
true: “It takes one to know one.”.
Let’s demand those we
elected to open their
closed hearts this Valentine’s Day.
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Perhaps Cupid’s bow
will strike home unerringly,
opening hearts by arrow?
Is being alarmed
same as being alarmist?
These days is there a difference?
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An alarming fact
is, alarmist or not, we
hear those alarm bells ringing.
Yesterday we got
a three-in-one package from
Mother Nature: rain, sleet, snow.
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Weather’s trifecta
came in at 3 to 1 odds
and left us an even mess.
How can one believe
assertions of a salesman
when he’s got skin in the game?
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Folks don’t try to sell
something unless they somehow
benefit from doing so.
Inappropriate
appropriation? Knox tells
me it’s humanity’s norm.
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Societal norms,
perpetually in flux,
sometimes swing toward larceny.
This retired life
has me leaping tree to tree
like some adolescent squirrel.
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Sounds like you leaped
into a nutty world, but
still can’t find the time to eat.
Cold and rainy days
such as this invite us to
settle in with a good book.
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So, of course, I ‘rose
many hours before dawn
to cook a breakfast fundraiser.
This shotgun spraying
orders ever crazier;
hoping he can get some through.
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His half-cocked approach
to governing matches his
lack of social skills.
I opened the door
for Knox. He stepped forward, but
turned back when he saw the rain.
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That pre-dawn thunder
was Beggorah’s 411;
he burrowed under blankets.
Speaking of nature,
there are those who still believe
Man is, somehow, its master?
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Some folks will ignore
all facts and experience
and insist they are in charge.
He can’t speak softly
and the big stick he carries
always trips him up.
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Like all big dumb dogs,
he thinks he knows what he wants
even if it will kill him.
How did inclusion,
and the fellowship implied,
become such a dirty word?
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When diversity
was made to mean “alien”
and, thus, something to be feared.
Nature has always
favored diversity, but
the unwise would outlaw it.
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Unwise humans don’t
recognize that they too are
a part of nature.
How can all succeed
when so many are restrained
before they begin?
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The ones who don’t think
to even ask that question
contribute to the problem.