Showing posts with label satire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label satire. Show all posts

Thursday, October 19, 2017

TheRump of the joke


Turn of the year, Russia's gift
For America a political facelift
At the now far Righter House, grown stiff
Into a much Whiter House, it was as if-
someone turned on the spigot
unto a flow of infamous bigots.

Out - poured Breitbart and Bannon
Sessions and unknowns for secession
And the man from Kansas, for suppression
Ensure a snow-white ballot, and guns-
neither anti-black, nor Latino, he notes
unless they’d use the right to vote.

One woman said: white supremacist
Was like calling Smog a big mist

There’s no doubt, came from the horse’s mouth
And spread across the West and South
Spoken aloud and in code far and near
Wherever there be a lendable ear—
But then someone said no- he’s is not
No white supremacist, not a jot!

We are left, humbled and blind to stumble
Like the titan in Gaza so mistaken we mumbled
We had no idea- if he is not a white supremacist then
He must be wearing a deception, a brokered skin…

It is so shocking, the entire world taken suddenly aback--
For If not a white supremacist- then he must be Black!

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

the sparrow and the fishes



There was celebration, in usually quiet congregation
hand-clapping thundered, and rose to rafters.
Bits and chips of leaded paint fell,
like confetti, or moments of immense sincerity,
and Walmart said Amen!

The God of Lesser Corporations,
HIS children reborn, artificial bodies filled-
Transfiguration, spirit to cash-mere flesh,
with life and blood more real than menstruation.

In gloried Halls like Valhalla
rituals profound as Jehovah's, witness to
an awakening, the freedom to be
life and breath entities, by a Godly Court
a decree of  life from ink and paper.

The Spirit of God
moved upon the face of  articles of incorporation
let there be life...

and Walmart said Amen!

Wither the woman, vessel of saints and saviours
your choice to live in an era of manly–men.
Virtue can corrupt the Judges, when measured
by faith in penises. Cast wide the net
and capture every offending fish
for they have thoughts of freedom
choice a voice which interferes
 with the dearer freedom,
the favorite of the law, and only God saw
the sparrows and the fishes

 For the sparrow wanteth not and
 like the fish, thrive in floods of love,
thrash and run in tides of caring,
gathering scraps and pieces of life
 into loving existence.

They boldly hold... 
“there shall be no more waterless sky nor airless water”!
The manly-men scoff, for in sound petition
hallelujahs rise among them, called for Profits
They bare knives and forks for feast and care not
for drought or things beneath the waters.
They know, choice is on the wing of the sparrow
and in the wish of the multiplied fish,

and Walmart said Amen!



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The U.S Supreme Court has ruled (Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby) that for-profit corporations can have religious beliefs; and  which beliefs can excuse them from obeying the laws that apply to them.  While the ruling purports to limit itself to reproductive rights, it does not. This ruling has changed the law into a place where wealth and privilege now have powers to dictate a selective assortment of behaviour controls and morals. In effect it extends and ratifies private efforts to control American citizens.