Taking what life throws at me one pitch at a time
current regime wants
to drown the public in dark
aphotic news zone
where no light sheds on their path
to enrich their shellfish selves
A dangerous game
I presume the position
See if she approves
cold night and day here
in the aphotic zone but
no flies I presume
No external tokens of self required
can't see the omen
for the Romans these sad days
a historical
drug resistant infection
gnawing on society
Medicinal health
Hawked ad nauseum over
TikTok YouTube X
no external woo
omen or token of self
required for health
unless a talisman should
turnip under a pebble
Thankful for the day
I can spend as I prefer
Basting straw turkeys
Uncanned spam leading
A dearth of distilled data
Learning pollution
Kippy Chiquita
Between the green and the black
There was yellowing
Kippy Chiquita
Wore a fruit basket headpiece
Swore that was her name
A festive Thanksgiving dance
In a flouncy yellow dress
Holiday learning
Prefer finding out about
Old family members
Reading yellowing journals
While spilling new tea gossip
plays it for swagger
not an obvious stagger
from the fright of blight
as the rainbow clock runs down
on his short timed existence
need to stagger the
fleeting peaks of joy to squelch
bombastic waveform
connection timed out
waiting for a single truth
to be forthcoming
Rainbow pot-o-gold
Home Depot home deplore decor
Painted plastic junk
Tasteless tacky faux pas fright
Gauche slapped over ketchup stains
The world according to cliff notes
Perceiving events through an A.I. lens
A.I. CliffsNotes lens
Fade perception of events
To a fuzzy blur
Though It may be believable
Ultimately achievable
Doesn't make it reasonable
Dunk in the river
Imbibe the faux purity
Wash away the guilt
Repeat as necessary
Drip dry your troubles away
Cry me a river
Imbibe the stream of sorrow
Achievable fade
If these walls could speak
I'd get a case of the creeps
Then head for the hills
We all have options
Though some choose to remain blind
To auxiliaries
No weak tea for me
Give me a hot withering
Cup of black coffee
speak your opinion
social media tea spill
with every posting
mind your own business option
flies right out of the window
I've come to the conclusion
This reality business
Ain't all it's cracked up to be
lawyers and the law
make a loophole in the yarn
find the knit to pick
rake leaves to the curb
pile them high and light them
once upon a time
bonfires between the parked cars
autumn in the big city
spin the ripping yarn
in half baked reality
around the campfire
rake the ants over the coals
making them all cry "Uncle !"
tally the win loss
columns of infinity
I will break even
breaking even in
infinite win loss columns
eventually
Takes a fair measure
Comparing personal loss
To that of others
Except never seen as fair
While only rarely to scale
by any metric
need a new criterion
just to measure up
Watch children fading
Into what was memories
Cherish then release
fading children growth
is a way to measure their
loss to adulthood
eleventh hour
on the eleventh day of
the eleventh month
open hidden doors
or slam them shut and lock them
language is the key
problem with leaders
as they lead you might end up
with lead poisoning
I'm no fashion plate
But when I put on new clothes...
Glide back in my stride
While putting cut in my strut
Like Tom Waits on a clear day
The language of lead
May get you new clothes today
Clear day dead later
Money laundering
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Suspicious pardons
Education in profits
Rob the poor. Give to the rich
One third will vote wrong
One third will vote correctly
One third won't bother
All thumbs round a tree
Mittens the woodpecker was...
A beak performer
like a woodpecker
on a computer punch card
is how some folks vote
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