Why

If you don’t bother to take the time,
To express your thoughts in rhyme,
The chances are awfully good,
You’ve not thought as much as you should.
Rhymes are fun and set the stage right,
Like lovers undressing before a fight…


Source: The New York Post

A Great Escape

Illinois is not exactly the place
You’d expect to find zebras in your face.
But there they were in all of their splendor
As if they’d come off a wild bender.
I’m glad that they did not meet any harm

When they made their “escape” from a pumpkin farm!


Source: Forbes Magazine

Awww

Poor little Donnie must be very mad

And telling everyone that Forbes is sad.

They can’t count and they don’t know what is what

And are really no better than any slut

Who always try to take advantage of him

When instead we all should simply love him…!


Source: Getty Images

When your center shifts…

Last night I experienced some cool change

As I listened to W in an exchange

Reflecting on his years as our leader

And learning that he’s an avid reader!

Perhaps time has passed and mellowed us both

But I like this guy… and I think that’s growth.


Source: The Guardian

From Panama to Pandora

Hard to imagine anyone’s surprise

That the fruit of the work of prying eyes

Revealed yet again that the entitled

Are fairly brazen and quite unbridled

When it comes to skirting all sorts of rules

And looking at us like a pack of fools.


Source: The New York Times

Disappointing move

The man was elected for centrist views

So it sure is a shame he’s taking cues

From the distant left side of the party

Where his support was not very hearty

Killing an agenda that had a chance

To be a compromise, if awkward, dance.


Source: NPR

Despicable

Alex is the very worst of the worst

He’ll do anything to put himself first.

His loathsome response to this mass killing

Was on many levels very chilling…

Now he’s been caught for his lack of respect

Of the laws he professes to protect.


Source: The Economist

Woe-man

So we continue into the abyss

Don’t even think about calling her “miss.”

“Adult human female” is widely used,

But so offensive and can be abused!

Because what about males who ID “she”…?

Hmm, how about “people who sit to pee.”


Source: The Times of London

The Sexorcist!

You don’t come across this one every day…

It seems this bishop will no longer pray

And is leaving the church for a new life

With a Satanic author as his wife

Who specializes in erotic fare

Which can be quite the combo, if you dare.


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Deaf and Dumb, too

We know that justice is meant to be blind

But probably not to be of this kind.

How hard can it be to know it’s not right

To drop the gavel in a legal fight

In which your own interests are on the line?

No, this sure does not make these judges shine.


Source: Dreamstime

Happy 25th Anniversary Sweetheart!

You know it’s left and I think that it’s right,

I always see gray, and you black and white.

Yet in our own weird way we’ve made it work,

Our love affair is much more than a quirk.

Together, we never know what’s in store…

But I’m all in for 25 years more!!!