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 Guardian

And THIS Little Piggy…

Most eyes and concern are directed South

Political bait in the fish’s mouth.

Our porous border lets illegals in!

All those piggy moochers, it’s just a sin…

But wait! What’s this? A new danger up North?!

DC is asleep as pigs go back and forth…


Source: The Washington Post

Fine According to Whom?

Perspective can be quite the funny thing!

I mean, it’s not that I feel I must cling

To old fashioned ways of crafting a trade

But I do wonder if poetry’s made

By software and bots with no cognition

Can it address the human condition?


Source: The Atlantic

Patronizing for Profit

Had it not been before it is now clear

That the media we really should fear

Isn’t the nonsense we find on Twitter

Where anyone’s “news” is tossed like litter

But outlets that have won their viewers’ trust

Then feed them lies for their own greedy lust.


Source: NPR

How do they sleep?

Liberals are annoying, that can be true

So I often get the Fox News team’s view.

But sorry to say that this is pure shit…

Pure greed, pure nonsense, which they now admit.

Wrap it all up in free speech and the flag

This immoral crew makes me want to gag.


Source: The BBC

Things are good!

We humans are an interesting breed

And throughout our history have had the need

To predict a future of fear and woe

Then invent answers that don’t make it so.

These kids believed that our lives would be bleak

But instead we’ve been on a winning streak.


Source: The New York Times

Rest in peace, Raquel

I remember when she first caught my eye

In Life Magazine, I thought I would die…

She was already in her late thirties

I was so young, but thought about flirties.

Athletic and sexy and with such grace

I hope she’s happy in her resting place…


Source: The Bulwark

Too little too late

In 2015 she took a hard line

And made it seem as if she had a spine.

“Never Trump” was her motto, head held high!

Until, that is, she let her dignity die.

After Trump won she slithered to his side

So no, Nikki, you do not abide…


Source: The New York Post

Looks like it worked!

“Whatever it takes!” is so often heard

But is rarely done if it seems absurd…

So now it looks like Lululemon red

Is certain to do an NFL spread!

Whatever Mahomes is doing just works.

And who knows, perhaps there are other perks.


Source: The New York Times

Independence Day?!

Yup, this is starting to get pretty weird

As a fourth flying object has appeared.

We took it out fast but still do not know

Just what it is and how big of a blow

It represents to our security

But we’re proceeding with maturity.


Source: The Washington Post

Spine of jelly

His inclination seems to be on track

Banning guns reduces risk of attack.

So of course he’d rather that they are banned…

It just can’t look like it was his command!

And that right there is where deep problems start –

Lusting for power, forsaking the heart.