Intestinal Fortitude? (Gutsy Limerick)

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Land-Lord Trump fancies himself Heaven sent
Runs His abdominal-wide apartment
That’s where His butt kissers all dwell
(Those who can stomach His smell)
They bankrupt their souls, whilst He collects the rent

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“intestinal fortitude ~ noun. (formal or humorous) the courage and determination necessary to do something difficult or unpleasant (used when you want to avoid using the word guts) He did not have the intestinal fortitude to implement the changes. It’s rare to find a politician with the intestinal fortitude to take a controversial stance.” – – – Citation: 16 May 2024 Google Search

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Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
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Deja Vu? CogDecline? InDolence?

“What’s the oldest things you’re wearing today?”

Daily writing prompt…

At 3:24 pm on May 19, 2023, I posted my very first ever response to a Daily Prompt, which, no huge surprise, is identical to my response to “today’s” verbatim Daily Prompt, the May 16, 2024 edition. Beyond the posting of this ReBlog, I decided to go into gumshoe mode; where / when I discovered (via my perusal of the Prompt’s “coming attractions”), that I’ve already responded to the next nine days’ offerings, too! All of which begs my “Wassup WP?” reaction and spurs my following speculative poetry…

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• Are the WordPress heads’ heads growing hazy?
• Or going utterly daft; bat crap crazy?
• Like TV’s shows every summer
• “Today’s” prompt is rerun bummer
• For them to ply that ploy seems rather lazy!

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Within our vast world, an odd, bipolar mix of both buoyant and burdensome moods / matters (and damned near everything betwixt and between), there should be zero shortage of timely topics to prompt us; thereby…

• Rerunning the Q, anew: Why the reruns?

Needless to say, it’d appear that prompt-wise, I’ve now been furloughed / put out to pasture / forced to sit out an indefinite hiatus. And this now fired (still fired-up) blogger is already missing the daily challenge / opportunity to keep on honing my writing skills.

• Once again, I find myself going it alone…
• Oh well (sigh) it was fun whilst it lasted…

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Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:

Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!

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NEVER Follow MisLeader Losers

Daily writing prompt

Are you a leader or a follower?

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It’s tough not to envision nations, planetwide, eventually tumbling like dominoes IF, scant months from now, we bear witness to Donald Dolf Trump plopping his fascist fanny behind the Oval Office desk. Were that to ever go down, he’d promptly keep his campaign promise to rapidly deteriorate / devolve the United States of America into his frequently fantasized fascist state.

And he’d have plenty of well-wisher company, too; all owing to the fact that there’s rarely any shortage of ubiquitous, copycat authoritarians; be they already wallowing in their fetid cesspools of power or aspiring a-holes itching to get stoned on that stench; take their first deep dive into that fascist fecal matter.

Of course, that stomach turning scenario need not turn out that way IF this upcoming fall’s Stateside voter turn-out snowballs into something so massive that none of the countless, Republican enacted voter suppression (f)laws will ever manage to dismantle Democracy; i.e., IF enough of our electorate fully comprehends what’s at stake this election cycle; words to the effect…

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• The Writing on the Wall: Calling ALL readers!
• Fascist pigs pig out! Their role: Freedom feeders!
• Trump swoons for / spoons with Putin
• They’ll burn down Earth*: No disputin’!
• The Wall’s WARNING: DON’T follow MIS-Leaders!

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*both ideologically and ecologically

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Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:

Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!

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Let’s Honor All Mothers Everywhere

In memory of my own late, great Mom…

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Each Mother’s Day, don’t stay mum; don’t be crumbs*
Be matriarchs, here or late, they’re our best chums
Since they nurtured / nursed us to fitness
Let Ma Nature, too, fully witness
Our love eternal esteem, for ALL Mums

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(*informal, chiefly North American) an objectionable or
contemptible person (e.g., “He’s an absolute crumb!”)

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Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:

Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!

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Stormy Weather Still Ahead?

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Trump’s transactional “love life”; hath no real appeal
Entails bad actor Donald’s: Art of (Dirty) Deal
To bed each porn star honey
His N-D-As; flashed hush money
Piggy’s payoff comes to 1 grunt! 1 squeal!

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Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:

Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!

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Sweet Freedom To Trump Sour Fascism?

Daily writing prompt

What does freedom mean to you?

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Forward: My essay cannot even begin to sum up my love of liberty in its entirety; the spirit of freedom which imbues me; dwells within each strand of my DNA; cannot begin to fully express my respect and gratitude for the untold numbers of valiant soldiers who, from time immemorial, have fought and died, whilst combating grotesque oppression wherever it rears its ugly head; how, in the bloodstained process, they so selflessly serve(d) to secure life, liberty and justice for all.

Yet, ever since 2015, when that corrupt, power hungry fool took his downward escalator ride, we the critical thinkers, have become painfully aware of the existential threat he is to freedom’s fresh air; and worst of all, how there’s no shortage of fools out there, way, Way, WAY OUT THERE, who are positioned in deep Deap, DEEP RIGHT FIELD; who are far, Far, FAR too effing eager to swap sweet freedom for sour fascism.

Obviously, we’re now traipsing dangerously close to Donald Dolf Trump’s MAGA-World; where all he need do to snag his psychotic fix of his toadies’ blind loyalty / adulation is to embolden them to devolve into their worst imbecilic, misogynistic, xenophobic selves; AND then, cap all that deplorable crap off with WHAT? An “adorable” red baseball cap?

Worst of all, Teflon Trump (nearly always) manages to remain at large; (seemingly) one step ahead of the (allegedly) long arm of the law; and as such, come November 2024, could (likely will) defeat President Joe Biden. Sadly, no sooner than if/when all of that nasty dust starts to settle, our atlas maps of the U.S.A. will get rebranded T.S.A.; namely, the Trumpian States of America.

At that juncture, Donald Jezus Trump would become the role model; the envy of all authoritarians, worldwide; both empowered and would-be.

Is all hope lost? Not if we, the critical thinkers show up this fall to cast our ballots; to peaceably tell that fascist F’er to go F himself!

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If fascist goons’ moons; eclipse freedom’s sunlight
Rampaging Trump will reign morn, noon and night
Since We can’t live like that!
We must flush that scat! STAT!
Show up, en masse, to outvote extreme right!

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Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:

Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!

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Who Knows?

Daily writing prompt

What is your career plan?

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IF we were living within a philanthropic, farsighted, fair-minded, freedom-based, good-natured, even-tempered society, the pursuit and accumulation of obscene wealth would be dismissed as abhorrent and obsolescent. There’d be ample room for folks of all ethnic and temporal demographics to live out our lives to the fullest; all the way up to each individual’s last breath moment.

Alas, the last time I checked, we don’t live in that world; not when it’s overrun with a gaggle of Putin / Trump suck-ups, tin-foil mad hatters, science deniers, miscreants, misogynists, bigots and other such whack-job creeps! Such onerous, odious realities now serve as the lead-up to this near septuagenarian’s poetry; downloaded with some (too?) tough to answer questions?

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• Who knows when strong storms will unleash untold harm?
• Strongmen / storm troopers will schmooze their fake charm?
• Compounding our well-founded fears…
• Should old folks seek new careers?
• Vie with young folks; when we’ll soon buy the farm?

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Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:

Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!

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An Ugly UnAmerican Performance

Daily writing prompt

What was the last live performance you saw?

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It’s a horrifying thought how, during the LAST performance, which I saw “live” (back on 6 January 2021), the matters-at-hand nearly morphed into Lady Liberty’s very LAST performance; Stateside Democracy’s LAST stand; our Founders’ nearly 250-year-old Grand Experiment taking its LAST gasp.

Tho I did view Donald Dolf Trump’s attempted coup “only” via the telecasts, it’s fair to point out that, at that juncture, we were just wrapping up year #1 of the coronavirus pandemic; and as such, very few live performances were playing out anywhere other than at careless science deniers’ superspreader events and stupidly still open for business establishments.

And, whilst that sums up the then, YIKES sums up the here and now. That’s where we find the vengeance seeking, witness/juror doxing, still at large, would-be dictator, hard at play. And suffice to say, DONNY IS NOT DONE WITH US YET! Most worrisome is how, discourtesy of the Electoral College, he needn’t even win the popular vote. Beyond that, he’s been fully exploiting the way too timid, walking on eggshells Department of Justice and the way too lax Constitution’s list of presidential qualifications.

In other words he could retake the very Oval Office he tried to (metaphorically?) burn down!

Now, were that to become his new reality, our new reality would be facing down the Trump 2.0 Admin / his fascist dictatorship; the blow back from that (perhaps?) making January 6th seem more comparable to the (fabled in MAGA story and song), history revisionists’ scenario; you know the drill…

How these toadies’ whoppers spin Trump’s U.S. Capitol sortie into some sorta “calm”, “orderly” visit by slightly enthused tourists.

Seeing how there’s no way in hell that I could ever unsee what I did see on my TV, back on that dark day in January, I now invite you to take a look-see at my following poetic summation…

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• Malicious Trump’s malcontents and malefactors
• Are surely / surly; insurrection’s bad actors
• Their Jan 6th “performance” did stun
• STILL belittles battles hard won
• By freedom’s champions; fascism’s detractors

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Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:

Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!

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Doable Critter-Rich Mixed Metaphors?

Daily writing prompt

What’s a job you would like to do for just one day?

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True, ignoraNus* Donald Dolf Trump is so COCKY that he routinely CROWS nigh-on all the quiet parts aloud! Yet, an unnerving phrase, such as nigh-on, doth imply that we do not, necessarily, know all that we need to know… correction… all that we MUST know to PEACEABLY, ABSOLUTELY assure Donald’s political downfall; as in long before the first voters cast their 2024 ballots.

*Whilst ignoramus, too, is applicable, that “N” is NOT a typo.

I mean, yesterday did herald the scant six months we have left prior to our Election Day’s deadline, so that leaves little time for gathered intel (scooped Trump poop), to best hone President Joe Biden’s reelection ad campaign / message.

So, working towards our Preserve, Protect and Defend Democracy goal, in a most timely and efficacious manner doth, most assuredly, mean that we cannot delegate our reconnaissance eavesdropping mission to the mere fly on the wall. No folks, even if our operative’s tenure can last JUST ONE DAY, we need to infiltrate, STAT, the MAGA inner sanctum with a Real McCoy Magnitude MOLE; that intrepid sole soul’s M.O. going along the lines of this five step program / verse titled:

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Operation: Sole Mole v. Vulture Vole

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• To briefly hop down; the whole Trump; rabbit hole
• To griefly assume; the role of; crafty mole
• Would divulge the orange vulture molting
• Would bare his new coup plot(s) revolting
• To chiefly kibosh; the vile goal; of THAT vole

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Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:

Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!

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Admired Advisors

Daily writing prompt

List the people you admire and look to for advice…

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With far more decades behind that before me, this particular Daily Prompt can only serve as reminder to the fact that, due to the inevitable mortality issues, my personal roster of admired advisors has been dwindling gradually throughout the “eons”. Gone but impossible to forget are these (mostly) classroom / lecture hall educators (amongst them my own public school teacher parents); from whom I learnt…

• scientific / general critical thinking
• the interaction of cause and effect
• self-expression (spoken / written)
• extemporaneous story telling
• public speaking and debating
• current events analysis / critique
• radio broadcasting / journalism
• poetry creation; e.g. this limerick…

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Re advice from admired folks who one engages
(Our time-honored scholars and savants and sages)
Tho their lessons superb / sublime
Do lessen with passage of time
Since we survive elders; whilst everyone ages

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Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:

Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!

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