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Wishing well intent
Of learned lab coated camp
Crushed by germ’s pol pals
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Which End Nears? ~ Quick Limerick 109
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Even pandemic pros can’t say for sure
Determine Corona V’s M.O. du jour
Might each variant, new?
Turn / tighten the screw?
Will Covid vaccines get trounced or endure?
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Maven v. Craven ~ Quick Limerick 108
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Pandemic Science; pure; ethical; analytical
Tackles life and death afflictions; critical
The maven class overrules
Crass craven overlord fools
Knows that medical must trump political
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Pols, Pals & Foes
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Let’s pick up the pieces; when humdrum Pols take tame stand
And stick to pedestrian speeches; bond to strike up lame band
Once slick admen join them; Pols and Pals both play game bland
They trick to paint tainted world; sell us a spiffed, spoofed name brand
Their nice ads roll ‘round the clock; spread thru the airwaves and stream
“Roll up your sleeves!” they beseech, “Please join vaxxed people’s team!”
While vaccine science, trustworthy, rolls out the Game-Changer scheme
“Jabs” can’t knock out / cure social ills; not at such nauseous extreme
Bottled up in ads’ ointment, the flies team / teem; galore
Trump troglodytes engage erudites; THAT no-win, endless war
Normal notions stump Trump; also his dumbbell / oddball corps
Freedom? Justice? Just buzzwords; they all buzz off / abhor
In most known negative “isms”; Trumpers sprawl, wallow, bask
To learn from pandemics’ hard knocks? They’re not up to that “task”
They won’t even thwart Covid; by simply donning a mask
Are they beyond all redemption? Need anyone ask?
Deep down in the deep end, of the primordial pool
Trumpers get off on their guns; nuff to make them all drool,
Some strafe houses of worship, the workplace, the school
Others are BLAM-BLAM bad cops, who flip off BLM’s rule
Trumpian race and class warfare, proves chronic infection
Dots Pandemic? Dots Climatic? Simps can’t make the connection
Freakin’ fools who can’t fathom the Free Fair election
These days, go on a rampage; foment insurrection
Epilogue:
Granted, verses, above, tell the heart-rending tale
Of my homeland’s decline; beyond the pale / stale
Might “where there’s life there’s hope” wisdom, somehow, prevail?
Well, our Stars and Stripes still fly; Trump’s insurrection did fail!
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Pandemic Elegy
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Oh, the high hopes I had had for humanity
That Corona-V’s “lessons”, could usher in sanity
Yet, the chronic infirmities; confirmed grim fatalities
Failed to touch every heart; teach all righteous realities
The food insecure; the ailing uncured folks, rife
Cannot claim birthright to the long and good life
So, society still stagnates; suffers abundance of denseness
The trigger happy oft spawn, sheer sorrow’s immenseness
Be breaking news gun nuts, civilian or cop
There’s no way in Hell, they ever can stop
When warlords gleefully slay, each new conflict’s white dove
Ditto couplet’s conclusion; mentioned above
Greed for green and green envy; both too frequently meet
At the crash prone intersection; namely Main and Wall Street
Then there’s the myopic, moronic throne sitter asses
Who flat-out refuse to reduce greenhouse gasses
The rightwing’s science deniers pooh-pooh Covid infection
And their spin doctors downplay their Jan. 6th insurrection
In our world, infamy glutted / gutted by inanity
Corona V’s lessons could not lessen insanity
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Brief
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Violence whets slayers’ appetites, like vile aperitif
Each “big shot” boy in blue, bigoted; robs black lives like a thief
Each gun nut shoots down the upright; that’s his M.O. cheap, chief
Like the pandemic’s virus, the butchers’ 3-D motif,
Is to Devastate, Debilitate, Decimate; beyond our belief
Sickos’ societal scourge, sickens survivors with grief
We, the preyed upon masses, have a legitimate beef
For we have nary a prayer, see no sign of relief,
How doth one quell minds, unwell? Deprogram? Debrief?
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Haiku: Tough Talk For Tough Times
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The mindless masses
Muck up microbe management
By maligning masks
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To kick covid butt
Hunker down in your bunker
Mask up in public
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We All Know Who HE Is
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HE hit the links; binge watched TV; took dumps on the can
And defiled / defied all laws of both God and man
HE alienated each ally; hugged each autocrat freak
And shred treaties to ensure, world tensions would peak
HE secured for patricians; their wildest fantasies’ wealth
And screwed over plebeians; our fiscal / physical health
HE saw to it, the working stiffs’ wages would drop
And morphed each workplace, into a wretched sweatshop
HE deep-sixed émigrés’ trudge towards the American dream
And caged families’ tykes, till they’d cry, wail and scream
HE offset boudoir shortcomings; his in the sack stall
And groused till grunts toiled; would erect his daft wall
HE embraced all Nazis and Klansmen; prone to deep psychosis
And they became voter base; his base, simp symbiosis
HE being full of himself, minus praise, HE’d feel dread
And so, yes-men lent him succor; gave him verbal head
HE rarely sat in church pews, beneath pointed steeple
And miscast naysayers / news hawks; “Enemies of the people!”
HE kicked over / cancelled out, time honored science
And showed climatologists / virologists, his flat-out defiance
HE downplayed the plague’s march, spanning our feverish globe
And got promptly outwitted, by a Mindless Microbe
HE obsessed re his ratings; more than COVID’s death toll
And wondered why grieving souls, called him an asshole
HE deemed himself undefeatable, that folks judged him God
And that his ballot box ouster, meant “widespread voter fraud”
HE ranted, demanded to keep his gold throne and fame
And never, once, re his loss: accepted HE was to blame
HE became royally pissed, tried to quash the election,
And rabble roused till HE stirred up mayhem / insurrection
HE’s been impeached, twice; his words / deeds, have earned our revulsion
Yet, it’s highly unlikely HE’ll ever face down expulsion
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Stay Above the Lawn!
The despot’s dense fog dims the dawn
His dormant brain doth favor brawn
His sycophants suck up and fawn
He deems each subject lowly pawn
The unchecked disease he doth spawn
Deep sixes coffins ‘neath dank lawn
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Icky Specifics
‘Tween Trump’s ears is brick-brick-brick
‘Neath man boobs he’s thick-thick-thick
His brain cells don’t click-click-click
On uptake ain’t quick-quick-quick!
Trump’s pandemic; ick-ick-ick
Has made millions sick-sick-sick
Works not one damned lick-lick-lick
Our time runs out tick-tick-tick!
Trump’s a grabber; chick-chick-chick
In grrrls’ necks he’s crick-crick-crick
Lusts to dip his wick-wick-wick
Fems do brand him; prick-prick-prick!
Trump’s dictator; dick-dick-dick
Courts red staters; hick-hick-hick
Not blue voters’ pick-pick-pick
Out rear door we’ll kick-kick-kick!
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