Friday, August 22, 2025

GHISLAINE MAXWELL’S GREATEST PARDON SEEKING HITS

 1. I Saw Nothing 

 2. Me, Andrew, Virginia and the Fake Photo

 3. Donald’s So Good To Me

 4. Don’t Ask Me About Nubiles

 5. Jeffrey Told Me Nothing I’ll Share With You 

 6. Jail Is Better With Privileges

 7. Glory Days 

 8. Take Me Back To London

 9.  No! No! Capitol Hill

10. Donald’s So Good To Me (Reprise, duet with Todd Blanche)

Thursday, August 21, 2025

New Poem: CALIFORNIA GERRYMANDER REFERENDUM RAMBLE

 can’t get around the California referendum system where the issues aren’t decided by actual study of the issues instead we’re going to have right wing consultants crank out commercials that will scare no information voters into believing their voting rights will be taken away and of course Gavin Newsom will fundraise off this and perhaps rasp his way through a few public announcements about the Importance of 2026 maybe selling the notion that this will check some of Donald and J.D.’s worst behavior 

then if it passes and it likely will, Gavin and the Democrats who love holding power will resume triangulation making trans and homeless demonized like Bill Clinton doing this to Sister Souljah in 1992

and we’ll return to Oh What Will The Republicans Think. No Social Programs and Can We Get The Joe Rogan vote

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

New Poem: TEXAS LET DOWN RAMBLE

 hear the cartoon voice from what Molly Ivins used to call the Texas Lege and that voice says if we let them vote they’ll vote wrong so my former home state which used to acknowledge the existence of Democrats now dyes the state some hue of salamander red and applies the branding iron hoping for air conditioned passivity unquestioning faith state sponsored narrow version of Jesus Christ in the school system 

and here’s Beto O’Rourke fund raising and that’s not much of a bulwark against chicken fried fascism

Thursday, August 14, 2025

New poem: STATE OF AMERICA RAMBLE

 He's going to Alaska to waste the world's time. He's going to Alaska to polar bear a hug to Putin Trump Wilsonagain, say, "Papa Bear.” Putin will say, "Hello useful idiot. And bring the American business back to Russia, No, I'm not stopping the war and in I still want my partitioning in part of all that stuff. is happening. The district of Columbia is now the. Well, no other way to say it, but the police district of Columbia. with Pam Bondi, coming down hard, hard, hard. at the DOJ who snapped and threw a sandwich at somebody who shouldn't even be patrolling the streets of D.C. And this.. at 858 p.m. Pacific time, August 14th, this is the state of America. And. God keeping helping us get from one day to the next.

Friday, August 1, 2025

New Poem: CHEMOTHERAPY

 lay back in the chair

 with the picc line connected

 first the hydration 

 then the anti-nausea med

 after that the preparation 

 for the following week’s hospital stay 

 *

 the above interrupted partway through 

 for prepared lunch:

 sandwich chips peaches in syrup plus cookie

 >

 see the other patients in the room

 the one next to me wants to live

 his regular life in spite of the fatigue

 hoping he’ll have extra years 

 from his time in the chair

 connected to bags of liquid 

 which empty in thirty minutes