New Poem: MIKE GOES TO KINSTON

 it’s Desperation Time

 what’s a few more potential infections 

 it’s raining

 maybe the raindrops will dilute covid droplets

 I’m the good soldier

 doesn’t matter about my sick staff

 don’t want to cancel and go home

 won’t make nice with The Lincoln Project

 just want to be a stoic kinder gentler bigot

 hold on to the MAGAs I secretly deplore

 when I run for the top spot in 24.

New Poem: THE DEPUTY SHERIFF WEARS NO MASK

the boss won’t wear one
he calls wearing a mask a nasty word
I wouldn’t allow to be said around Mrs. Pence
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by the time I got to the Mayo Clinic
I thought about the vanity sin
of defying orders of the clinic
who knows what the virus does
to staff and patients alike
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but I decided to obey the boss
and the uncouth voters we need
taking a big big risk
hoping God knows
I’m rendering unto Caesar
keeping mental fingers crossed