Showing posts with label coronavirus vaccinations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coronavirus vaccinations. Show all posts

Saturday, January 1, 2022

New Poem: FAREWELL 2021 RAMBLE

 it’s all over now as we continue to live in a house divided which cannot stand as it is but one-third of a nation still thinks they’re doing just fine thank you and yes it was the kind of a year (as Mel Torme used to sing on a nostalgic TV show) where people in government made unforced errors regarding the spread of coronavirus variants and kept their jobs and the president at least got infrastructure passed but voting rights for all was deemed something lesser, perhaps something to fundraise off of this year until the midterms arrive and don’t forget the fundraising off of let’s have a majority of Democrats who will still most likely default to Oh Dear! What Will the Republicans think?

meanwhile the sonic firework booms detonate outside and some of us are ready to hunker down one more  time and stay in our fallout shelters until both January and/or Omicron ends

how well or poorly will we fare for this the second full year of living with instead of vanquishing plague

Sunday, July 25, 2021

New Poem: NEVER ENDING PANDEMIC RAMBLE

 the pandemic never ends because of ego and frailty the refusal to correct course when the wind shifts after the Mission Accomplished sign is posted on billboards all over our once great nation and the CDC can’t climb down from its don’t need to wear masks indoors redwood tree and the GOP climbs only a few inches down its covid vaccine is bad because Trump wasn’t re-elected mountain 

Tucker Carlson gets his braying ass handed to him in Montana and all he likely thinks is look at the impact  my irresponsible shit-talking has on the nation that some random guy got in my face and it went viral and the libs still know my name and writhe in pain because Rupert and Lachlan continue to have my back and all I care about is good television and I’m Harry Lime in THE THIRD MAN on top of the Vienna Ferris Wheel with no worries whatsoever about the tiny unvaccinated people way down below who believe they’re self-determination martyrs—and they are dying from the words coming out of my and my network’s mouth

Sunday, April 4, 2021

New Poem: RED TO ORANGE AND BACK TO RED

 it’s springtime 

 it’s the annual celebration of Resurrection 

 it’s the local supermarket telling customers:

 sanitize your carts your own damn self

 it’s all the beach towns eager for spring break $

 get as many college kids on the piers as possible 

 before the media optics look too bad

 and we have to limit access and hand out masks

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 on the West Coast,

 we read about infection spread in the Midwest

 but we—again—want normal before we’re ready

 begging for a few more gallops before the storm clouds gather

  

Saturday, March 13, 2021

New Poem: WE NEED BORING

 hear the conservatives cry

 see them make twisted sad faces

 world heals as they retreat

 into playing familiar culture war games

 moans of they’re taking this away

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 thank the good Lord for boredom 

 all hail smooth running competence

 praise the desire to fix what’s broken

 we need boring in our great land

 government letting us breathe again