New Poem: FAREWELL 2020

 farewell 2020

 the year where someone scratched

 the tone arm hard across the favorite record

 with a rrrrrrrrrrrppppp sound

 and everything changed

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 farewell 2020

 the year where the Republican adage 

 government is best that governs least

 proved to be a deadly lie

 leave it to the states made everything worse

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 may 2021

 be the year where we don’t read these words:

 we don’t have 60 votes

 full vaccinated immunity not until 2022

 no federal charges filed against Donald Trump

Donald Trump’s Greatest Impeachment Hits Deluxe Edition

1. This Rusher Thing
2. My Lester Holt Interview (spoken word)
3. Putin On Line 1
4. Ukraine Do Me A Favor
5. Rudy Don’t Fail
6. It Was A Perfect Phone Call
7. Bill Barr Said I Can Do Anything
8. Mueller On My Mind
9. Two Story White House (duet with Melania)
10. Wag The Middle East Dog
11. Blame Hunter Biden
12. Let’s Get This Acquittal Started
Bonus Tracks:
13. Who’s Lev Parnas?
14. Don’t Speak (No Doubt cover dedicated to John Bolton)
15. No Witnesses

New Poem: TALKING GOP IMPEACHMENT TALKING POINTS BLUES

we stay on message
no matter how much it changes
sing What’s Wrong With That
over and over and over
make light of crimes
we’d crucify Democrats for doing
say Ukraine doesn’t rise to parking ticket status
trot out our two insult comics
keep sending messages to the public
turn off your TVs
plug your ears
yell Womp Womp at holiday dinners
when lefty relatives talk back
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but know this
some of us are as sick of Trump
as you are
>
tired of justifying his disingenuous
distorted disrespectful behavior
weary of waking up to the stench
of fresh burning trash
not knowing when the train stops
and we’re ejected from club cars
waiting at the depot in a strange town
aware no one will arrive

Jamil Smith on the Democratic Party’s unwillingness to impeach.

[At this writing, Elizabeth Warren is the first 2020 Democratic Presidential candidate to support impeachment of Donald Trump.]

Excerpt from Jamil Smith’s ROLLING STONE Trump Impeachment article:
If Democrats were smarter, they would understand that initiating the impeachment of Trump might actually galvanize their base because it would demonstrate that leadership was willing to take the obvious, the logical and the constitutional step once presented with such an abundance of evidence. They would grasp that the visual of their party standing up to a president wedded equally to corruption and to his assortment of bigotries would be appealing to an electorate where black voters are increasingly driving the conversation. Democrats would seize upon the Mueller Report as a flashpoint for organization and recruitment, rather than take the task of prosecution that the Constitution assigned to Congress, hand it off to voters and call that “democracy.” It is up to us as citizens to choose our elected officials, not to do their jobs for them.