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
