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Scribble scrabble Dibble dabble Onwards to language Mathematical values Alas achieved Hat with tassel? Career Bills Workplace Essentially fashioned Family Community Society Fairly rationed? Old age Retirement? Social Security To be fastened? Shakespeare’s famous soliloquy To be or not to be! Health Happiness Love Economic well-being! Without a dollar in your pocket! Democracy will notContinue reading “Human Life Strife and Deep Inner Passions”

Oh! How long I have traversed through the social wild Silently strong Yet wavering All thru the economic while Bittered Battered Formed Consumer branded Stylishly adorned Resilience Ye may find! Surviving Above the political wavy waters Who knew me as a child? The sunny entrepreneurial days Friendship plays Family Together! Happy memories Thus compiled! WorkContinue reading “Who Knew Me as a Child?”

Abracadabra! Voila! Hocus pocus Presto! Swinging on a star Sim salabim Open sesame Alakazam Shazam! Objects appear close In the magic mirror! Poof! Gone! The hand renders What the eye cannot see From afar

I hear You shed a tear For I am leaving here There are places That we do not know As it is raining Elsewhere is snow Daylight beckons Moonlight glows Steam rises Water flows Mountains crest Valleys below As the butterfly Emerges from the pupal case Life changes form Faculty and face Do not fear!Continue reading “Spooky Actions”

Sleepy Creepy Down winding stairs Murky Stinky Silhouette of strange man appears Shouting Pleading You must beware! Tingling Tensing Sensing mine rising hairs! Turn the corner To expansive dim-lit square Sudden movement Red-eyed black cat stares Mom peering through kitchen window Weird! Her hazy gaze certainly says She is blissfully unaware Rustling noise Garbage-can eatingContinue reading “Nightmare”

Nixon shock China blocked Free Market Frankenstein now Declines to shop After years of closing down manufacturing factories Up and down the American block Moving overseas Years later Finally! Temu and Tik Tok goods prices Neoliberally please Alas aghast currently Trade War sticker prices up! Stock market down Trump Tariffs Creating more middle class andContinue reading “Manufacturing Proper Gander Back to the Future”

As the day grew darker There appeared a bear In a China market Raging the owner must pay up! The bruin determined to wreck and disrupt Commenced destroying All the delectable goods in the international shop! When asked how his Jungle mates would shop? The wily grizzly proclaimed! All the creatures must henceforth forward BeContinue reading “A Bear In a China Market”

Trees barren Feel the verve Birds cawing Pulse the nerves Sunshine brighter Less disturbed Bees soon Will be buzzing Throughout the World Spring is sprung Blossom returns Each year Mother Earth’s Re-transformation unfurls In the sight Smell Touch Hopeful minds Of boys and girls

DOGE (pronounced -dodge) Accountability Doosh! Invincibility Billionaire Celebrity Fascist Audacity Income Inequality American Democracy

Imposing blanket tariffs Raises across the board prices Does that benefit poor and working class people? Or the wealthy corporations and elites You know the ones’ buying the first-class political seats Way way way up! Can you smell the cents of Musk On the American Rising Income Inequality! Fuhrer-esque volatility! Captained Chaos! Free Market FrankensteinContinue reading “Pop Goes the Weasel!”