Sweet condensation!You’ve came to rescue me Cleanse me and bathe meWash away this misery Will you return meTo the way things used to be? Or just desert meAnd leave me to my pain And grief
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The Silent Majority
The Silent Majority is a misnomer It is like hitting a sacrifice Bug-eyed fly! Then calling it a Homer? White Superiority is shot through the refrain Let’s Make America Great Again! A quarter of the United States population Is their pious peeps Outside of Tik-Tok and TrumpContinue reading “The Silent Majority”
Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn Original sin What’s left out Is more important Than what’s put in Government spin Betrayed by the vocal components of the wind History lessons for the next of kin The lions at the mercy of the hunters pen Why do you think the fox Enters the inattentive henhouse! With a sly grin?
Pharaoh Broadway
If it was money Coming over the Border The New Prophets would say It is making the economy grow But people over profits? Hell no! Let us pray Our sins away Orange-tanned and Blonde-coiffed Moses Now leads us Down Pharoah Broadway
Happy Valentines’ Day
You came to me From another LandAt a Time when I needed A Helping Hand You Spoke a Language I did not KnowSomehow our Love Began to GrowBody To SoulYou showed me A Whole New World You gave me a Beautiful Boy and GirlYou broke the Hardness In my HeartThank You Baby For giving meContinue reading “Happy Valentines’ Day”
Social Divid-ends
If someone told you five plus five equaled eleven? Would you believe them? Is it a socially relevant theorem? The one and one equivalence theory Derived from your initial answer Thus entwines thought Like a vine stem Twisting and turning truth as it unwinds Up the Tree of Life Into conscientious stratagem
REPUBLICAN JESUS
Verily verily I say unto thee! Thine virtues attained By thine markets be free Charity! By the exalted disparity Twas not a penance Meant to relieve Merely a lavish edifice stitched to seam An elusive dream Better beggars! To be fishermen Making haste Far away to sea! Slackers and laggards Are not meant to beContinue reading “REPUBLICAN JESUS”
REMINISCE Of THE SQUALL’S MIST
Time has a way with seasons Winter Summer Spring and Fall Looking back Some folks show Warm kinship Plant seeds Of real friendship While others Bitterly cold Brusque Outer space From whence cometh the squall? Did they really Knoweth me At all? Sensible sensibilities Intact on a clean NYC downtown toilers train Musing beside theContinue reading “REMINISCE Of THE SQUALL’S MIST”
A TOAST
A Toast to the Nation For Tough Economic and Pandemic Times A Toast to My Friends For Putting Up with My Rhymes A Toast to President Obama For Adding Color To the Presidential Panorama A Toast to All the Teachers And Nature’s Wonderful Creatures A Toast to All We Love And Providence Up Above AContinue reading “A TOAST”
TIS ONLY I
My Mother and my Father Out of the Light they Lie The Warrant would not find them And here ‘Tis only I ‘Tis only I Shall hang so high O let not man remember The Soul that God forgot But fetch the county kerchief And noose me in the knot And I will rot ForContinue reading “TIS ONLY I”