Happiness

Happy Peppy Formal Shleppy Dance around the house Intrepid Cheerful Smiling Outlook Beguiling Chit-chat upon the block Free-styling Jovial Jocular Vision Binocular Styling felicitously spectacular Advantageous Opportune Untroubled Fortune Happiness is a delightful idea Whose flower is in bloom Unaware as it were Of the myriad physic and quantum forces Arrayed to foreshadow its ruin

Human Life Strife and Deep Inner Passions

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”

Who Knew Me as a Child?

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?”

Nightmare

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”

Manufacturing Proper Gander Back to the Future

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”

A Bear In a China Market

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”