Enemy of the People!

I just cannot state strongly enough how totally dishonest much of the Media is. Truth doesn’t matter to them, they only have their hatred & agenda. This includes fake books, which come out about me all the time, always anonymous sources, and are pure fiction. Enemy of the People! @realDonaldTrump

The media is so corrupt

that I really have to irrupt

about their agendas

which are such mind bendas

that all of them ought to be whupped!

Be familiar with all

Think of your brethren like unto yourselves, and be familiar with all and free with your substance, that they may be rich like unto you. Jacob 2:17

You cannot give away your wealth

without becoming richer;

Since pouring out abundantly

bejewels ev'ry pitcher.

So be familiar with your gold

and judge not others proudly;

and perhaps your own mistakes

will not be broadcast loudly . . .

with its dead white head

with its dead white head

the mushroom pushes the grass

away for a look

Act like a lady --

Bodycam footage released on Tuesday shows the moment Denver police officers told a Colorado journalist to “act like a lady” as they handcuffed her for attempting to photograph them. Huffington Post

Though her work is sometimes shady,

a writer always acts the lady.

And if a cop dares to enjoin,

she kicks him gladly in . . . Des Moines.

U.S. is denying passports to Americans along the border, throwing their citizenship into question

I went on a vacation down in Texas some while back;
I bought me a serape and got tanned brown as a sack.
As I stood idly looking at the Border one fine day,
an agent of the government told me to step his way.

He looked all through my wallet and examined my blue eyes;
and then he said I looked like I should join the other guys
he had locked up for faking their American ID --
I was an illegal and a threat to decency.

When I protested that my folks from Norway had once come,
he sneered and said that disbelief was his firm rule of thumb.
I would be deported and sent back away down South
where I would find myself with only rain and cottonmouth.

When I stood up before the judge and shouted "Dette er feil!"
he said that Spanish lingo in his courtroom would not fly.
And so to Patagonia I found myself exiled,
and never with dear Uncle Sam have I been reconciled.

A man without a country; that is now my sad condition,
riding a guanaco while I hope for extradition.
Tell my fam'ly I'll be home for Christmas if I can --
unless Homeland Security sends me to Pakistan . . . 

A Clump of Trump

When you see “anonymous source,” stop reading the story, it is fiction! @realDonaldTrump

Those devious reporters with their nameless sources write

such a lot of pish posh that I know is out of spite.

Good thing that the newsprint they rely upon today

I'm causing to be taxed so much it soon will go away!

Raising Thermostat Awareness

In an email obtained by the New York Times, Rebecca Katz, a senior adviser for the Nixon campaign, requested that WCBS-TV, the station hosting the debate, adjust the temperature in the debate hall at Hofstra University to a balmy 76 degrees.   WaPo

When women are cold

they feel too controlled.

But when things are heated

they're rarely defeated.

The Ballad of Husky Juice

Conglomerates and startups alike are placing bets on “enhanced” drinks that promise everything from better sleep to a more youthful complexion. While sales of such drinks are rising—up 11% in the past year to $3 billion, according to market-research firm Spins—hundreds of new ones are launched each year, and the majority peter out within a couple of years. Finding success involves the right mix of funding, taste, health claims and luck.  WSJ

Like that Tono-Bungay H.G. Wells wrote of before,

 elixirs by the hundreds cram the shelves of ev'ry store.

The fluid of the month today is labeled Husky Juice;

tis made with mountain waters and the sap of verdant spruce.

Containing sacred tana leaves from Egypt's dusty shore,

and trace amounts of gallium as well as hellebore,

Husky Juice is touted for the colic and the gout;

for rheumatic fever and for pickling fresh trout.

Amazon-dot-com has got it stocked, and Walgreen's too --

Elon Musk and Beyonce are serving it with stew.

It's antioxidental and will melt away the fat;

and once it is fermented it will help with dull chitchat.

So many people drink it that both Pepsi and big Coke

have tried to steal the formula with dagger and dark cloak.

Surely you have tasted it? It's vended in machines

from Punxsutawney USA to tropic Philippines.

But something started happening to those who drank this brew;

they broke out into blotches of bright green and red and blue.

The outcry was unanimous; the guilty folk that made

this poisonous elixir must be thrown in a stockade!

The CEO of Husky Juice did not give up the ship;

instead, he had his marketers convince kids it was hip

to have a skin of plaid instead of tattoos or nose ring --

and thus the money poured in and the till kept up its ring.

And now you know the story and can judge things for yourself;

should this parlous beverage remain upon the shelf?

I can think of liquors much more dangerous by half --

in fact I think I'll order me some in a large carafe . . . 

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and what lies between

light and shadow is colored

by a rough texture

the clouds at daybreak

the clouds at daybreak

quietly calculate chance

and time -- then leave