summer smoke

the murky stillness

of summer smoke in the hills

stings my heart and eyes

I look up through the trees

I look up through the trees

and remember it's Friday,

and the trees don't care

summer spreading green

summer spreading green

and purple over dry ground

that dreams of water

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.