there are bad moments
for lovers and dreamers now
due to climate change
地球温暖化により、愛好家や夢想家にとって今は悪い瞬間があります
So I saw a hawkand then a cat prowling byafter my sparrows最初に私はタカを見て、それから私のスズメの後にストーカーをしている路地で猫を見ました
Alone all the dayunless I bake and serve cake --A bribe to have friends友達に賄賂を渡して訪問するためにケーキを焼かない限り、一日中一人で
The Boogey Man is really true/and he will come to frighten you/If you are bad and hit your mum/down the chimney Trump will come/to pull your hair and scratch your face/then win a Presidential race.
"Ivory-billed woodpecker officially declared extinct, along with 22 other species."
This woodpecker is now extinct/Another species we hoodwinked/If we keep up this reckless pace/then Nature is our welfare case/I wish we would exterminate/a certain GOP magnate . . .
"Alabama governor defends plan to use covid relief funds to build new prisons."
Covid ain't the problem, child/Here in Mobile folks is wild/shootin', stabbin', settin' fires/pullin' down the old church spires/So we got to lock 'em up/in a metal wikiup/Once we got 'em all in jail/we'll see about this virus tale . . .
So many emails --
can ten fingers handle it?
Better to chant "Om"
非常に多くのメール指が死んでいるので、「オーム」と唱えますSo many emails
So little is said in them
So much time wasted
非常に多くのメール何も言われず、彼らは私の時間を無駄にしますSo many emails --The mourning doves outside fly.The wind hisses "Come."非常に多くのメール荒風の中、鳩と一緒に飛んでいきます
Taxing carbon sounds ideal/in a world that isn't real/But such pixie dust won't fly/with our own Joe Sixpack guy/Any tax that sounds too green/no doubt will threaten gasoline/Let us tax instead hot air/that comes from ev'ry keen longhair!
You’re going to be asked to prove your vaccination status. Here’s how to do it.
I went into my coffee shop/the manager told me to stop/She said I needed proof of vax/otherwise I could make tracks/So now I stay at home and drink/plain tap water from kitchen sink.
South Korea considers ban on eating dog meat, as pet ownership grows in the country.
Man's best friend in some locations/makes for hungry expectations/Curly tail and panting tongue/go into fine egg foo young/But pooch pate is on the wane/viewed as worse than acid rain/Crickets now are all the rage/sauteed with some ripe greengage.
The daily commute --
piling up coin for eyelids
that will close at last
毎日の通勤ついに死んだら目を凝らすためにコインを持ち込む
The daily commute to a big empty office --we are out of soap大きな空のオフィスへの毎日の通勤私たちは石鹸が不足しています
The daily commute --birds have offices in trees --mice in the dumpster毎日の通勤鳥は木に彼らのオフィスを持っています鳥は木に彼らのオフィスを持っています
Peeling hard boiled eggs
Are the eggs bad or am I?
The smell of sulfur
固ゆで卵の皮をむく硫黄の匂いは私か卵のどちらかが地獄に行くことを私に思い出させます
Ants on the sidewalk --Stepping on their busy flow --I am a killer歩道のアリ私はそれらを踏んで気にしません
The horse chestnut tree --the leaves look so razor sharp --they wouldn't slice fogセイヨウトチノキ葉はかみそりのように鋭く見えますが、霧をスライスしません
"But it is not given that one man should possess that which is above another, wherefore the world lieth in sin."
Doctrine & Covenants. Chapter 49; Verse 20.
In the daily scramble for a piece of coin I find
many who devote themselves to leaving most behind.
Upon their hoard of silver, land, and whimsical bitcoin,
they simply want to pile up more, although they must purloin.
Then they tower over us, possessing might and main;
spreading sin and folly while they play at suzerain.
Even Solomon the wise, when given riches great,
eventually gave in to lusts that sealed his gloomy fate.
Oh Lord I too am tempted to accumulate a pile,
then sit at ease and never stir or go the second mile.
But Jesus told the rich young man to sell all that he had
and give the funds to those in need, the sickly and ill-clad.
So in thy loving kindness thou has kept my wallet lean --
Necessity has taught me to enjoy the navy bean,
and be content with modest means while sharing what I may
without the pomp and pretense that snuffs out life's sweet bouquet.
Republicans in Arizona/have treated Biden like a Jonah/Yet their very machinations/have destroyed their allegations/But will they spurn their shibboleth?/I'd say do not hold your breath . . .
Sen. Grassley, the oldest GOP senator at 88, announces he will seek another term.
(WaPo)
Charles E. Grassley, 88/wants to tempt his hoary fate/He will seek another term/as a Senate pachyderm/To avoid a shift chthonic/he will need a damn good tonic!
Greener pastures: Marijuana jobs are becoming a refuge for retail and restaurant workers.
(WaPo)
Dude, no apron do you need/when you work around the Weed/No more lousy tips or grease/Pot is now the golden fleece/You'll make money like a pro/helping marijuana grow/packing it and shipping out/You'll be rich as Gates -- far out!
The quail pecking seeds --
hurrying each tiny bite;
their hungry eyes black
ウズラのつつく種 --それぞれの小さな一口は彼らの空腹の黒い目に反映されます
The quail pecking seeds --their tin sheet sobbing resoundsthrough the alleywayウズラのつつく種彼らのすすり泣く金属の叫びが路地に響き渡る
The quail pecking seeds --they push away the sparrowswhile probing the cracksウズラのつつく種彼らは深い亀裂を探りながらスズメをいじめます
Rinsing the white rice --
cold water stings my fingers --
I'm hungry right now
白米をすすぐ冷たい水が私の指を刺す今お腹が空いています
Rinsing the white rice --some brown grains go down the drain -- but the black ones stay白米をすすぐ茶色の穀物のいくつかは排水溝を下って行きます米の黒い粒ではありません
Rinsing the white rice --green scallions would be tasty --so would the Pope's nose白米をすすぐねぎはご飯によく合います教皇の鼻もそうだろう
I'm drowning in the gene pool of my ancestors -- gadzooks!/This is something they don't teach you in the science books/Sure, they mention traits from parents that we might assume/but not how it becomes the path to our own tragic doom/I've got my father's piggish eyes, and his blooming girth/my mother's nose and lack of any pleasant sort of mirth/my receding chin is just a gift from Uncle Jim/My last name's unpronounceable -- I use a pseudonym/My Viking forebears drank their mead until it turned to flab/and I am challenged with their own familial bar tab/The bags beneath my eyes are shared with cousins by the score/and now I am afflicted with the damn ancestral snore/I started out a comely youth, with wit and charm and looks/and now my visage is a troll's, along with warts -- gadzooks!
No one ever lost a vote/because we wore a winter coat/but when the temp is way too high/we start to scream "Let's dump this guy!"/If Biden can't control the heat/the next election, he'll be beat/But King Canute found to his cost/bossing nature's a cause lost!
A couple wore masks inside a Texas restaurant to protect their newborn son. The owner kicked them out.
(WaPo)
When in Texas please don't ask/anyone to wear a mask/or use one in a greasy spoon/It will make the owner swoon/Texans are as tough as nails/and soon will grow prehensile tails.
Pompeo repeats ‘zombie’ claim that Obama gave Iran $150 billion.
(WaPo)
The former Trump administration/is nothing but an aberration/Truth to them is what their boss/liked to call mere apple sauce/Pompeo is such a case/He lies with such a poker face/If I spread fibs like him I hope/my mouth is washed out with lye soap!
Counting the quarters --
still not enough for laundry;
my socks in the sink
洗濯をするためにコインを数えています --靴下を流しで洗う
A cool autumn night --ghostly headlights and damp leaves --beer can in the street涼しい秋の夜 --幽霊のような車のヘッドライトと湿った葉 --通りに空のビール缶
The wail of the traindrills through the night like banshees going to a grave山を通る夜行列車の叫び-
退却する悪魔