Fetus Force

The government wants your uterus. Please mail it in a plain brown package to Fetus Force, A.C.B. div. /SCOTUS9. It will be reprogrammed, micro-chipped, patriotically decorated and returned with proper child-bearing instructions. A list of government-approved … Read more

Grifter in Gold

He’s a loser, just like you, sir. You, who are his base. He’s just a con whose time has come. His suit might match his face. Throw away that MAGA hat, in thirty-six days moot. … Read more

Insurrection Act II

Rotund king in gold bodysuit enters right, tips his hair, tells a few one-liner lies, exits left, very slowly, down a small ramp, trips, rolls offstage. Four elderly white men in turtle suits march in, singing: … Read more

Torment

Universal torment is the nature of the game. Sometimes it’s right, and then the rules just change. What was, still is, and evermore shall be, but not the same. And laws, like mad chess pieces, … Read more

No Poem Today

This is not the time for rhyme or careful rumination. Train of thought is overwrought and has just left the station. Protests down in Louisville of course attracted violence. Covid’s killed two hundred-thou and all … Read more

The Handoff

Biden’s going to hand his presidency to Kamala, then hide in the oval office like it was Valhalla. That’s the latest racist charge from our beloved leader. It’s the kind of thing that makes a … Read more

Court and Snark

We thought Mitt gave a shit, but now he’s shown his hand. He’s just another drummer in the orange marching band. So RGB’s replacement will be named Saturday, soon’s they get her coffin out the … Read more

Fast Forward

This thing didn’t make folks die. That was all a great big lie. History will be amended. Other truths have been upended. Oh, sure, we defeated ISIS. And there was no climate crisis. Iraq’s WMD’s were … Read more

Era Ta Ta

This mother fucking twenty-twenty has its share of shots aplenty. But no one saw this Ruth thing coming, Democrats despondent, bumming. Ovid could not have predicted politics so self-afflicted. Before you can take a breath, … Read more

No Justice

Of course he had her killed on Rosh Hashanah. He likes to mar big dates with evil deeds. And killing of the Democrats’ madonna had become uppermost amongst his needs. We might see Ted Cruz … Read more

Viral News

Big Ten bullied back into action. Athletes never die. They just get stiff. Like those hundred thousand birds just dropping dead in New Mexico. Wind mills? Likely dream catchers. Melania replacement statue in her hometown … Read more

Big Daddy

Look, over in the corner. It’s Daddy Longlegs. You know, the one who killed the Brown Recluse. Even the Black Widow is afraid of this bad daddy. Who’s actually a good daddy, guarding his eggs … Read more

Exit the Sandman

Our king has built a castle of mistakes. On shifting sands. And still the waves don’t reach. Seaweed lashes walls, snails charge and seagulls peck the gates. But the tide will decide. And the moon … Read more

Red Tape

He didn’t want a panic. He hates to see us manic. Just die and go in peace. Some day this thing will cease and go away like magic. Oh, sure, it was quite tragic. As … Read more

Gone Bouzouki

An Irish bouzouki, when played by a Wookie can be mournful, hearty or hairy. But in a quartet with the bad Boba Fett on his lute the results were just scary. Yoda had to save … Read more

Place Markers

On Labor Day we celebrate how our great country works. The rich pay us to kill ourselves and then treat us like jerks. We celebrate the forty hour week, plus overtime. They work us hard and bleed … Read more