No. CL.ii: EXTRA! Annie Randy Lives

From Quartz Weekend Edition: Making money during the apocalypse.

Bryan Menegus reports for Gizmodo from a conference whose attendees envisage a future where capitalism is under siege. “The machinery of freedom” apparently will include floating sea colonies, special economic zones, and stateless cryptocurrencies. And it’s up to these elite techno-libertarian attendees to ensure that future happens—whether it benefits the rest of the world or not. 

[WARNING: Piece is badly written and probably never saw an editor's red pencil. Reader caution, especially English major's, is advised.]

Annie Randy lives!
'swhy
ever'one else is gotta die

Inane, insane,
in th' main
on Chris-t-ain

ever'one ya distain
throwed unner th' train
fer capital gain...
whuts t' complain

all's this hears sayin' is t' be free
yer gonna need sum more slavery

No. CL.i: EXTRA! RIP GOP?

Globe And Mail: Trump’s politics of wrath leaves GOP in shambles (Paywall)

Large numbers of Republicans would dearly love to desert their leader...But if provoked by signs of rebellion, it is not inconceivable that Mr. Trump would split with the party and run under a new conservative banner. That's a development that...would kill the GOP.

Hey, GOP, you down in the dumps
because you elected Donald J. Trump?
Come off it, what's with the weeping.
Seeds sown. That's what you're reaping.
You say the Bible
is always reliable,
but there's a lesson you don't appreciate:
GOD, I mean Donald, does not negotiate.
On deck all hands
is what HE demands.
Elections are fine, but listen my Brethern
your "Good Book" speaks of the KINGDOM of heaven.
If democracy is really your thing,
why nominate a wannabe king?

[Updated: September 8, 2017, 8:07 p.m.]

No. CL: After Whitman (a sampler)

casting aside
rose colored glasses
I contemplate
everything passes
I recognize
however galling
there is no meaning
I have no calling
I have no purpose
I have no soul
though
through circumstance
I may play a rôle
crowd scene extra
somewhere in the drama
were I a Republican
I'd blame Obama

No. CXLIX.ii: EXTRA! Trump Jr Testifies

NYT: Trump Jr. Says He Wanted Russian Dirt to Determine Clinton’s ‘Fitness’ for Office (Paywall)

Donald Trump Jr. told Senate investigators on Thursday that he set up a June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer because he was intrigued that she might have damaging information about Hillary Clinton, saying it was important to learn about Mrs. Clinton’s “fitness” to be president.

Opening statement from Crown Prince Donald J. Trump, Jr.:

Mr. Chairman, let me dispel your confusion,
I never engaged in any collusion.
That time I met with a roomful of Russians?
I never dreamed there could be repercussions.
Hence dispense with the pillory.
All I wanted was dirt on Hillary,
something to cast doubt on her fitness
that's the God's honest truth, as Jared's my witness.
It is so rude to think I'd collude
I only was helping Uncle Vlad to intrude
to assure dad became president.
Your insinuations I deeply resent.
I did not with Russians co-ordinate.
I simply ate what they put on my plate.
My email reply did say "I love it."
I can't deny it. (But you can go shove it!)
Why must I suffer this partisan rancor?
How come no one, EV-ER, questions Ivanka?

No. CXLVIX.i: EXTRA! Other Alternatives

USA Today: All the president’s clergymen: A close look at Trump’s ‘unprecedented’ ties with evangelicals

A little while later the crowd gathered round the president. Some laid a hand on him for a prayer that led the participant recalling the episode, Tony Suarez, to feel as though “the anointing of the Holy Spirit was in that room.”

to see "Christian" ministers

making obeisance

to Donald J. Trump

unhuman excrescence...

what are they doing

I think it odd

if they truly be Christian

we need new Gods

not ones yet stupider

like Zeus or Jupiter

a God as nice as

good old Dionysus

I think Apollo

I maybe could follow

would that he and Athena

were in the arena...

No. CXLVIX: Unsummery News Summary (Before The Fall)

Let's get real face the fact in the present:
Trump's nothing more than a nouveau riche peasant
who with his wealth from undisclosed sources
wants to chop down our cherry orchard.
His taste is atrocious —
garish, gilded and gaudy.
In pursuing sex
he's always been naughty.
He insists his steak be grilled overdone.
He does not drink wine. He is not much fun.
Nixon resigned.
Fate spared us Ted Kennedy.
But with this guy
there is no remedy.
Now...I do not want to make any fuss,
but this man's just a tad too dangerous.
Korea, trade winds, immigration...problems aplenty...
in foresight our hindsight might not see 2020.
Curious, no,
how history meanders?
What's next in store?
Please not Bernie Sanders.

No. CXLVIII.i: EXTRA! Question

If Nature's not pissed at Trump's Dreamer embargo
why's she drawing a bead on Mar A Lago?

© 2017 The New York Times Company

No. CXLVIII: On Concious Uncoupling II

Guardian: Vladimir Putin says Donald Trump is 'not my bride, and I'm not his groom' 

To put paid to inference of influence,
Putin insists (keeping his distance),
he and Donald were never a couple.
(Probably prefers younger, more supple?)
Nevertheless, as they unhitch,
Vlad say, "He never bride, he only my bitch!"

(Cf. John 3:29)

No. CXLVII: Plan B

Donald Trump promised

we'd live in boom times

(that's why we're tracking

herewith these rhymes)

booms it so happens 

may soon be prevailing

preceded by air
raid sirens wailing

though we are not

yet "tired of winning"

soon we may tire

of sirens whining

Trump of course 

will know no remorse

he'll retire to his
bunkered golf course

No. CXLVI: How I, Donald J. Trump, Do Bidness (labored thoughts)

Up 'til now if things turned fraught
on question of who sold who bought
I'd retort I will see you in court
and if anyone called my bluff
I would reply I will not take this guff
and promptly haughtily leave in a huff

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury
again I threaten fire and fury
watch it "dear Kim" or you'll be sorry*
better take heed better believe me
you push me I'll do a new bankruptcy
and break your pal Xi then where will you be

I will do whatever I hafta
end trade with the South get outta NAFTA
court all sort of nat'ral disasta
Did not I end Obamacare
Am not I graceful as Fred Astaire
Do not I have a head full of hair

I am making America grate
(spelling never was a strong trait)
if only I could re-rescue Kuwait
Maybe my program does not make sense
I called for a wall and can't build a fence
even I'm looking forward to President Pence

©McClatchyDC.com

I can't really deal with dead traitors on horses
what I have a feel for is building golf courses
(and marriage and dating between divorces)
I told you all I was no politician
let this then serve as an act of contrition
relax everyone unassume the position


When I began this I had no design
and not to make the point all too fine
I've had it enough I quit I resign
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*Canadian pronunciation "sorrie"