Friday, August 30, 2019

№ 672.1: EXTRA! Pox On The FOX

Trouble in paradise: Trump attacks Fox News – and Fox News hits back


Neil Cavuto becomes the latest network host to reject Trump’s criticism, saying: ‘My job is to cover you, not fawn over you’

HOODATHUNK (August 30)

What went together like bagels and lox?
Spoiler: the answer was Donnie and FOX.
The corpulent jerk and the fawning network,
disproved Aaron Sorkin's contention that lies cannot work.

But something's amiss with Trump-Murdoch bliss,
with FOX correspondents refusing to kiss
the looming ass of this sociopath.
Comme on dit en français, “It is to laugh.”

№ 672: Citizens Trumped

Trump administration ends automatic citizenship for some children of military, federal workers born abroad (Paywall)

Children born overseas to some American parents serving in the military or working for the federal government may no longer automatically claim U.S. citizenship if their parents had lived in the United States for less than five years, according to a new federal policy issued Wednesday.

THISISMYCOUNTRYLANDOFMYBIRTH (August 29)

You're an American citizen by natural-birth right
if your dad was born here, you're male and you're white.
This, clearly, is what the founders intended.
Had we stuck with their plan, it would have been splendid.

By white we mean north European (non-Finn) —
no Greeks, Spics, Eyeties nor Slavs allowed in.
We have in our country no place for Frenchmen,
Belgians, Balts, Balkans nor those not mentioned.

The Irish might be okay in service”,
but making them citizens would make us nervous.
And though we really do not like them much,
they surrendered New Amsterdam, so we'll treat the Dutch.

If we made a mistake letting slavery begin,
we also erred when we let Scandinavians in.
Though Nordic women are decidedly dishy,
something 'bout Vikings frankly feels fishy.

Like it on not, we made room for Scots  —
clever inventors. . .albeit crackpots.
The Welsh are fine down in the mines.
We don't mine them around if they're underground.

Austrians, though they speak German,
are somewhat Papist, we fear.
As, in fact, are so many Krauts.
However, they brew an awfully good beer.

We remain wary of people Hungarian.
And, if you please, please no Maltese.
(Who, by the way, tend a bit gay.)
It would be nice, if THEY ALL went away.

As for the Jews. . .always bad news.
Too often they win, too seldom they lose.
But, let us add, Zion has our respect.
We'll deal with Israel when they use our deck.

America is currently under attack.
No good erasing Liberty's plaque.
Trump's got the guts heretofore lacking.
He'll send both statue and immigrants packing.

Thursday, August 29, 2019

№ 671.1: EXTRA! Want Ad


NEVERLAND  (August 29)

WANTED TO BUY
Would-be dictator seeks to buy island
something suitably large
big enough for an oversize ego
where I'd be completely in charge
must not have states, legislatures or courts
though I would not mind a few golf resorts
Will ignore law and codicil strictures
P.S. can't read so send lotsa pictures

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№ 671: Family Resemblance?

Rumors seem to stem from a 2016 lawsuit alleging an infestation at Trump National Doral brought by New Jersey insurance executive 

HOUSEKEEPING (August 28)

(with apologies to Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green)






Bed bugs aren't creeping
and neither are many other vermin
in Trump Hotels and apartment blocks
and if they are I'll change the locks on them
it's not pleasant keeping
my so many so empty beds
where I myself may play around
whenever whoever's my wife's out of town
no woman I want can dare turn me down
I sleep with whomever I want
sleep with whomever I want

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Wednesday, August 28, 2019

№ 670: Donnie Exposes Himself (what lies within)

JUST A LONELY LITTLE BOY, ME (August 27)

It is easy to think I'm incoherent
if you listen to what I say.
It is not simply that my psyche's aberrant,
teeth and tongue get in the way
of my deep thoughts gleaned o'er the years
having nothing to do with castration fears
(which I've never had  ever at all!
I prefer to refrain from exposing my balls
by crossing my arms boldly before me),
both mom and dad completely adored me
of all of my siblings I was their favorite
I say this in passing, not to belabor it,
what I mean to convey (please, mommy, don't shove me),
all that I crave is someone to love me.

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as a protest against his visit, in Parliament Square in London, England,
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

№ 669: Goodness Gracious

Why do people do evil much of the time,
and claim they're inspired by THE DIVINE?
Although, I suppose, it isn't that odd —
since we are blessed with a tolerant God,
who, it is said, forgives any sin
so long as the sinner shows deference to Him.

There, therefore, is never a need to repent.
Whatever was done was with His consent.
Nor is there a need to feel any shame
because, as you know, the Devil's to blame.

(Frank Loesser said it better.)

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Monday, August 26, 2019

№ 668: Trump's Waltz


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TRUTHBETOLD (August 25)

(with apologies to Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green)

I'm the greatest villain of all time!
Who is Bluebeard?
(Nobody!)
Who is Nero?
(Nobody!)
Who is Jack the Ripper?
(Nobody!)
Ahahaha!
Who's the swine-iest swine in world?
(Donald Trump! Donald Trump!)
Who's the dirtiest dog in this well-funded whirl?
(Donald Trump! Donald Trump!)
Husband of Melanie. Father of brutes,
who will landfill for me anyone saying my hair isn't cute!
(It's cute!)
Ahahahah!
Who's the slimiest rat in the pack?
(Donald Trump! Donald Trump!)
Who's unlovable?
(You!)
Who's unlivable?
(You!)
Whose existence is quite unforgivable?
(You!)
Who would seize little children 
and send them direct to the dump?
(Direct to the dump!)
Humpty Dumpty,
Donald Trump!

All mortals envy me. 
Yet better, perhaps, for Trump to have had less ambition. 
Oh fame, fame, thou glittering bauble.
In searching for thee, what fame have I not lost?
No little children love me. 
I'm told they play at Government and the strongest always chooses to be Nancy. 
They force the baby to be Trump.
The BABY! 
That's where the canker g-naws.
NO!
By Diet Coca-Cola!
NO!
Who's the swine-iest?
(Swine-iest!)
The doggiest?
(Doggiest!)
The slimiest?
(Slimiest!)
Who's the creepiest creep in the world?
(Donald Trump! Donald Trump!)
Who's dispensable?
(You!)
Reprehensible?
(You!)
Who's behavior is quite indefensible?
(You!)
Who's the crawlingest, cruelest, crummiest, plump-iest schlump?
(Plump-iest schlump!
What a prize what a joy!)
Mother Trump's obscene nasty boy.
(The scourge of DC!)
Just happens to be 
DARN old
Trump! Trump!
Trump Trump
Trump Trump
Trump Trump
Trump Trump
So low!
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Saturday, August 24, 2019

№ 667.2: EXTRA! God Is A Joke

  • President made initial claim about policies towards Beijing
  • Many observers questioned president’s mental state
INSOUCIANCE, ID (August 24)






Let me be clear, I don't think I'm God.
(Though could be God thinks he's me?)
The “Almighty” maybe created Creation
but I was elected by an ENTIRE nation,
bigger and greater than ancient Israel,
which never was a REALLY big deal.
He can keep his heavenly bower.
I prefer my fire power.

Sorry my statement caused a commotion.
I don't want to be God. Who needs a demotion?

№ 667.1: EXTRA! Whipping The Bosporus (now that IS preposterous)


Trump Lashes Out at China, Sending Markets Falling

Reacting to Beijing’s announcement of more tariffs, president raises U.S. tariffs, says ‘we don’t need China’ and takes fresh aim at Fed’s Jerome Powell

President Trump said he “hereby ordered” U.S. companies doing business in China to explore relocating their operations. . .

DELUSIONAL AS USUAL (August 23)






 I hereby order the sun to shine
 twenty-five hours a day.
 When it refuses, I'll say, We'll see.
 I always have it my way.
 I hold my breath until I turn orange
 and mommy says, Oh dear, oh dear.
 Just you wait 'til your daddy gets home,
 I ken he'll orange your rear.
 But daddy did not, saying, Du kleiner Rotz,
 you really do have some style.
 Here, have a million, you little villain.
 I think I'm going senile.

 Roy Cohn taught me to always attack 
 but not to forget to stop for a snack.
 It makes you hungry  being a jerk.
 I make it look easy, but it is hard work.

Friday, August 23, 2019

№ 667: Theme Form Commodus*

COLONIA TRUMPONIANA (August 22)

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(with apologies to Ernest Gold and Pat Boone)

Greenland is mine God gave Greenland to me
Like me he sees Greenland ice free
so when the glaciers melt I can dig out the belt
of minerals that China will envy

So understand Greenland belongs to me
I own Greenland is how it has to be
For I am just the man to cause the tides to rise
as God knows I am never wrong

So understand Greenland belongs to me
I own Greenland is how it has to be
For I am just the man to cause a mountain slide
as God knows I am never wrong
I'll make Greenland my own
I wanna buy I'll buy to make Greenland my own
Though Greenlanders cry Greenland is mine
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*Encyclopædia Britannica: Commodus

Thursday, August 22, 2019

№ 666: Making Sausage

Danish PM surprised and disappointed over cancelled Trump visit

US president faces criticism for calling off Denmark trip after he is told Greenland not for sale

DONNIEWANTLAND (August 21)

(with apologies to Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough)

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Denmark loan shark
both you'll note rhyme with Deutsche Mark
which next to the dollar
was my favorite currency

until Euro
which rhymes with Politburo
arose to eclipse it
and annoy the hell out of me

If you are an alpha male
as marvelous as I
you can demand a Greenland sale 
or know the reason why 
I want it so I could cry

Denmark mean land
refuses to sell me Greenland
and so I will not visit them
which I hope annoys their Queen

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

№ 665: Self-explanatory


DONNIE EVEN THINK ABOUT IT (August 20)

I'm the least racist person
you'll ever meet.
I treat EVERYONE equal
beneath my feet.

I'm the least sexist person
who you could know.
Love bitches kennel club 
votes best in show”.

I'm also the smartest.
I have the best hair.
In kindergarten I had
best clean underwear.

I'm so together,
so set apart,
clearly superior,
state-of-the-art.

Even God wishes
he had my flair.
He especially envies
my humongous pair.

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

№ 664: Hopeless?

EVERYWHERE (August 19)

Can we — PLEASE! — stop speaking of “race”?
Really, there is NO. SUCH. THING!
Skin color, ethnicity, language, religion.
Nationality! Culture! Those distinctions
that do have some meaning.
Albeit slight, despite what you're feeling.

But were we to recognize “race” has no place,
that still would not heal our schisms.
Plus we would need to invent a new word
to replace what today's called “racism”.

Crick here

Monday, August 19, 2019

№ 663: From Donnie Greatest Fits: Hit The Road In Greenland (not available in stores)

(with apologies to Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer)

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Bye-bye, glacier,
time you hit the road in Greenland.
I'll erase yer
just shut up and eat some cod.

Melt down, glacier.
Time for climate change in Greenland.
In your face, you're
dealing with a demi-god.

You should at least assume
I'm nuttier than any loon.
Gotta say it looks like doom.
A disaster.

Bye-bye, glacier,
time you hit the road in Greenland.
I'll erase yer.
I think I'm divine but I'm really a kind toad.
Time you hit the road.

Friday, August 16, 2019

№ 662.2: EXTRA! It's Not Easy Being Greenland

Danish politicians dismiss US president’s apparent interest in island as ‘hopefully a joke’

THE GREAT WHITE NORTH (August 16)


When I buy Greenland, we'll have Canada cornered,
surrounded by us and the ice,
which someone told me's supposed to melting.
A Maple Leaf state would be nice.
(It'd be just one state. I hafta inform ya
they have fewer people than California.)
With Arctic Ocean now fit for sailing,
think of the shipping. Think of the whaling.
I see my flag proudly unfurled. 
Canada, Greenland. TOMORROW THE WORLD.
I'll be showered with praise, inundated with thanks.
I'll borrow the money from Deutsche Bank.


№ 662.1: EXTRA! You've Seen One Coyote. . .

The poison-filled traps are used by the federal government to kill coyotes, foxes and other animals for farmers and ranchers

TRUMPWORLD (August 16)



I don't know about you but I'm horrified
by this waste of perfectly good cyanide,
which caused a fuss about animal slaughter.
Why not use it instead on the Mexican border?

№ 662: A Penile Pollution

Republican Steve King: if not for incest and rape ‘would there be any population left?' 

FLYOVER (August 15)

Steve King represents
the people of Iowa —
part of the country we 
dismiss as flyover.
He condemns abortion
and says for his portion
without incest and rape
we'd be in bad shape.
Even insisting
we'd cease existing.

Who could get at
a downside at that?
THAT, Goddammit,
'ud be good for the planet.
A healthy environment
requires our retirement.

Thursday, August 15, 2019

№ 661.2: EXTRA! Undesirable Number 1, Undesirable Number 2

Todd Starnes of Fox Nation also called migrants a ‘rampaging horde of illegal aliens’ less than two weeks after El Paso attack

ALIENS IN FOX HOLES (August 15)

Who's undesirable alien one?
Fact check suggests Murdoch and Sons.
First to the U.K. then to the U.S.
these Aussie bastards corrupt free press
and the airwaves and go on a spree
criticizing any diversity
allowing accents beyond Australian,
which many consider horribly alien.

And, so, who is undesirable two?
If you guessed the Murdochs, well good for you.

№ 661.1: EXTRA! GE Willikers

GE Is New Target of Madoff Whistleblower

Harry Markopolos releases report on GE’s accounting, claiming its cash situation is far worse than disclosed and GE needs to boost insurance reserves. Company says claims are false, misleading.

The group’s research indicates that GE is short on working capital—a key measure of liquidity—and that its cash situation is far worse than disclosed in its regulatory filings.

THE SWAMP WHERE WE LIVE (August 15)

Will GE come to DC
hat-in-hand beggin'?
Their hired-gun spokesman
was once Ronald Reagan,
another fraud, fatally flawed,
who somehow Republicans still hold in awe.

Not that I wish to be seem a smarty,
but weren't Dems once the dumb racist party
of colluders and crooks
cooking the books
and treating voters
as gullible shnooks?

Everything changes, 
still everything stays.
Like Archie and Edith sang,
“those were the days”.

№ 661: Short-term Thinking (a speculation)

UNTIED STATES OF DONNIE (August 14)

Would it sound bitter
if I said that Twitter
by forcing short message length
encourages nonsense
and, therefore, in consequence
stupidity's mistaken for strength?

If it weren't for Twitter
Donnie could not have glittered.
Without Twitter he'd not have prevailed.
If forced to think
with pen and ink,
he'd be just another junk male.

A Page Six tyrant,
Murdoch compliant,
sexist, rich, arrogant prat,
whose dirty nose
left him exposed,
got him indicted.
That would've been that.

Will there be a sequel
to “created equal”?
(Providing there's still an environment.)
The way that it looks
we just might close the books
as notion and nation take early “retirement”.

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

№ 660: Another Late Night Musing Over Big Macs And Fries

THE VERY WHITE HOUSE (August 13)

Should I ask Ivanka, “Would be okay
if I give a pardon to my pal O. J.,
tell Rudy attitude-y, ‘Hey there, Rudolf,
bring me THE JUICE’, whup his black ass at golf.”?

His problem. . .O. J. got too big for his britches.
Nobody told him you don't kill ex-bitches.
First (maybe) no-necks, “Hey, lady, lay off!
Then you send Cohen to pay them off.

I always thought O. J. was nice. . .
cudda got off. . .with my advice.
Bribery, okay, maybe not my best plan.
But murder's a worse one.
Whatever,
you don't EVER 
do it in person!

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

№ 659.1: EXTRA! Colorazul

It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sky in Rocky Mountains 

Rainwater samples collected across Colorado and analyzed under a microscope contained a rainbow of plastic fibers, as well as beads and shards.

IN THE CHOKING MOUNTAIN AIR (August 13)

(with apologies to John Denver)

. . .the Colorado Rocky Mountains cry
Now it's rainin' plastic from the sky
if we follow Donnie's plan we're gonna see the eagle die
Rocky Mountains cry
As the Colorado Rocky Mountains die
with oil pipelines and plastic in the sky
Donnie's friends make all things end, profit is the reason why
Rocky Mountains cry
Rocky Mountains cry
Rocky Mountains cry
Rocky Mountains cry
Rocky Mountains cry
Rocky Mountains cry


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№ 659: The Way We're Knot

TCCN EXCLUSIVE!

Ancient Writing Revealed
BY TUSKER SNARLSON, Special Corresrodent

NEANDERLAND (August 12)

Theatrical Cement Company News (TCCN), the parent company of The Daily Doggerel, has been given exclusive access to an ancient sample of writing discovered in a Neanderland cave known to have been inhabited exclusively by Neanderthals prior to the Homo Sapien invasion.

Dr. Damon Browridge of National Neanderthal University in Neander City, Neanderland who led the discovery team told TCCN exclusively, “This changes everything. It proves the so-called, self-styled ‘people’ of ‘Europe’ have no right to be here.”

What follows is a translation from the ancient Neanderthal text discovered on two woolly mammoth tusks in the cave.

TUSK1:
Neander is Neanderthal land.
Sapiens go back to Africa.
Where you come from is where you belong.
Both you and we will be happier.
Abandon your plan to claim our land and replace us
by sending young males (and all that entails)
to breed with our girls and debase us.

TUSK 2:
If you must roam, leaving your home,
you should leave us alone, maybe head east
and seek to replace Denisovans,
who, though they be our cousins,
THEY breed by the dozens
and at family gatherings disgrace us.
Therefore, perhaps, you Homo Saps.,
being good chaps,
could take them on and you both collapse
leaving all things, both great and small
as God intended, Neanderthal.

Monday, August 12, 2019

№ 658: Albion Seeing You


Boris Johnson’s Brexit strategy is imperilling centuries of common purpose. It can’t be allowed to succeed 

DAMNALOT (August 11)

There will always be an England
though it might be rather smal.
An England that may not extend
an inch beyond The Mall.
At one end, THE PALACE
with its Victoria Memorial.
At the other, Charles I
(whose end was rather gorier),
sitting on a horse beneath
Nelson's tow'ring column.
An effect, that when viewed,
leaves one feeling solemn.
Also nearby can be seen
Uganda's High Commission.
Imposing on our English “green”.
Who gave them permission?
Feeling peckish? If one does,
one can get a snack.
Pret A Manger is located
behind Admiralty's back.

This other Eden, demi-heaven
daily gets less English.
We must take our England back,
all foreignness extinguish.
This is our land, our England,
we Englishmen proclaim,
1066. Shakespeare. THE QUEEN!
Plus things we needn't name.
There still will be an England
when the E.U. is long dead.
There will always be an England.

[In dead King Charlie's head!]

Friday, August 9, 2019

№ 657: Backward Trumpy Soldiers

DEAD END (August 8)

Christians anxious for end of days
see Donnie as John the Baptist.
In fact, that is the soul reason why
they ignore his “faith” is not practiced,
Donnie does seem like Satan
but they think he will hasten
Jesus's speedy return
when He tells them, “Determine
which of you vermin
I chasten and which I burn.”
This delicious prospect they find so enthralling,
they deem saving souls no longer their calling.
That is the reason in a nutshell,
there's always a housing shortage in hell.

Thursday, August 8, 2019

№: 656: Announce Of Prevention

EVERYWHERE (August 7)

Adolf, they say, was the sweetest of babies.
As, they say, was Mao Zedong.
Initial impressions give scant indication
of what in our time we become.
Caligula, as his dad's legion's mascot,
was a totally lovable tyke.
It was not until later Romans discovered
what he was actually like.
In infancy, Idi always seemed sunny.
Attila the Baby was a real honey.

Babies, as babies, are sweet and adorable.
Some become adults, at best, deplorable.
There is a vaccine that can prevent rabies.
Perhaps it is time we stop making babies?

Wednesday, August 7, 2019

№ 655: Beggars Belief

Charities say scheme will make beggars even more vulnerable and open to exploitation

Jimmy Jansson, a Social Democrat local councillor, said the scheme, which came into force on 1 August after nearly a year of legal delays, was aimed at “bureaucratising” begging to “make it more difficult” for people to ask for money.

TAKING STOCK HOME (August 6)

Those Socialist Swedes are at it again,
messing with the economy.
In any properly free-market country,
beggars are given complete autonomy.
They pay no fees, they do as they please,
in summer they sweat, in winter they freeze.
They don't have to beg if they don't want to eat.
Their freedom's complete. They can die on the street
if they want and their wants are so many.
If they ask for spare change, do not them any.
Let them rot on the spot as Jesus intended.
If you give them money, they'll only spend it
in four-star restaurants and deluxe hotels.
Giving money to poor folk never ends well.
Eating, they breed, creating more needy,
making our cities even more seedy.
But having them pay for the right to panhandle
can only lead to corruption and scandal.
While “post-birth abortion” would surely thwart them,
it's more Christian — and cheaper — to just deport them.
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Tuesday, August 6, 2019

№ 654: Late Night “Presidential” Musings


THE VERY WHITE HOUSE (August 5)





Calling me racist. . .a Democrat ploy.
You want the facts, just ask the boy
who gives me the shine he calls soopa fine.
Maybe some day I should slip him a dime?

Okay, “perhaps”, I do not love Hispanics.
In the real estate business I've found
when they move in everyone panics.
Even Jews choose not to want them around.
I got nothing against them, as I am God's witness.
The simple truth is they're bad for business.
They are the problem. I'm not to blame.
They gotta return from whence they came.

How can anyone say I'm antisemitic
when my daughter's a super hot Jew?
So, I suppose, are my grandkids (her children),
whose names I wish I knew.
They call me “Grampy”. They're really great kids.
I'd probably love them if they weren't Yids.

Monday, August 5, 2019

№ 653: WSJ Opposes Over Regulation

737 MAX Safety Tests Covering Increasingly Remote Failure Risks

Reviews of grounded Boeing jet are expanding beyond the automated flight-control system behind two crashes

A portion of the ongoing testing and analysis is delving into extremely remote but potentially catastrophic problems. . .

It took one of the pilots [in the Boeing flight simulator] 16 seconds to identify and react to the malfunction, significantly longer than current FAA certification rules and safety guidelines permit. . . if an airline crew confronted such a problem—even though chances of it happening are extremely small—the consequences could be catastrophic.

BUSINESS AS USUAL (August 4)

Come on, be practical,
what are that the odds
that another one's likely to crash?
And if one does
it will likely be
due to a circumstance
beyond Boeing's control.
A poorly-trained foreign pilot's mistake.
Boeing's an icon.
GIVE ME A BREAK!

You really want Boeing,
a truly great firm,
to suffer a stock market crash?
Or to go under
and U.S. investors 
to lose hundreds of bundles,
hard American cash?
To say nothing of jobs.
Poor working slobs
build these technical wonders.
Must investors (and workers)  
be made to pay for a
a series of management blunders?

Management acted in total good faith
rushing this jet to the market.
Carriers loved it mostly because
pilots already knew how to park it
and fly it since it flew the same
as previous planes with this number.
Except it didn't and the software was faulty.
For that you think the firm should go under?

Some days it rains, some days it sunny.
Take this to the bank: Boeing. Makes. Money.
If someone dies because they make a mistake. . .
what can we say? Those are the breaks.

Friday, August 2, 2019

№. 652: The Protocols Of The Elders Of Single Cell Organisms

UNDER THE MICROSCOPE (August 1)

People: a resource.
They are good to eat.
But we should not eat them all.
Eating them all could, I think, defeat
our greater purpose. . .
which I cannot recall.
And since I've forgotten,
let's eat 'em. They're rotten,
they serve no purpose at all.

Thursday, August 1, 2019

№ 651: Life On Mars?

MARS (Aquarius 16, 218)

Living on Mars would probably be —
what is the word? — impossible!?
And if we try it, likely we'll find it
is not in the slightest fossil-able.
Later explorers — while also failing —
will find not a trace on Mars detailing
our presence there which proved unavailing.

Mars' population, after migration,
would suffer an excess of radiation.
Mars has so little atmosphere
that the sun's rays there are more severe,
hard on the skin so you have to stay in.
And radiation can cause mutation.
This cosmic bombardment out of proportion
would, therefore, require frequent abortion,
lest born-on-Mars three-headed monsters
return to Earth as human impostors.
Though they could be called related mammalians,
Earthlings might see them as illegal aliens.

For what it's worth, I suggest life on Earth
has evolved to expect “earthy gravity.
Mars's, I've heard, is about one-third.
Living in that would lead to depravity.
Plus, no doubt, a degree of light-headedness
and, I predict, outrageous indebtedness
due to the cost for Mars's equipping.
Amazon Prime does not offer free-shipping.

And may I allude to the problem of food?
On Mars there are no corner delis.
DoorDash® delivery is out of the question.
Seven months' transit would cause indigestion.
Then there is the problem of time.
Mars sols have extra seconds*.
And a Mars year has many more sols**,
thus mussing up ongoing connections.

Living on Mars is not in our path.
I mean, come on. You can't do the math.
Nor breathe the air there.
There is none to spare there.

These are merely a few of the bars
suggesting we'll never colonize Mars.

Gizmodo.com: Humans Will Never Colonize Mars
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*Martian day is 37 Earth minutes longer than Earth's.
**Martian year is 686.98 Earth days or 668.5991 Martian sols.



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