№ 607.1: EXTRA! Is That A Gun In Your Pocket (or are you just glad to see me?)

North Korea 'executes envoy to US' after Trump summit failures – report

South Korean paper claims Kim Hyok-chol has been killed and senior negotiator Kim Yong-chol subjected to forced labour

TRUMPLAND, May 31

And you wonder why
I love this guy
and moreover why
he loves me?
His folks for him
are glad to die
just as mine would for me.
(If I set them the task
and had someone ask.)
True blood brothers
are we, Kim and me.
True blood brothers are we.

Nothing can shame us.
We are both famous.
Those who dare blame us
are ignoramuses.
I get inspired
when I say, “You're fired!”
Kim follows suit
and actually shoots.

What now should I say
to Bolton and Pompeo?
“If you two can't deliver
some real diplo clout,
I'll have you shot
and taken out!?”

№ 607: Microcosmic

RAPA NUI, May 30

Making Moai on Rapa Nui

worked for a bit

the turned kerflooey

destroying society

which was a shame

for had they but waited

they’d have had Europe to blame.

One thing consistent

in human construction:

our unerring tendency

toward destruction.

№ 606.1: EXTRA! Trump This!

Trump says Russia helped elect him – then quickly backtracks

President tweeted he ‘had nothing to do with Russia helping me get elected’, then retracted it: ‘Russia did not help me’

TRUMPWORLD, May 30

When I said Russia helped me.

I really meant they did not.

Gott im Himmler above protect me.

It's part of a Democrat plot.

As a matter of fact

my Twitter was hacked

to make me seem senile.

(Plus Putin finding my
being venal congenial.)

№ 606: Get Real

IMAGINE, May 29

Given a choice, we ignore fact and pick fiction to an excessive extent.

That people prefer James Bond to George Smiley is not an accident.

Granted, of course, neither James nor George actually ever existed.

The point that I'd make: our preference for fake means reality is always resisted.

№ 605.1: EXTRA! Ho Hum (another day at the Oval Orifice)

Bannon described Trump Organization as 'criminal enterprise', Michael Wolff book claims

Former White House adviser says financial investigations will take down president in sequel to Fire and Fury

The former White House adviser Steve Bannon has described the Trump Organization as a criminal entity and predicted that investigations into the president’s finances will lead to his political downfall, when he is revealed to be “not the billionaire he said he was, just another scumbag”.

The startling remarks are contained in Siege: Trump Under Fire, the author Michael Wolff’s forthcoming account of the second year of the Trump administration.

THE NEW IMPROVED SWAMP, May 29

Now let us handle 

another Trump scandal.

(He'll say it's “very unfair”.)

Say what you will

about this shrill shill,

you have to admit

he's got some pair.

Away to the dumpster

with Cosa Trumpster.

Break out all the sump pumps.

Vaccinate everyone

against Trump Mumps.

Call it THE POX.

(Except on FOX.)

Crime, if you please,

is Trump's “family” disease.

Did Junior sneeze?

Did Eric wheeze?

Ivanka, as always,

cannot be appeased.

I mean Geez Louise,

high time we stopped 

being chumps

dump all the Trumps,

get off the fence,

with sad reluctance

inaugurate Pence

and speak of liberty

in the past tense. 

[updated 5/29/2019 12:40 pm]

№ 605: The Fault By Default

Exploding stars led to humans walking on two legs, radical study suggests

Scientists say surge of radiation led to lightning causing forest fires, making adaptation vital

It was the evolutionary leap that defined the species: while other apes ambled around on all fours, the ancestors of humans rose up on two legs and, from that lofty position, went on to conquer the world.

The benefits of standing tall in the African savannah are broadly nailed down, but what prompted our distant forebears to walk upright is far from clear. Now, in a radical proposal, US scientists point to a cosmic intervention: protohumans had a helping hand from a flurry of exploding stars, they say.

REGRETTABLY, May 28

It is not our fault: the fact that we're plods.

Nor was this caused by one of the Gods. 

Not Yahweh or Juno, not Venus or Mars.

The fault, dear Brutus, IS in our stars.

(I said all along, Shakespeare was wrong!)

№ 604: Closing Argument (a stump speech)

CAMPAIGN, May 27

There is but one way
for us to proceed.

Do it my way.
We will succeed.

I tell you the truth,
citing the facts.

All of the rest?
Political hacks.

I’m for the people,
not the “elites”,

not lazy slackers,
liars and cheats.

We are the good guys,
honest and just.

I am on your side,
in us we trust.

The solution is simple.
You and I know it.

Misfits and nitwits
of course oppose it.

You know, my friends,
what I represent.

My opponents
are incompetent.

My program is detailed,
completely thought out,
cost- and pain-free,
without a doubt.

As ye sow,
ye so shall reap.

So vote for me.
Then go back to sleep.

№ 603: “Loving” Vs Virginia (Charlottesville Update)

CHARLOTTESVILLE, 1865

It is not “a hate crime” when we oppose

people who hate us like all of THOSE
we have to remind who is the boss,
“bloody their nose” with superior force

as they'd do to us given the chance
in an alternative circumstance.

We have to remind them who wears the pants.

It isn't “hate” that motivates us.

It isn't even dislike.

Anyone who tells you it is

is likely a “BIG CITY”-type.

We know OUR LORD in heaven above

can see our hearts overflowing with love

for our families, love for our kin,
love for all Christians with HIS color skin.

What I am saying is only that I’m

certain THAT love is not a “crime”.