№ 614: Space “Race”

ORBITUARY, June 10

To colonize Mars will take money and gumption.
And the need to revisit a basic assumption.
Up for discussion among other topics:
will Martians be eating with forks or use chopsticks?
On the “red planet” will people banter in
American English or Chinese Mandarin?

As the U.S. and China race to the stars,
can we foretell the future on Mars?
In the U.S. this could be a very fraught subject,
if it turns out the Mars People's Republic.

While no one can say what the future may bring,
it will, doubtless, pain us to call Mars Huǒxīng [火星 ].
Would it ease our discomfort a little bit though,
if going forward we call Earth Dìqiú [地球]?

№ 438: Confirmed!

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And coming soon to a country very near you?
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Don't bother, they're here.

№ 342: Damn-O-Crazy (Populism Goes Pop)

Many in Russia still miss the Czar.
They can not help it.
That's just how they are.
Don't tell me Germans are all that much wiser.
Many, I'm certain,
would welcome the Kaiser.
And, if you say,
“Well, that's just their thing”,
consider France or Israel
where they'd chance a king.
What we are seeing is a world-wide distemper
among the masses who long for an Emperor.
From Iran to China to Ethiopia
people prefer their local dystopia.

Everywhen, everywhere the story's the same
“good” people seeking someone to blame
for their lot choosing a leader
who says there's a plot,
and promises life'll be easier
after — guess what? — the bad guys get shot.
Before we in U.S. go,
“Tsk, tut, hrump!”,
remember our wild card,
the Joker, Donald J. Trump.

No. CLXXXVII: Couplets There Appy

“...you look at what is happening in the United States...It’s just a matter of whether the republic is going to collapse a thousand years from now or five hundred years from now or is it going to collapse a week from next Thursday.”

— Mike Duncan author of The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic quoted in TIME

We think we're so clever,

we'll last forever.

That nothing could

is not understood.

Trump the pagan
won't make us “great again”.

Propelled by this clown,
we're goin' down.

Just think, in a blink
we'll be extinct.

The point of this “pome”?

E.T. phone Rome?

No. XLVIX: Quo Vadis?

POTUS with SCOTUS

is out to demote U.S.

to the status of a failed state.

All but Trump doters

hope enough voters

wake up before it's too late.

Congress in session

is mostly digression

from problems at hand.

Congress in recess

is an abscess,

heads buried deep in the sand.

Three government branches...

What are the chances

one of 'em will not come through?

POTUS/SCOTUS? No way!

The Congress? Oy vay!

I am not optimistic. Are you?