№ 880: Tulsa Or Bust

Trump’s Rally Could Be a ‘Perfect Storm’ for the Virus, Tulsa Officials Fear (Paywall)

President Trump will hold his first campaign rally in months on Saturday in Oklahoma, where infections are rising, and officials there are pleading with him to cancel or hold it outdoors.

DEAD END, OK (June 16) —

No masks for us.

We will not discuss it.

If God calls us home,

we will not be alone.

As a matter of fact,
our bags are packed,
we're rarin' to go,

so on with the show.

We will not heed official condemnings.

We follow Donnie. You DO KNOW we're lemmings?
Only in heaven will we be content.
A rather incredible end for a rodent.

№ 879: Really?

EREWHON (June 15) —

What if it’s already over?

What if we’re already dead?

What if reality’s all an illusion

and never happened instead

of happening here, in the now,

wherever that happens to be,

what if, in fact, everything's fiction,

a make-believe story, not actuality?

What if all you thought ever happened

happened in somebody's head?

What if you are a throwaway character

in a short story composed for a course 

taught by an alcoholic failed writer

(whose unfaithful spouse just filed for divorce)

at a for-profit college named for Betsy DeVos?

What if, in a world falling to tatters,

those were facts? Would it change matters

if the foregoing was what was real

and not Donnie's foul and floundering “deal”?

№ 843: Doubting Thomas Road

OUT TO LYNCHBURG, VA (April 26) —

What with the talk of cure in the air,

why is there no one speaking of prayer?

So many say they can pray gay away,

why don't they say, “Make corona go 'way”? 

Why isn't Falwell, that sinister minister,

pleading for aid from his supposed Listener?

But, I suppose, this is totally logical.

Doubtless, his thinking on things theological

is, “Heaven’s my home. I am not of the world.

I (and my Dad) can tell God where He's failed.

And then inform Him how things would done,

with Falwells in charge, Father AND Son.

Implement Jerry-mandered requirements,

pushing the Old Guy into retirement.”

№ 844: Doubting Thomas Road

OUT TO LYNCHBURG, VA (April 27) —
With all the talk of cures in the air,
why aren't there any mentioning prayer?
So many say they can pray gay away,
why not add, “God, chase corona away”? 

Why isn't Falwell (or other ministers)
pleading for aid from the Divine Listener?
This could, I suppose, be totally logical,
presuming his thinking on things theological:
is, “Heaven’s my home. I am not of the world.
I get to tell God where He's failed
And then inform Him how things would done,
with Falwells in charge, Father & Son.”
(Jerry-mandered Falwell requirements
pushing the Old Guy into retirement.)

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№ 687: Our Beginnings Always Know Our End (however much we try to pretend)

REALITY (September 19)

Everything dies.

All go extinct.

That is the name of the game.

Being born and evolving

are not problem solving.

No one and no thing's to blame.

All come and go.

It's only a show.
That it ends is not
a surprise. Or a blow.

And, like it or not,

there is no plot.

It's just a matter

of “to be or to not?”

(THAT rhetorical question

gave rise to aggression,

poison and swords,

and indiscretion.)

Forget your Scriptures,

lasses and laddies.
Don't waste your breath on

Magic Sky Daddies,

who, imperceivable and undeceivable,

believers believe achieve unachievable.

I think you will find

if you try to be kind,

you might achieve

some peace of mind.

Anyways, most of it's

just in your head.

(And Curly, “the hero”, 

wishes Jud dead.)