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THE WAY OF THE WORLD (July 9)

“Rulers” will always do as they please.

That's parcel and part of their glory.

Though their activities cause others unease. . .

Big deal. So what? End of story.

The rich and the famous are favored by God,

who, frankly, is like that Himself.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 
You cannot hoist them by their petard.

That is not good for your health.

If you try to apply workaday rules

to rulers and their lieutenants,

you'll find they have innumerable tools

to make things unpleasant for you and dependents.

Therefore you dare not do anything,

but hold your nose and kiss their ring.

🙈          🙉          🙊

Joseph Farris/New Yorker Cartoons

No. 240: Middle Class Dismissed

Such as it is, the middle class clings

to splintering rungs on a teetering ladder,

trying to rise by pulling. . .strings

with the people who actually matter.

The rungs below are covered in “slime”:

exotics of various races,

immigrants, poor, “committers of crime”,

conniving full time to replace us.

Meantime, at the top of the heap,

the one-percent puppetry masters

keep a few shepherds to keep the sheep

from banding together. Think of the disaster

if non-upper classes

in concert making things “fair”,

were to imagine that wee teaming masses,

could better allocate everyone's share,

instead of letting our “betters” decide

who has to walk, who gets a free ride.

Relax, relax, hold your outraged remarks.

I am not advocating anything Marxist.

I jest, I confess, I know we are blessed

to live in a land where you wealthy know best.

While we are stressed, we are not oppressed.

If  allowed to remain almost middle class, 
we will continue kissing your ass. 

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No. CXXXIV.i: EXTRA! Presidential Power (a statement from the desk of the President of the Untied States of America, President Donald J. Trump, President of the Untied States of America)

Since the office I work in an ellipse,

I've decided to cancel next Monday's eclipse.

If that does not work, it is in my powers

to order instead coast-to-coast showers.

If I can't stop the moon blotting the sun,

what is the point, where is the fun?

I'm here to end U.S. decline.

Just believe what I tell you and things'll be fine.

To those who oppose, I say watch where you tread:

I'm practicing saying, "Off with their heads!”