New World Order

The only good Republican is an ex Republican.

Have we learned nothing about democracy?

We have completely achieved idiocracy.

There is one man king of hippocracy.

Then there are the enablers.

The democracy betrayers.

The Republican gamblers.

Who merely kowtow to their payers.

Those Republican phonies should say their prayers.

Because somehow democracy still prevails.

While the lawyered up despot fails.

And our country goes through travails.

America was great before he took office.

Let him disappear up his own orifice.

Let us not let him take our flag as his symbol.

This phony should be shamed and ridiculed.

 

 Big Gretch

Big Gretch I do not begrudge.

Did the best with her hand yo.

Stop taking her down though.

She is trying to protect us.

Big Gretch is not the enemy.

Please just let her be.

Do not compare her to Stalin.

She is trying to protect you and me.

Big Gretch has been oppressed.

Big Gretch has been threatened.

Big Gretch stood up to the worst of them.

Pretty sure you know who I mean.

Big Gretch has good intentions.

Big Gretch is not a wretch.

Are you all listening?

Big Gretch is doing her best.

 Is the turkey done yet?

The turkey was slaughtered.

But he keeps on squawking.

He is an ugly duckling.

Truly sickening.

Is anyone listening?

He is not fit to rule this roost.

He is not fit to watch the flock.

He just runs amok.

Forgets he is a lame duck.

He loves to show his feathers.

He has no camouflage.

If you cannot see you must be blind.

Our country is the last thing on his mind.

He is the supreme turkey.

Commander in dis-belief.

Please wake up America. 

There is so much at stake.

 

 

 Callow shallow marshmallow.

Sitting on a cloud so hollow.

You have no backbone.

Your soul is out on loan.

You repugnant toad.

Cannot bare the load.

Of what is owed.

To Americans suffering.

So you sit on your perch.

In desperate search.

For a ticket out of here.

But that road is very clear.

Stop being a coward.

Look at all you devoured.

With no remorse.

You ugly show horse.

Move on to your next big score.

Stop trying to exploit us more.

You are a goddamned rotten shame.

And I do not know who is to blame.

 

 For love of Michigan 2020

When did we become so divided.

We have enough food and water provided.

Though for sure there are those who are suffering. 

We do not need to be always fighting.

There are forces trying to pull us apart. 

In the great state of Michigan.

The best state in the midwest.

I must profess.

Michigan I am proud to call my home.

I am sure I am not alone.

Only when we get rid of the hate.

Can we truly be great.

Let us start at square one.

We all love Michigan.

Forget the distraction.

We have one direction.

 

It's so good for the country that Donald Trump lost.

It will take years and years to UN-do the cost.

Our nation was divided even before.

But he ramped it up to whatever suited him more.

He fomented hate to those were hurting.

That he did not actually care was the worst thing.

His legacy is a shit stain on democracy.

That so many were fooled is appalling.

He still won't even admit defeat.

 Makes all Republican phonies kiss his feet.

So many people across the globe breathed a sigh of relief.

That we vanquished that monster who had no belief.

Donald Trump influenced so many,

Though his actual convictions are petty.

The wolf in sheep's clothing.

Deep down full of self-loathing.

 

 

 I hope I stop caring.

When this is all over.

There ain't no four leaf clover.

I'll stop caring about abuse of power.

This political circus.

Makes me so nervous.

This guy wants to put his enemies in jail.

Our democracy long since derailed.

I am baffled by those who follow him.

Literally to him everyone is a victim.

I hope I stop caring. 

When this is all said and done.

If he comes out victorious.

I will be appalled.

All of his enemies will get a call.

Believe me heads will roll.

This is America's worst nightmare.

An amoral, shallow bigot.

In control of the spigot.

Of those who survive and those who perish.

When will those loyal to him.

Realize he is less than human?

He is a sham and a con man.

He is the worst nightmare we can imagine.

Holy War

He uses faith as a sword.

To stab those who believe.

Why do so many not see

What is really up his sleeve?

He has no core belief.

He is an abomination.

He sows division.

With immaculate precision.

So many have died due to his negligence.

So many have died due to his indifference.

Denying the pandemic.

Flouting the Constitution.

I guess those who have faith in him.

Do not realize he has no faith.

He is just a con artist.

Surprising they can not listen.

I solemnly swear if there is a God.

And yes I believe there is a God.

Donald Trump is not his favorite.

I just wish He would give us a sign.

 

 

 Super Spreader

Walking contagion.

Lying to the nation.

Literally killing us.

Who is still blind?

The death threat is real.

But he does not feel.

Disease is what he brings.

He does not care about others suffering.

He has no heart or convictions.

I do not understand why people listen.

This is the worst we could imagine.

A leader of this nation with no compassion.

Stop playing the partisan card.

This repellent beast has no regard.

 

 

 

 

 

He is Darth Vader and the Grinch put together.

But even those guys at one time had a heart.

I thought Dick Chaney was as low as we could go.

Donald Trump is almost worse though.

 

I have no sympathy for this monster.

So quick to replace Ruth Bader Ginzburg.

I wish I were confident he will get what he deserves.

But somehow this big ugly bird always gets the worm. 

 

Donald Trump got Covid from willful ignorance.

From lying to the American people about the threat.

From negligence and disinformation. 

Why does this fool control our nation?

 

 

Ruth Badur Ginzburg just passed.

Heartless soulless Republicans

Have no morals or class.

They only care about winning.

 

These callow liars are sickening.

Please God let there be a reckoning.

The Constitution is crumbling.

Despite Republicans grumbling.

 

Mitch McConnell has no morals.

Donald Trump has no scruples.

It is all manipulation.

A serious threat to our nation.

 

 It is an indisputable thing.

This administration is posturing.

The emperor has no clothes.

And finally this phony lie is exposed.

 If there were a benevolent God.

He would not take pleasure in his creation.

Rather in the realization.

Of his achievement.

If there were a benevolent God.

He would not mind our flaws.

But he would want us to obey his laws.

Do all good Christians do that now?s

We would be total idiots.

To  think we knew who we was.

Or what he wanted.

But here we are.

False priests talking about morals.

Liars talking about the truth.

How did we get here?

 

 

 Trump's  prayer

Let us pronounce a cure. 

Although we are not sure.

Let us submit to ignorance.

Let us remember not to care.

 Let us give praise unto me.

Let us make them submit.

Let us be clear I do not give a shit.

But I love to transmit.

 I have no feelings for anyone.

Except myself my beautiful self.

I love what the mirror reveals.

You have no idea what it conceals.

 I am mighty and all powerful.

I am the king with no crown.

I pass my greatness on.

Nepotism is my renown.

 

 

 

 

 

 De-evolution is real

Devo were the real punks.

You want to talk about the real junk?

You gotta beat it till it's thick.

Their genius was no trick.

Their first album is without peer.

De-evolution is prescient.

We humans are insignificant.

Devo laid it down.

Made us all look like clowns.

De-evolution is real.

They saw through it all.

De-evolution began.

But we weren't paying attention man!

And now we are seeing the cost.

With Devo we were never lost.

 

This country is broken

For the wages of sin,
Our President is all in.
With his callow toady Republicans.
And his money-grubbing evangelical whores.
What's it all for?

This country is broken.
The President does not steer the ship.
Into anything but doom and hippocracy.
He has already burned the flag of democracy.
It is about time his followers were awoken.

He is a snake oil salesman.
He fashions himself a deity.
He is full of false piety.
He holds the Bible like a sword.
But he has never prayed to the Lord.

The President has no core belief.
But he uses Christianity as fodder.
Like lambs to the slaughter.
To arouse angry white people.
For whom prejudice is a steeple.

The meek will never inherit the Earth.
But he shouts it out for all he is worth.
That is the myth he likes to promote.
For him to appeal to the downtrodden.
Is the sickest of all jokes.

I have fallen into a post-punk hole.
It's the only thing that soothes my soul.
Wire, Magazine, Gang of Four.
Devo, Pil, and Killing Joke.
Early Ultravox for sure.

The post-punks got it right.
Even back then they saw the blight.
Revolution, fuck our institutions.
The government meant to exploit.
In England and the United States.

Everything that disturbed them then.
Has risen to a level well above ten.
Racism, sexism, homophobia.
Can't we all just get along?
In this global world we all belong.

Pere Ubu were above the curve.
Pere Ubu had the nerve.
Pere Ubu were post-punk
Before there was punk.

Post punks hit me where I live.
Their vision always inspires.
They give me the food I require.
Though they started in the late 70's.
For me they are the remedy.

Controlled chaos


Controlled chaos.
That's what she called me.
She said everything I did was for a reason.
Then she created the worst of treasons.
She knew me through and through.

This girl did a number on me.
She didn't think twice.
Or even three times.
She knew all the angles.
She was no angel.

Math and repetition.
Create precision.
There is always an extra piece to the puzzle.
I was just an extension.

She fucked me over.
Again and again.
She was never my friend.
She knew how to pretend.

Yet I had a soft spot for her.
And she did for me.
There was never betrayal.
She just did not care about allegiance.

For M. Bugard

Your head is so far up your ass.
That you can't see the grass.
That lies at your feet.
Who are you trying to defeat?

You get off on your diatribes.
Like Trump on his tweets.
Full of hatred and self-serving.
We all know about your learning.

But please M. Bugard stop thinking you're better.
You got all society's flaws down to the letter.
But don't you have a few of your own?
Or is that too far out of your comfort zone?

Black lives matter revisited

Black lives matter.
Why did it take so long for us to realize?
I do not blame Donald Trump for racism.
He just loves to foment hate.
So sad we came to this.

Black lives matter.
I had to write a poem.
Black lives matter.
I had to show em.

I hope you don't think I'm a poser.
Black lives surely matter.
I am glad people finally care.
Though there is much rancor.

Black lives matter.
If you do not acknowledge.
You are a hippocrite.
You are a piece of shit.

Am I a symptom or am I the disease?

Our world is so fractured.

Social media communicates and obfuscates.

I am in a hall of mirrors

And everything I see is ugly.

Am I a symptom or am I the disease?

We see a leader with no convictions.

We see brutalization of peaceful protesters.

Some or most of us are appalled.

We see our democracy crumbling.

Am I a symptom or am I the disease?

We have become so divided.

But I guess we always were.
Through George Floyd.

I hope we will be united.
Am I a symptom or am I the disease?

He loves to double down.
Don't know the difference.
Between a smile and a frown.
All news is fake news if you do not agree.

 He's a repulsive false preacher.
A truly vile creature.
His best foot forward
Is to repress his critics.

He is a slimy little worm.
Wish he was never confirmed.
Especially since he cheated.
He was never popular.

Still we go on with this charade.
With the king who was not self-made.
These are the worst of times.
His are the worst of crimes.

Beautiful day in Michigan

Beautiful day in Michigan.
Sometimes we have them.
All the elements coalesce.
Sun wind and sky make us glad to be alive.

Beautiful day in Michigan.
Hope you are all listening.
I love our great state.
We live in the land of plenty.

Beautiful day in Michigan.
The Motor City survives.
We are the land of abundance.
We only need to unify.

We are all hoarders

We are all hoarders.
Because we don't know the borders.
Between Today and Tomorrow.
When will end all our sorrow.

We are all hoarders.
Saving up for never.
Any future date.
Will have to wait and wait.

We are all hoarders.
Storing up our reserves.
We allow ourselves any food.
Whatever it takes to kill the mood.

We are all hoarders.
Not the first responders.
But we are looking for answers.
We're just wannabe belongers.

The River

The river calls for the living as it calls for the dead.
The river is for taking and giving.
We do not say the river is a monster.
That would be ludicrous.

The river is just nature.
Neither lover nor hater.
The river does not care for sentiment.
The river just fulfills its intention.

The river is older than humans.
The river is true to itself.
Unlike we selfish vain fools.
Who only ever think of ourselves.

The emperor has no clothes

The emperor has no clothes.
I mean, they're hand me downs.
He squandered all his fortunes.
He lost more than he ever earned.

He is a tragic Greek figure.
Except he is comedic.
Because he never takes things seriously.
Unless it affects him personally.

Hubris is his sigil.
With he guards with vigil.
I wish I were watching a Greek play.
Instead of this idiotic display.

But we can't go to the theater.
Can't even get near.
Any human being for fear.
Of transmission.

The danger would be far less.
If the emperor had seen fit to lead.
Instead of just thinking about his plate.
And what would make him look great.

I create my own happiness.
I am a master of it.
I always know the right thought.
Can always find it all for naught.

In the midst of misery I find hope.
But as life takes a good turn.
I prepare to watch it all burn.
I create my own dark shadow.

I create my own unhappiness.
There is nothing worse the mind conceives.
In the end it is not what happens to us.
It is what we believe.

Poem from the end of the world

We are all coping the best we can.
We do not socialize.
We do not even touch.
We are isolated and distant.

We are on dangerous ground.
Pronouncements are not sound.
If we listen to the President.
Let us all just trust each other.

Protect those you love.
But realize also.
There are others in need.
Try not to be governed by greed.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Where we end we also begin.
But if this is the end of the line.
Let us let compassion be our guide.







Let us

Lost in the supermarket

I'm lost in the supermarket.
I don't need any special flavor.
But could you do me a  favor.
Don't take all the toilet paper.

I'm lost in the supermarket.
It used to be a pleasure.
People wearing surgical masks.
People afraid of each other.

 I'm lost in the supermarket.
We must all fulfill our basic needs.
We have to care for each other.
Only together can we make it better.

 We are off the map

We are off the map
From what we have ever known.
At least in that, no one is alone.
We still have to find a way to cope.

I am appalled at the President.
Who can only represent.
His own best interests.
Whose words are false and unrepentant.

The nation is in crisis.
We still don't know what the price is.
But we damn sure know what we value.
Some kind of human morals.

But we have a sociopath
Who does not know the math.
Who thinks his sphincter.
Should express his wrath.

There is a pathogen.
He cannot be named.
Destroyed democracy.
He is never to blame.

He is a parasite.
Neither left nor right.
If you disagree with him,
You are a blight.

This is where we are headed?
I would rather be beheaded.
I never believed in democracy more.
We are headed to 1984.

 I am soul searching



I am soul searching,
Due to doom emerging.
From a corrupt sham.
That never seemed this bad.

We have a leader in chief.
Who challenges every beef.
That does not make him sovereign.
But that man has no core belief!!

We have a despot with no restraint.
We have a nation in trouble.
Where soon we won't be able,
To make complaint.

I truly do not know the answer.
But this administration is a cancer.
On our republic and our democracy.
This man's term is pure hippocracy.

I can't stop being fearful.
And shedding tearfuls.
How far we have gone down.
I am truly forlorn.

Yoda on Donald Trump(haiku)

Learned his lesson, Not.
He will be the new despot.
The dark side in him.

It's a sham and a shame.
A rigged corrupt game.
Republicans are sycophant.
To the worst I can name.

If the Republican senators had any heart.
It would be a start to correcting wrongs.
But those Republican senators.
Sold democracy out for a song.

Their consciences secure in their purses.
Our Constitution now needs hearses.
The state of the union worsens.
'Make America great' means increase the hate.

At this mockery of a trial.
They proceeded to defile.
The Constitution for supper.
While the American people suffer.

There was no balance.
But they all got their checks.
They know how to genuflect
To the man who directs.

The President's appointed liars.
Came up with their defense.
Well actually there is no defense.
We all know he did it!

They have no clear defense.
They say there is no quid pro quo.
That is a lie. In case you don't know.
They used to say there was though.

They can't get their ducks in a row.
Because EVERYTHING
They say is for show.
 They only want to save his base.
To make him look laudable is a futile case.

 We are at a Constitutional crisis

We are at a Constitutional  crisis.
So Trump lawyer-ed up.
He's an ornery pup.
The Republicans pretend to give a fuck.

The Republicans are paying lip service.
Lock step with our despot.
They have no purpose.
Unless by 'purpose,' you mean being useful.

By useful I mean to our President. 
Who has no morals but only quarrels.
The Republicans show their hypocrisy.
Their shame has no modesty.

But it is more important than Democrats and Republicans.
If we continue on this path, everyone loses.
So many responsible citizens exposed to pressure.
The senators' indifference impossible to measure.







Who does not have a soul to rent.




Something moral.With Trump,
There is no moral!

I am so sick of the Republicans..

I am so sick of the Republicans.
Defending Donald Trump.
When the emperor has no clothes.
He has only added to our countries' woes.

We have never had a President.
No, not even Nixon.
Who more flouted the Constitution.
And who had no moral conviction.

As a nation I know we can do better.
Be you Republican or Democrat.
I'm just saying people.
Donald Trump is a filthy rat.

If you believe in him, I do not abide.
For our nation he has increased the divide.
His self-interest is palpable.
His integrity laughable.

  My phone needs me

 

My phone needs me.
But I am putting.
My phone on hold.
My phone insists.

My phone needs me.
But I won't answer its call.
My phone says a lot of things.
My phone is a distraction.

My phone makes demands.
How many of them are important?
How many are irrelevant?
My phone always asks.

My phone seeks information.
How much do I need to give?
My phone is a parasite.
And it knows where I live.

To be rich you must first be satisfied

To be rich you must first be satisfied.
Before that you are barely alive.
Rich is not about money only.
Rich is about friends and family

Rich is about where you belong.
Rich is why I sing this song.
Rich is about resources.
Rich is about what you make of yourself.

Rich is illusory at best.
Rich is a goddmamn pest.
Rich is what we want to earn.
Rich is what makes our foreheads burn.

In praise of Jimi Hendrix

From now on we should say Jimi Hendrix instead of Jesus Christ.
His is arguably a greater truth than any religion we know.
When we say Jimi Hendrix we can't feel evil.
Sadly when some say Jesus Christ they feel more hate than love.

As far as I can tell Jimi Hendrix is a symbol of hope and faith.
People should study Jimi Hendrix's work like they do the Bible.
Not just his albums but everything you can find.
Jimi Hendrix is authentic. His greatness is well documented.

Jimi Hendrix was on the planet for a short time but his message was love.
I do not mean to compare him to Jesus Christ.
It is Christians that give Jesus Christ a bad name.
Christ's message was love from what little I know.

I do not think ANYONE should ever murder in Jesus's name.
But it happens all the time. Not so with Jimi Hendrix.
If anyone has refuting evidence, I will gladly listen.
Jimi Hendrix is on his own celestial plane. Thank God!