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Bye Bye Tweety Turd

Your wings have now been clipped Your mouth now tightly closed It’s time to fade to black Your fraud’s now been exposed Your bully pulpit’s done Deplatformed front to back Your last incitement crashed As your scene fades to black Failed and fallen clown king A legacy disgraced Followers abandoned Leadership now replaced You playedContinue reading “Bye Bye Tweety Turd”

Burn the Candle at Each End

2020 was a shitty year On this, I think we can each agree Sadly this is where consensus ends Due largely to our dichotomy Skewed sharply by a vast division The red, the blue and sometimes the green Manifest tribal polarity Filling all the spaces in between Bleakly entrenched in our opinions Willing to loseContinue reading “Burn the Candle at Each End”

Anti-Claus

Christmastime, it seems to me, has become an increasingly melancholy holiday as of late. Despite my best intentions, the older I get, the deeper the ache seems to resonate. Perhaps it’s the weight of decades of exhausted anticipation, spent reverie, and cumulative disappointment that has taken its toll, resulting in a profound numbness that canContinue reading “Anti-Claus”

The Legend of Glowman

There once was a hero Or so the stories go That stood watch every night In freshly gathered snow Deep in my memories I can picture the place With the crab apple tree Cloaked in winter’s embrace Out there on the front yard ‘Neath blue incandescence Stood the mighty Glowman In bright luminescence I quiteContinue reading “The Legend of Glowman”

Agents of Entropy

From the order at the origin To utter chaos within a blink The ruthless march of time has begun Before there were even minds to think From the singularity burst A quantum of the infinite Hurtling helplessly through spacetime Ambiguously different Along the arrow of time, it flies Unidirectional by design Defying elegant symmetry SacrificingContinue reading “Agents of Entropy”

The Santa Collective

There lies at the heart of the season A conspiracy of unsung giving Conceived with the purest of reason Mythology that makes life worth living Derived from well-intended deceit Engineered to exploit our naivety Quite an extraordinary conceit That sows our seeds of creativity Born from long-forgotten ancient lore And steeped in propensity to hopeContinue reading “The Santa Collective”

Dominate Your Lane

Why you should never pay the two dollars About 20 minutes into the ultimate celebration of 1980’s teenage malaise, “Better Off Dead,” the protagonist encounters Johnny, the vaguely mafioso paperboy who demands “Two Dollars” for what has already been established to be shoddy service. When at first Lane Meyers merely disregards the demand, it’s throughoutContinue reading “Dominate Your Lane”

C.V.N.T.

(In the style of The Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.”) Dumb man, don’t you put that mask onI said, dumb man, pick your flag up for DonI said, dumb man, ’cause the Trump trains in townThere’s no need to be concerned Dumb man, there’s a place you can goI said, dumb man, grab all of your brosYouContinue reading “C.V.N.T.”

The Rejected Drabbles

Indistinguishable Magic In the Clarke Academy of Magic’s grand hall, Arty the Apprentice stood expectantly in his ill-fitting robes encircled by all four Head Sorcerers. This new enchantment that the ambitious Apprentice had discovered sounded very promising, but seeing the disheveled boy before them, they now began to question its potential. “You may proceed,” spokeContinue reading “The Rejected Drabbles”

The Moral Trade Deficit

This disparity isn’t merely an “agree to disagree” instance of polite political differences but rises to the level of breaching what I consider essential code of ethics.