Month: April 2019

Let Freedom Ring 22.4

Mass shootings happen all the time
Without a reason, but with rhyme:
For thoughts and prayers and guns, demand
Will spike, but changes won’t be planned.
Still, best be safe: Shore up your stock
Of weaponry in case the shock
Of this one causes such regret
That we’ll do what we haven’t yet,
By which I mean, a single thing…
I kid! We won’t. Let freedom ring.

Good Spoilersport

I have a life, so maybe shouldn’t
Also care for things I couldn’t
Possibly make time to see
In theaters or on T.V.
It isn’t fair of me to take
My lifeless friends to task, or make
A public fuss, complain or pout
Because of what they talk about
Amongst themselves where I can hear ’em,
Though discretion will endear ’em
To me for eternity!
(And those without are dead to me.)

Innumerable

It’s nice when things are hard to count
It means you have a large amount
And many often equals good
So when it’s up to you, you should
Opt in to greater quantities
Unless you’re dealing with disease,
Disaster, disco…things that start
With “dis-” should still be kept apart
From others in their groups of peers
So you can count your happy years

Let Freedom Ring 21.71

Mass shootings happen all the time
Without a reason, but with rhyme:
For thoughts and prayers and guns, demand
Will spike, but changes won’t be planned.
Still, best be safe: Shore up your stock
Of weaponry in case the shock
Of this one causes such regret
That we’ll do what we haven’t yet,
By which I mean, a single thing…
I kid! We won’t. Let freedom ring.

Rodney King’s Lament

Tribalism serves us well
When compromise invites the knell
Of cold mortality; less so
When rivals share one’s interests, though,
And not at all when threats external
Pale beside the fumes infernal
Emanating from within,
A thesis anti to win-win.