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I’ll take a free shot for my health – but only if I get a shot at $ wealth!

Written when the promotional idea for vaccination was floated that people taking a Covid shot should be automatically enrolled in a $ lottery.

“A shot for my health
why my concern?
But for my own wealth
that I discern!”

Won’t Public Health by $ lottery
sadly show up our souls as watery?

By refusing vaccination
we lack solidarity
in communal abdication
clueless insularity

“It’s freedom
to be a bum
Te Deum
jabs, who need ’em?”

While we can’t let it be our lot
to humor this kind of crackpot?

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When everything is said far more is said than done

He carries on a lot
about urban blight
of societal rot
things not being right

While yearning for action
still without fail every day
he keeps losing traction
bogged down in most mundane fray

He digresses, slides back deplumed
self-centered, in ill humor
into role for which he’d been groomed:
The entitled consumer

who is unable to rein in his stride
though can’t be said he seriously tried

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Dancing to them, we are!

Images careening off keel
out-of-breath pitches twisted
in frenzied & frantic appeal
Any restraint resisted

Our attention usurped, wrested
in hugely bumped up gumption
Their vapid claims unattested
brought on in slick presumption

These ads of billions of dollars
bring neither rhyme or reason
just keep pouncing in crisp colors
Dance or consumer treason!

When speech & image
vile, while opaque
still pounce & scrimmage:
Time to awake!

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Science causes our Covid compliance fatigue

From inconvenience
(as we lack calm resilience)
do grant us lenience!
Let’s rely on own brilliance!

Amidst all impertinent tasks
we’re joined strong in resistance
to those ‘steam up my glasses’ masks
and keeping 6 ft distance!

Those demands imposed on us like blitzkrieg!
Honor our fatigue! Unfair the intrigue!

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Humanity’s girth too ample for poor Earth

Earth’s oceans asphyxiated
planet terminally polluted
wearing out dilapidated
Human Race for poor Earth ill-suited

Wars rage without ceasefires
Farmland parched from drought
ever raging wildfires
gaining heightened clout

Bridges fall, deep potholes
oceans continue to rise
ice melts from heating poles
still doesn’t seem to make us wise?

But hey, can’t you see we’re busy
by high-tech haplessly dizzy!

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Life of its Essence we’ve wrung

Watch our contrived smiles beaming
flooding the feigned community
see our well-brushed teeth gleaming
All relished with impunity

With entitled importunity
we’re elbowing in fake freedom
for abundant opportunity
like found in erstwhile Yankeedom

While life’s very essence seems since been wrung
what we now stand for may thus be unsung

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We could have mitigated. Instead we abdicated

There’s no longer much stretch left
of our Species’ narrowing path
which, had we back then been deft,
could’ve used to brake the planet’s wrath

Instead we caused Earth to crumble
by our consumption willful
Recklessly kept up in rumble
our feigned ignorance skillful

Unwilling to restrain
we decided to downplay
Little time shall remain
until our Species’ doomsday

Our shuffling so far in dismal dance
assures that our Species stands no chance

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A Sixth Mass Extinction, now really?

If you insist go right ahead! Be my guest! Just don’t involve us!

Well, aren’t you persistent
it did happened in the past
may in future distant
But we would still be miscast!

For should it happen in the present
we’d rather stay unaffected!
Such a tiresome & irksome event
must out of hand be rejected!

We avoid things unnerving
enabling us to glide along
on our life path unswerving
no worry until our swan song

Until then we prefer rush headlong
heedlessly, unblushingly headstrong!

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-Sixth Mass Extinction = Over the last half-billion years, life on Earth has been nearly wiped out five times. It’s happening right now for the sixth time. Let’s give ourselves a big hand for so splendidly helping it along this time around!