Beware if you introduce facts bystanders shall forthwith make tracks

Aren’t words just something we utter
so no cause to get uptight?
As something we just let flutter
no need for feeling contrite?

Take care to avoid some subjects
while be up on latest trends
Lay off our usual suspects
who talk Tesla but drive Benz

Above all don’t appall them all
by acting the rumpled sleuth
who with hapless self-righteous gall
goes out looking for The Truth!

Beware that if we bring up facts
bystanders shall forthwith make tracks!

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-facts = caution: factual evidence, unless disregarded, may stop us from doing what we want

 

 

Democracy’s dying embers

We ‘commune’ by bumper stickers
and by thought-ending cliches
Feebly democracy flickers
in such debased a malaise

Ever sillier, who’d thought?
Uninformed we get out of sync
society’s bonds worn fraught
Civil discourse gone down the sink

Now in anomie mired
entertained on apps agile
In fantasy conspired
reality’s grip fragile

But what a way to go
when wishing not to know!

Fantasy’s denizens

After having captured Government
Big Business criminogenic
in stealthy coup of empowerment
ethics withered cryogenic

Erstwhile Earnest Citizen
turned Craven Consumer
Now Fantasy’s Denizen
selfish in ill humor

So now we’ve been trumped
back to Poor Serfs bumped

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-serf = here: a person doing undignified work at a callous corporation paid far less than his or her contribution to productivity

Clueless ambit, odoriferous armpit

The clueless White House ambit
emanates from Empire’s
odoriferous armpit:
Absurd acts of ‘high wire’

This (must we not suppose) is:
National psychosis
with full free fall prognosis
by brashest hypnosis

Trump aggrandizes
fantasizes
He tantalizes
scandalizes

Done with can’t-help-himself flair
brazen cruelty laid bare

Tantrumps

While to own profits adherent

‘The Orange Ego Coddler’
in policy incoherent
A vainglorious toddler

The ‘Stable Genius’ despot
ignorant & feckless
How he spouts without respite
a Demagogue reckless!

He untiringly trumps up ‘tantrumps’
amidst golf at casino sanctums

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-stable genius = Trump has self-diagnosed as an ‘extremely stable genius’
-tantrump = (license) tantrum by Trump

Free fall

MSM’s faux storytelling
& Wall Street’s greedy windfall
hasten Empire’s unraveling
tripping us into free fall

The violence visited upon
the outer edges of the Realm
has come home resoundingly foregone
regardless of who’s at the helm

Harsh havoc caused on those ‘small countries grungy’
snapped back in Empire’s face as if by bungee

Precedentially Presidential

At first they were both derided
for appearing quite misguided

Off to such weak start
both Trump & Bush
mere blips on the charts
Then without blush …

… they chose (absent all qualms)
path precedential
which: Drop missiles & bombs
get ‘Presidential’!

Patriots are now deferential
of their new leaders quintessential!