Monthly Archives: April 2016

Why We Fight

For weeks we’ve been obsessing on The delegates and counting While every day employment falls And deficits keep mounting The chalkers go on chalking And the pols keep up the chatter It’s easy, then, to overlook The things that really matter This week I read a story That’s as sad as it is strange That's [...]

An Ode to Morning

Lightly, to my Muse I tread I know a poet who once said, “A fine bud opens To a finer flower Not at the dawn But at a later hour” But rising with a rude awaken I must conclude I was mistaken For do we want The day, rehearsed? Or views and news Both fresh [...]

Fresh Faces

Elections, it would seem to me Are serious concerns On each and every ballot A country’s future turns It may embrace a tyrant Or elevate a fool For politics encourages The crafty and the cruel Altruists, in this career Must pay a higher price It has a way of preying on The noble and the [...]

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