The question just two weeks ago Or maybe it’s been three Was in this roomy universe Just how alone are we? Whistleblowers testified And made a presentation Claiming they’d seen vehicles Supporting Drake’s equation That even in our Milky Way Whose spiral arms are spinning The seeds of life were planted Somewhere else in its [...]
If you asked me back in grade school Would the day be cold or hot? I fired up my Philco And I tuned in Willard Scott The morning paper on my porch Was clearly self-explaining It’s sunny, if Page One is dry If wet, then it was raining The weathermen I saw back [...]
The daring main-stream media Regards with hesitation Stories on the nature of The leader of our nation It’s always been so strange to me His soul goes unassessed Considering we live in times Where everyone’s undressed I’ll share with you a theory If you want to know my views They don’t promote [...]
In the darkest of the Cold War days I know there was discussion That just like Dennis Pager We should all be learning Russian And though those years were fearful And quite distant from idyllic I willingly confess to you I never learned Cyrillic But as the DC chorus sings “Appease, appease, appease” [...]
I applaud the Founding Fathers For they saw the future clearly Their foresight was perfection Well, if not so, very nearly In establishing three branches With their balances and checks They distributed the power With some practical effects Though the law could change direction It would never be abrupt And though subject to [...]
The weather’s getting warmer And the candidates are swarming Summer’s hardly here And the field’s already forming All across the media Republicans are rumbling While Twitter has the video Of the incumbent stumbling Of the titles in the ring Governor’s the most But we also have a Senator And a talk show host [...]
In a week when it’s apparent That there’s so much light at stake In your liberties and lives And in decisions you can make In your right to speak out freely On positions you can hold In your doing what you ought to And not merely what you’re told In your freedom to [...]
(Last week, I engaged in a little good-natured mockery of AI. This week?) Just when you’re feeling cocky And you have the whole thing licked You click your heels together and A hornet’s nest gets kicked My life which was so beautiful Has suddenly turned ugly And all because of what I wrote And [...]
He had a dozen followers And set their hearts on fire But remember, of the 12, my friends One was a denier They listened to His wisdom As the greatest truth purveyor But one among the listeners Became his friend’s betrayer Ten among their number Were made of stuff much stouter But one [...]
Events precede so swiftly There's no need for asking why You failed to see the turning point Before you've passed it by You wander through the chaos And you feel a little lost Without you even noticing The Rubicon’s been crossed And then you wake one morning And everything has changed You make [...]