02/20/17
The real enemies of Democracy:
Kings who demand unquestioned loyalty.
2/21/17
All governments end up like the Titanic:
The only state is one of sinking panic.
2/22/17
So many of the best women are driven
To men who always need to be forgiven.
2/23/17
Always online, the Universe is waiting
For keywords loving, caring and creating.
2/24/17
The pains of torture, poison, vivisection,
Are heaven to the hell of love’s rejection.
2/25/17
Cloudy or bright, failure or paragon:
The day is always daughter to the dawn.
2/26/17
If I can't give without an expectation,
Then generosity becomes flirtation.
2/27/17
Look forward: potholes, detours, nothing clear.
Look back: a smooth wide road, straight as a spear.
2/28/17
When men are robbed, they’ll fight like tigers born
But act like sheep when regularly shorn.
3/1/17
You can train apes to read the printed page
But that won’t change their bullying or rage.
3/2/17
How Trump
Defines Watching The News
Stay glued to all your screens like some dumb Rhesus
For news that’s just rewritten press releases.
3/3/17
How Trump
Defines A Free Press
The Press must praise our phony attributes
And never point out that we’re empty suits.
3/4/17
With loss, the echo stabs more than the deed.
I don’t know I’ve been wounded till I bleed.
3/5/17
Trump’s America
A ship of state that pushes overboard
The wretched refuse and the dark-skinned horde.
3/6/17
No matter how it ends, goes or begins—
The game we play is rigged. God always wins.
3/7/17
By its pain racked and on its pleasures gorged,
This life’s an anvil where my soul is forged.
3/8/17
Women see Trump and recognize an ape
Who rules like he can get away with rape.
3/9/17
Joy follows grief in one brief frantic blur
Untasted—unless sipped like sweet liqueur.
3/10/17
The credulous say crooks are civilized
Whenever they don’t rob as advertised.
3/11/17
When assholes come down on me like confetti,
I’m sick of being big. Can I be petty?
3/12/17
I’m proud of two things—how I play Love’s game
And the scar on your heart that has my name.
3/13/17
Freedom is not the right to pick and choose
Who gets its gifts. Do that, and we all lose.
3/14/17
Women and Blacks are part of an invasion
When “real American” means “male Caucasian.”
3/15/17
A Postcard
To The White House
No matter how you lie, the truth will strike back.
(And Adolf Hitler called—he wants his Reich back.)
3/16/17
A Postcard
To The White House
Freedom’s like Trumpcare: our masters have whored it,
And we can’t get it if we can’t afford it.
3/17/17
A Postcard
To The White House
You’d rather be obeyed and cheered than fair.
(And Adolf Hitler called. He loves your hair.)
3/18/17
This life breeds strangers far too easily.
Find kindred spirits. Make them family.
3/19/17
Happy Birthday, Patrick McGoohan
Count me and classify me if you can—
I’m not a number; I am a free man.
3/20/17
How The
White House Defines
“Personal Freedom”
“Your rights won’t disappear—we’ll just consider
Selling them to the highest corporate bidder.”
3/21/17
The Christian Right believes that charity
Means never giving anything for free.
3/22/17
Republican
Senators on the
Judiciary
Committee Agree:
“How dare you say our nominee’s not fit
After the way we treated yours like shit?”
3/23/17
The Current Motto of
The
Department of Education
Since the well-educated want to screw us,
Let’s keep their kids so dumb they can’t see through us.
3/24/17
The
Trump-Approved
Republican Motto
Nothing you say or do can terrify us—
Unless, of course, you’re rich enough to buy us.
3/25/17
Like criminals will always self-impeach,
The overbearing always overreach.
3/26/17
Except
For My Friends
It’s not constant rejection that I mind—
It’s that the world is boneheaded and blind.
Copyright 2017 Matthew J Wells
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