Wad the God

Politicians…flag pins displayed
Talk values
Teachers…standardized tests dismayed
Talk values
Preachers…glad-handing at door, advocating war
Talk values
Pundits…Cashing in land, a virulent propaganda
Talk values
Values…“interests”…Values...“ideals”
Values are integrity…Or easily repealed
Values in USA…have been summarily shot
Only “value” America has…how much wealth you’ve got

Wad the God

Politicians…flag pins displayed
Talk values
Teachers…standardized tests dismayed
Talk values
Preachers…glad-handing at door, advocating war
Talk values
Pundits…Cashing in land, a virulent propaganda
Talk values
Values…“interests”…Values...“ideals”
Values are integrity…Or easily repealed
Values in USA…have been summarily shot
Only “value” America has…how much wealth you’ve got

Craps

Rested my bones…on duct taped bar stool
Bartender was built like a 57’ Caddy
Shiny chrome on aging eyes
Her voice oozed cotton candy
“Another shot honey?”
“Little girl, I been shot so many times I
look the six side of a dice cube.”
She smiled, and I melted out the backdoor.
Like always.

Endangered Species

LIBERAL!...They shouted
We’ll flay his skin
LIBERAL!...They exalted
The last of his kin
Hung from lamp post
For the obtuse to see
LIBERAL!...was flayed alive
‘Til the blood dripped LIBERALLY
They tugged and pulled on body
And it soon was torn apart
Then they gasped in consternation
The LIBERAL had a HEART

Quartz Movement

Darkness creeps as sunshine sleeps
An owl screeches in the night
Coyotes howl, at the harvest moon

A shark cruising ocean deep
Cat is blinded by headlight
Water placid, no splash of the loon

Near dawn predicts the daily peep
The incandescent amaranthine plight
Denizens of eventide, await celestial swoon

Today…Tonight…Midnight, High Noon

Stir Crazy

He didn’t have both oars in the water
Some say she’s two bricks short of a load
They went and had a beautiful daughter
Who married a guy who looked like a toad
The grandkids are a handful, two mules, a fawn, a dove
Folks just always shake their heads
A “crazy” kind of love