wisdom of the ages

the old italian said,

when mussolini held power

I yelled duci like a fool

when the nazis took over

I hated the jews too

when the u.s. pushed them out

I was all red, white and blue

from catch 22

and so it shall be

In the last years of my life

I’ll wear my maga hat proudly

to avoid any strife

and welcome my ignorance

like a long lost soul

and pretend i’m a believer

wherever i go

 freedom 

I held freedom in my hand

like a orb it brightly shone

in the middle of nowhere

I stood cold and alone

then I stepped forward

and the orb vanished

but when I stepped back

it reappeared

so there I was, free at last,

desolate and so alone

and all that time

the orb brightly shone

 like a boogeyman

(haiku)

another neighbor

has come down with the virus

that makes a dozen

and I’m reluctant

to even go to the store

to buy groceries

least of all mingle

for who knows what is lurking

within every cough

-

it’s like it’s out there

waiting to put asunder

every well laid plan

 almost a million dead

(haiku)

a deadly virus

hovers everywhere we go

but few give a shit

people are dying

but it is the other guy

until it is them

then they say real low

i should’ve got vaccinated

or wore my dumb mask

but no one hears them

cuz the thing about this thing

is you die alone

-

our callous nation

undisciplined and stupid

pretends it’s not real

alone is a good thing

(haiku)

in my neighborhood

most people have opinions

i can’t bear to hear

in my neighborhood

everyone likes to complain

about everything

in my neighborhood

people live pretty good lives

but no one knows it

in my neighborhood

it seems that nine out of ten

are republicans

in my neighborhood

it’s best to just be alone

and talk to no one

 

 same old problem

(tanka)

the whole idea

that everything should go on

as it was before

the pandemic became fact

perpetuates the problem

-

 

by the time we are

all fully vaccinated

covid will mutate

into a worst variant

resistant to the vaccine

winding down

(haiku)

time’s going faster

and most everything i see

i have seen before

and all these issues

i’m suppose to care about

don’t really matter

when i consider

the tiny part mankind plays

in the universe

-

and i probably

won’t be alive when it all

crumbles to pieces