Broken, they readily admit 

because it sounds so much better 

than just plain sick.

Three quarters of the House and Senate republicans voted No 

on the Sandy relief bill.

In the great expansion 

all hands will eventually part 

and in time 

even greed will lack a host 

to suck upon.

* * *

We are the generations 

our great, great grandparents 

warned each other about 

and we inherited their inability 

to work things out 

and whether we like it or not,
right or wrong 

our children’s children 

will inherit the same inability 

to just get along.  

Lone Wolf

I’ve forgotten the touch, the caress, 

the madness of a life shared 

and miss it not, doing as I please 

while pleasing no other, 

running free through what years 

I might have left.

I’ve forgotten the dreams, the aspirations 

most hold dear in noble futility 

and like a lone wolf I howl and I howl 

at a luminous moon, 

giver of soft light and nothing more 

is expected. 

The Tea Party Kid

In a make believe world 

he sips imaginary tea 

from an empty cup. 

A little kid pretending 

he’s all grown up,

rebel yelling ‘spending cuts!’ 

but what he really says is 

‘me, me, me,

my plans, my wars, my policy!’

* * * * *

Mass Hypnosis

I finally got rid of that propaganda tool 

cuz I am so tired of being played for a fool 

so I turned in my cable box  

and now, like in the good old days, 

commercial interruptions is the price I pay 

for free TV, 

limited to a certain degree 

but ten channels of crap is hardly any different 

than a hundred channels of the same.