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

 random thoughts

(haiku)

personal freedom

doesn't mean a thing if you are

dying of covid

-

they love to wear masks

when it comes to halloween

but health, not so much

-

there be monsters here

and they wear a human mask

and need no other

sometimes we see them

but most of the time we don't

cause we don't want to

 our cheapened state

(haiku)

i voted early

just so i don't have to watch

all the voting crap

the media makes

our simple duty to vote

a huge spectacle

a do or die game

that everyone has to play

or else it's over

but the bottom line

if it fails to entertain

it's profits decline

 we are not sheep

(haiku)

herd immunity

implies people are not sheep

as we all supposed

people are cattle

which in my mind seems better

since i like burgers

and it's more macho

being herded by cowboys

instead of shepherds

-

herd immunity

is just the experts saying

nothing really works

just another media horse race

(tanka)

they make it a game

like who's gonna win and lose

when it's pretty clear

the fact that it's happening

proves both teams already lost

-

when the chips are cashed

and the supposed winner leaves

nothing will have changed

except the faith we once had

in the laws that govern us