The Republican plan for our health care

The Republican plan for our health care
(Which started out more like a stealth care)
Has failed once again.
Any way that you spin
It's because it is more like their wealth care.

Upset that you can’t speak Valyrian?

Upset that you can’t speak Valyrian?
Want to expand from Bantu or Syrian?
This “Game of Thrones” tongue
From an app now has sprung.
So you don’t have to sound so plebeian.


The language-learning app Duolingo will now teach users how to converse in High Valyrian as part of its instructional programming.
The language, which is spoken by Daenerys Targaryen on Game of Thrones, has been in the apps’ “incubator” for several months, and now has a completion date. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the language structure of High Valyrian was developed by the UC Berkeley alumnus David J. Peterson for the HBO adaptation of the George R.R. Martin series.
-- Global News, July 15, 2017

Condolences to our friend PSY

Condolences to our friend PSY
(You know, that “Gangnam Style” guy).
The song, “See You Again”
Brought his run to and end.
Manic dancing gave way to the sky.

Park Jae-sang, better known as PSY, is no longer the king of YouTube ... views, that is. Five years after the video for "Gangnam Style" was posted, and four-and-a-half years after that video was the first on the site to be viewed 1 billion times, the Korean pop star has been ousted from the top of the mountain by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's "See You Again," a song commissioned in memory of Paul Walker, the Fast and Furious actor who died in November, 2013.

NPR music - Jluy 11, 2017

I am constantly taken aback

I am constantly taken aback
At how TV news got out of whack.
They ignore the true winners
Who cook homeless dinners
To cover Kardashian / Black.

Don Jr., the son of the Prez

Don Jr., the son of the Prez,
Had a item he wished to confez.
He met a Russian skirt
For Democratic dirt,
But got nothing.  Well, that’s what he sez.

Who thought that the Donald would choose

Who thought that the Donald would choose
To join the ranks of the “fake news”.
His smiling face hovers
On magazine covers
Only printed to fool and confuse.


Huffington Post - June 28, 2017

Time (Magazine) on Tuesday asked the Trump Organization to remove any fake covers of the magazine displayed at the presidential family’s business properties.

The magazine’s request to the group came after a Washington Post report revealed that several of President Donald Trump’s golf courses had a framed copy of a doctored Time cover, which featured the commander in chief as the cover story.

At the top of the fake cover, white text reads “TRUMP IS HITTING ON ALL FRONTS... EVEN TV!” The cover also promotes a fake news article on Trump’s former show “The Apprentice” as a “television smash!”

Of the Batmen, he wasn’t the best

Of the Batmen, he wasn’t the best.
But his image will outlast the rest.
Somewhat pudgy and stiff
With his “Bam” and his “Biff”
Rest in Peace, old chum, Adam West.

At last! It’s the coming of Comey

At last! It’s the coming of Comey.
The hearings will be so awecomey.
The nation’s a-flitter
With one eye on Twitter
And the Congress in HD at homey.

The word has down from above

The word has down from above
That there can be no greater love
Than to lay down our lives
So another survives.
Souls that today we show memory of.

The circus is not coming to town

The circus is not coming to town
Ringling Brothers has shut it down.
No trapeze or high wire.
No tigers through fire.
And all the clowns now wear a frown.

For yelling a question at Price*

For yelling a question at Price*
In a manner that was deemed “not nice”,
A reporter was jailed
Because he fussed and wailed
While pointing a dangerous device.**

*Tom Price, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services

**a cellphone

Our F. B. I. Director Comey

Our F. B. I. Director Comey
Has been fired and sent to his homey.
Trump knows the pillory
That happened to Hillary
And is afraid of a fine tooth combey.

On the passing of his hundredth day

On the passing of his hundredth day
The Tweeter-in-Chief stopped to say,
“While my every vow
Has been thwarted somehow,
I’m the best Prez in the U. S. A."

When the President said “wire-tap”

When the President said “wire-tap”
He really meant “giant mouse-trap”.
When he said “Obama”,
He meant to say “Mama”.
So what’s all the fuss about that?

There once was a gal named Loretta

There once was a gal named Loretta
Who could not be called a go-getta.
She slept until noon.
Just to dust made her swoon.
And the cat could not getta to petta.

Wait a minute! It’s not “La La Land?”

Wait a minute!  It’s not “La La Land?”
How did “Moonlight” get up on the stand?
Was Miss Philippines
Somewhere behind the scenes?
And did Steve Harvey somehow have a hand?

There once was a country named Sweden

There once was a country named Sweden
That many regard as an eden.
But not Donald Trump
Who says it’s a dump,
Where terrorists have the land bleedin’.