Month: September 2021

It’s nine eleven, twenty years, a somber anniversary
We mourn three thousand killed that day and pray in solemn memory
For first responders who, with risk, brave searched for those who did survive
And for the families of the dead – whose memories keep them alive

Our people, north, south, east and west, united in their sense of grief
Transcending race, transcending creed, transcending red or blue beliefs
That’s rare to see this day and age. We are a country cleaved in two
Republicans and Democrats with separate truths, with separate views

As such I find it interesting that foreign terror on our shores
Caused such a sense of dread and fear; enough to launch a couple wars
While COVID-19 variants kill thirty hundred each two days
And people yawn; go on their way; in passing, “it’s too bad”, they say

A third the country’s hopping mad; they’re spoiling to put a fight
Against mandating masks to wear. It violates their freedom rights
And, too, against the COVID shots. “To hell with their community”
“The virus is a farce.”, they say, “Shots won’t produce immunity.”

But if a missile crossed the seas and landed down in Arkansas
With COVID viruses it filled the atmosphere both near and far
I’m sure the country would unite to fight the virus tooth and nail
They’d all don masks and get their shots. They’d win this war! They wouldn’t fail!

9/11/2022

“Don’t tread on me!” The Texans say
While stomping hard on women’s rights
They passed a law that takes away
Their right to choose; yes, Roe v. Wade
With consequences out of sight
Where vigilante hoards will roam
To spy on women in their homes
They’ll hack their Emails and their phones
Incentivized by their reward
Ten thousand bucks if they can prove
That anyone by deed or word
At any time four years removed
In any way did aid, abet
A woman to abortion get;
Ten thousand bucks the fine would be

The Court Supreme in dead of night
By shadow docket ruled against
A court injunction stopping hence
This law denying women’s rights
The Justices decided thus
Without debate; no hearings held
Although they knew it violates
The constitutionality
Of Roe v. Wade. Inaction in reality
Okayed the law so other states
Will copy it; not just abortion…
Other federal laws I’ll mention
Laws that frustrate their intentions
Laws that they have come to hate
Becoming vigilante states

It’s the beginning of the storm
It’s well past time for Court reform

9/3/2021