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July the fourth is here, hooray
Parades and fireworks displays
And speeches all throughout the day
King George no longer rules our land

Our Independence lets us be
A nation, a democracy
Full rights for all ethnicities
All people equal in this land

But that is not what’s happening
Those conned by an extreme right wing
Had put in power a would-be king
Forever Trump would rule the land

Trump and McConnell stacked the Court
With justices who’d Rights abort
And leave to states this mess to sort
With fifty state-laws of the land

No longer the United States
Now 50 independent states
Where Rights are different, state to state
The Divided States, this once great land

7/2/2022

Roe v. Wade is now no more
The Court Supreme has struck it down
This doesn’t end; there’s more in store
An all states ban is next around

The rationale, I don’t believe,
Is simply saving unborn lives
Republicans by this achieve
The subjugation of all wives

As citizens of second class
Whose freedom has been ripped away
Whom vigilantes may harass
On privacy they’ll have no say

No longer credible, the Court
The justices Republican’s
Intent was clear right from the start
Defying most Americans

What can be done? You well may ask
The answer’s getting out the vote
It must be our most urgent task
It really is our only hope

6/24/2022

I’m not a hero, though I’m dead
I’m not what politicians say
To justify that I’m this way
When speaching on Memorial Day
“We thank our heroes; bow our heads”

I didn’t join to cause his end
That day he was my enemy
To look upon with enmity
I must shoot him or he’ll shoot me
Who otherwise might be my friend

We’re here because our politicians
Representing our great nations
Couldn’t solve some situation
Compromise in arbitration
We’re data now for statisticians

But I’m remembered by a few
My Mom, my Dad, they still are sad
The wife and child I might have had
The morning sun that made me glad
My would-be friend feels that way too

6/1/2022

You
Who vote for senators
Who vote for congressmen
That don’t support fair gun laws
You
Have the blood of children
Have the blood of worshippers
Have the blood of shoppers
Have the blood of all the innocent
Victims of gun violence
On your hands

Yes you!

5/24/2022

Jews will not replace us
Yes they will
Blacks will not replace us
Yes they will
Latinos will not replace us
Yes they will
Gays will not replace us
Yes they will

White supremests can shout their hate
White supremests can run for office
White supremests can massacre

But in the long run
They won’t win
As long as ALL the rest of us do
VOTE

5/16/2022

Dear moms of our Democracy
I do salute you every one
Who made the choice to bear a child
Or not when felt necessity
But soon that choice in privacy
Will be no more, no more for you
And, too, for multi-millions more
This is the last free Mother’s Day
If SCOTUS acts on what they say
We need to legislate your rights
And rights of all Americans

So tell your friends and family members
Vote Democratic this November

5/5/2022

My wife, as Savta Raba known
To our children great and grand,
Posed a poignant observation
Having heard the evening views
Of the pundits on the news –
Republican prevarication
And their autocratic stance
Democracy could well be gone

Her observation, simply this:
What, she wondered, life will be
For our children grand and great
Will there be democracy
Or likely an autocracy
When they’ll be twenty, in that state
How limited their lives might be
And will they know what they have missed?

My thought response, as I remember,
Thinking how life then might be
I thought of Russia, Putin’s realm –
All slaves to Putin’s craziness
With lives, so threatened, in duress –
Trump’s son might be here at the helm
When suddenly it dawned on me:
‘Twill be decided come November

4/28/2022

In the midst of news abhorrent
Raining down, it seems, in torrents
Both internal
And external
There is news that is historic

And that news is KBJ

Judge Ketanji, black and female
Smart, articulate in detail
Poised demeanor
Took to cleaners
Senators with mouths choleric

KBJ was on her way

Fifty three to forty seven
She had made it through the Senate
Closed doors battered
Ceilings shattered
Her achievement most fantastic

She’ll be Justice KBJ

4/8/2022

Well, Biden did it; really goofed
He up and told the honest truth
It must have been a Biden gaffe
The world’s response? It made me laugh

Joe Biden blithely caused some nations’ diplomats to cower,
By saying: this man (meaning Putin) can’t remain in power
An ad lib in his Warsaw speech supporting brave Ukraine
One’s not allowed to say such things, relationships might strain

The White House said, in self-redeeming,
Regime-change wasn’t Biden’s meaning
But Biden’s sanctions, it’s a fact,
Are really hoped, to do just that

The man’s a killer, liar; he’s an autocratic despot
He cares not for his subjects, subjugation is their poor lot
He’s targeting civilians with deliberate intention
Committing crimes that violate Geneva’s war conventions

So, let’s give Biden big high fives
For keeping honesty alive
Where Putin’s followers will sour
Putting Putin out of power

3/27/2022

I find it difficult to watch the nightly news
The up-close sufferings, horrific views
Of children, women, men, some near my age
Like novels where I fear to turn the page

But this is real; it’s happening before my eyes
And some of those I see will likely die
A mortar shell, a bomb, a rifle shot
Real people, I’ll, my life, forget them not

Then, too, I will remember and I bless
Those souls who vid these views, the nation’s Press
They daily risk their lives recording sights
All aspects of the war, the human plights

I must admit the helplessness I feel
I know that World War III could soon be real
A diplomatic tightrope we must navigate
Support as can but not in war participate

I’ve studied war, my specialty for forty years
All aspects: soldiers, battles, tanks to spears
But some things one can’t truly analyze
The utter terror beaming from a child’s eyes

3/8/2022