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Icy nights Stifling morns Melting ice Years of warns Fires, floods Hurricanes Sliding mud Bone-dry plains Rising seas Aftershocks Famine, disease Pandora’s box And at root All along The iron boot Of all gone wrong Great enemy Of water, air Of land, of sea Of elk, of bear Of fish and fowl Of oak and … Continue reading
This is a story as old as the hills The rich hire the lawyers The poor pay the bills So, in light of the current impeach throes A poem on just where the law’s reach goes I type with thoughts that gnaw Why should I heed the law While Rudy trots the globe For scofflaws … Continue reading
The verb to trump has been used extensively across Britain to refer to the breaking of wind. It is especially the case in the North, in Wales and certainly in Norfolk. Over the centuries, fart has not been without linguistic rivals. Since the early fifteenth century, for example, trump has served as a synonym for … Continue reading
Humpty Trumpty wanted a wall Humpty Trumpty is now in mid-fall He and his henchmen supremely unfit Are now in the toilet In fat Humpty’s shit. © tony powers and Barking in the Dark, 2019. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner … Continue reading
If you really care to know the scary evil that we face The Netflix show “The Family” will take you to that place This secret “Christian” fellowship of rich “connected” whites Influencing Donald Trump, whose slip of tongue was right O yea, he is the “Chosen One” but chosen by the worst Chosen by this … Continue reading
Sanity’s defeat is now complete A lunatic now governs us by tweet It now is de rigueur to heed each bleat Coming from this loony’s toilet seat And while he sits and dumps his shit Our earth is burning bit by bit Our water has become unfit As fellow madmen ignore it Are we … Continue reading
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