Fartest Prouder

Fartest Prouder smiles as he steps aboard the bus

While deep inside his innards slowly begin to fuss

An unbelievable mixture from many a foreign land

A very bad food pyramid that always works as planned

An indistinct low rumble as the gaseous emulsions coalesce

Their sudden introduction is bound to cause duress

The unsuspecting patrons on the city’s double red blue line

Are about to experience something that will forever scar their mind

Fartest Prouder winces as he bends over double in the middle

Like an ancient octogenarian that’s trying to play the fiddle

A sound of such proportion almost primeval in its scope

Makes all of those that hear it suddenly abandon hope

An amorphous miasma wafts a most sickening smell

Makes a priest in the back think immediately of Hell

And up in the front a girl screams for her mother

As the air is displaced and they all start to smother

The bus driver’s dazed but quickly recovers his senses

But not before crushing three empty wooden park benches

Fartest Prouder grins, a look of pure rapturous joy
and remembers with great fondness, he's mothers favorite boy

There really is a lesser of two evils

it's Bernie Sanders 

not Colonel Sanders

you blathering buffoon

he doesn't cook chickens

he calls them out

plucks their feathers

their lies naked 

to the world

it's beautiful really

a campaign symphony

roiling for change

this symphony 

needs a chorus

if everyone could just

Feel the Bern!!

are you worried

possibly terrified

flutter in your gut

fear in the distance

bearing down

bereft of soul

covered in hair

beseech your heavens

pray to god in vain

decency asunder

normalcy laid to rest

democracy is messy

this is a shit storm

for your consideration

I give You, Donald Trump!

Michigan my friend

the dumber you are

the easier you fall

Michigan my friend

is the dumbest of all

in these hard times

who do we elect

a vulturous cadre

of reptilian descent

a nefarious governor

as evil as they come

a Republican perfecta

of verminous scum

the state lays broken

it's beaten, supine

ripe for the picking

as they queue up in line

they're drooling, salivating

as they eye the feast

this ravenous, rapacious

Republican beast!

first it's Benton Harbor

what's next in this state

so many to choose from

as they load their plate

the forlorn, the hapless

the helpless and the lost

a boatload to steal from

as they placate their boss

those plutocratic denizens

who live beyond our reach

always espousing virtue

never practice what they preach

it's now time for austerity

cutbacks across the board

except for record profits

all else must be ignored

the facts are overwhelming

even off kilter, slightly skewed

the preponderance of evidence

says Michigan is screwed

you get what you deserve

you get what you deserve

when more than 80% of your population believes in angels

you get what you deserve

when less than forty percent believe in evolution

you get what you deserve

when you reelect Bush

you get what you deserve

when the Supreme Court is packed with ideologues

you get what you deserve

when you are scared of gay marriage

you get what you deserve

when more than 50% of the population despise unions

you get what you deserve

when you believe in trickle down economics

you get what you deserve

when corporations are people

you get what you deserve

when you fight wars based on lies, Endless Wars! Plural!!

you get what you deserve

did I mention Bush...

only the rich vote republican?

The paradox of theft

Three people are sitting at a table a CEO, a tea party member, and a union man

the CEO grabs the box full of doughnuts from the center of the table and walks away

the union man looks at the tea partier and says

" If we still had collective bargaining we could have at least kept a doughnut"

and the tea partier says " At least we've got our Freedom"

Saint Ronnie

is there beauty in ignorance

and is it benign

this notion of bliss

just ensures one is blind

and thus easy prey

open wide for abuse

the jackals are ravenous

their needs are profuse

as the rich get richer

the more we must bleed

it's an easy equation

the mathematics of greed

brought to us by Ronnie

the saintly Trojan horse

a conservative icon

who plotted this course

now we're left ravaged

depleted, supine

the right wing agenda

it's all by design

and as we all falter

teetering on the brink

we're taking on water

this nation might sink

do we remedy problems

with solutions well sought

no we reelect culprits

who've been soundly bought

The Supreme Court

The White House

Congress's hallowed halls

all of these compromised

they've got us by the balls!

income distribution

These charts are a real eye opener!!

Serf and Turf

This is a great article articulating the demise of Democracy. The symbiosis between a healthy Democracy and strong labor unions, the ruinous notions of the conservative agenda, and the outright stupidity of the American public, of which 54% have an unfavorable opinion, of labor unions. Wow! The power of propaganda! Do yourself a favor and read this piece..

a thousand words

notice the small amount paid by corporate thieves

in the 1940's they paid twice as much as individuals

this gap represents the single most debilitating

factor in our ongoing economic debacle

and shows how effectively the corporate

monster has captured and controls our government