Category Archives: Politics



An Immodest Proposal For Ending War

Twenty-four hundred years ago a Greek
Playwright named Aristophanes produced
A comedy in which one smart woman
Ended the Peloponnesian Wars.
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Posted in Lust, Politics, War, Wisdom

My Volume Of Verse

I’ve hammered out
Three hundred ninety poems,
Some bent and skewed,
Some polished
And quite bright.
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Posted in Greed, Illusion, Poetry (What is it?), Politics, Religion, War, Wisdom

Foreign Policy: The Comedy

Where, pray tell, are Gilbert and Sullivan
When we need them? Surely, the Mikado,
Lord High Executioner, their henchmen,
Could better guide this land’s limp bravado.
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Posted in Politics, Today's News, War

Moral Obscenity

What, one wonders, constitutes a moral
Obscenity? It means, I guess, disgust,
Unwillingness to constrain a quarrel
To bitter foes refusing to adjust.
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Posted in Death, Pain, Politics, War

At The Paddle Tennis Courts: Patriotism

Each day, down at the courts,
We elders shmooze.
A harmless bunch,
We argue sports,
And politics,
Watch the girls go by,
And reminisce.
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Posted in Conformity, Politics, War, Wisdom

The New Black Plague: Empathy

Not long ago, I whined:
“What’s wrong with me?
Why, despite my wealth and health,
My loving wife and sober kids,
My spirit writhes and wanes?”
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Posted in Politics, Religion, Today's News, War