How The President Wanted to Observe 9/11 in the Year 2019

Hey Mr. Taliban, come celebrate 9/11

The president’s sad that you’re gonna stay home

Hey Mr. Taliban, Trump wants to party at Camp David

The president’s sad that you’re gonna stay home

I say hey, I say hey, I say hey, I say hey

The president’s sad that you’re gonna stay home.

Did Trump blow up the world?

Did Trump blow up the world?

What did he tweet today?

What does it matter anyway?

It doesn’t matter what you say.

Did Trump blow up the world

or just the USA?

What did he tweet today?

What does it matter anyway?

Hollow Point

Guns are designed to do one thing, kill.

Thoughts and prayers ring hollow after a mass shooting.

Maybe thoughts and prayers should be included in the sale of every gun.

Round and Round

Cycles of light, cycles of darkness, round and round we go.  Turning on our axis, not straying from our orbit, round and round we go.  Progressives and Conservatives pass through the political turnstile.  Round and round we go.  We are the proverbial dog chasing their tail.  Are you seeing a pattern here?  We’re barking up the wrong tree.

Morning Thoughts

“Life is an exercise in futility.  Ethos and pathos are disingenuous by design.  It’s the lie we tell ourselves as we hide behind false faces and distill empty platitudes for the benefit of none and to the detriment of all.  Humanity is an alien concept to most people.”

Three Steps

Life consists of a repetition of three steps, each designed to trip us up.  Step one, fail. Step two, learn. Step three, move forward.

T J Therien

NaPoWriMo Day 10 Results

The Crux

by T J Therien

Humanity stands at a crucial junction

In the roundhouse of the impending

To escape this nexus of dysfunction

The entire apple cart needs upending

Without cutting off the hand offending

We need to break free from this strangle-hold

Dispel the illusion of wealth and gold

Give up this addiction to self-extreme

It won’t be easy, if the truth be told

It will take much more than a viral meme

NaPoWriMo Day 9 Results

Getting Old

by T J Therien

 

And so another morning breaks

Another day Time will whittle

Every joint in the body aches

There’s no reprise, no acquittal

The skin thins and bone grows brittle

Arteries clog, the breath shallows

On the slow march to the gallows

On the turning of dusty page

The sun sets on dusky hallows

Everyone must acquiesce to age

NaPoWriMo Day 8 Results

Dog Eat Dog

by T J Therien

 

Sinister capitalistic cabals

Have introduced their greatest creation

Socio-economic cannibals

Boiling down the human population

In the briny broth of exploitation

The caldron bubbles, they will eat you whole

The Devil cackles as you sell your soul

The consequence, greater than realized

Having crossed that bridge, having paid that toll

You’ve been indoctrinated and desensitized

NaPoWriMo Day 7 Results

Boris and Natasha

by T J Therien

 

If life was distilled in nursery rhyme

I would be the Boris to your Natasha

You would be my partner in life and crime

Playing house as Sultana and Pasha

After overthrowing Maharaja

Dancing to orchestrated arrangements

Attending extravagant engagements

Incognito in your wig and my toupee

Rocky and Bullwinkle are CIA agents

And Mickey Mouse works for the NSA