Purloined Poetics

Inspired by Yeats Turning and turning in the world wide web The tweeter cannot believe the twitterer Things fall apart; the people cannot make sense of it Weird gobbledigook is woven into the web The virus-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of democracy is drowned The Dems get hung on transitude while GOPs are blown with MAGAtude What rough beast, its anger now from slumber torn Slouches toward Fort Sumpter to be reborn? Inspired by M. Arnold: Ah, Americans, let us be true to one another! For our nation, which is spread out historically in principles of Constitution and Rule of Law, so various, so tolerant, so true, abandons hope for huddled masses yearning to be free. Yeah, I say unto thee we are descending in a darkening spree swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight where Libs and MAGAs argue about what's wrong or right. inspired by J. Lennon: I watched the news that day, oh well. . . about a nation that had gone all to hell. They blew our mind out in a mob That crowd of people made me sob.

They'd seen trump's call: confound the count They wouldn't accept the legitimate amount Nobody was really sure what was going on. We need to turn our Constitution back on. I saw the news today oh yeah The Allied armies had just won the war. A crowd of people turned away But I just had to look, having read the book. I read the news today. . .I'll tell: Vlad the Mad was blasting Ukraine to hell inflicting Kiev pain with Russian drones driving Ukraine folk out of their homes The yankee president was playing chess with Vlad his queen arrayed in reichish dress I'd love to make it all get gone. I watched the news today oh well The NATO nations had just evaded hell. A crowd of people turned away. But I just had to look having read the book. I'd love to see Peace turned on, and Justice and Mercy go on and on and on. . . Glass half-Full