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Haiku Rhyming with Orange

Audio Recordings, Haiku, News / tagged Draft Dodger, Hate, MAGA, Politics, Sexual Assault, Trump / January 9, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It's a heavy load
for a coward to carry
with that heel-spur pain

It's a heavy load
to carry all men's anger
and direct it too

It's a heavy load
to grab what you don't dare to
and get clean away

So sad that

Orange only rhymes
with a jumpsuit and a face
did it all for you

The Tragedy of Tragedy

Audio Recordings, News, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Democracy, Politics, Tyrants, Vote, Voting, Wisdom / October 21, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If you have not heard sage Hesiod say

How often have whole cities had to pay
for choosing one who can but evil do

You might have to learn that way too

Getting Hot Around Here

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Fear, Hype, Politics / June 15, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Attack is the new connect

Amygdala
has moved to the front of the brain

Fox shrugs off a billion-dollar hit
and goes right back to shovelling coal

Thelma and Louise on Garden Tractors

Audio Recordings / tagged Humor, Pathos, Politics, Religion, Women's rights / November 17, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Thelma and Louise
on garden tractors heading for the irrigation ditch

Thelma and Louise
tired of the praying at and preying on
are running from the suburbs hell bent for leather

Running from the suburbs
with a posse of protestants hot on their tails
gun racks on their riding mowers big iron on their hips
firing commandments and amendments with fifty shot clips

We’ve seen the movie before, we know how it ends

Paper Training Donald Trump

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Politics / November 16, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Did you see him
at the door the other night
whimpering to be let back in again

He knows he’s been a bad dog
everybody knows he’s been a bad dog
but look at those sad eyes - he’ll be good

The Other Side of the Gyre

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Dreams, Politics / November 12, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sleep slow to come
from hours too many
and screens too much

Watching the turds of politics
swirling in the flush

Shift to scene
of peace and green

Two birds entwined
in courtship bliss

Softly land
on outstretched hand
and bless my lips
with soft-beaked kiss

Counting Votes

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Choice, Philosophy, Politics / November 11, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Blood Moon 2022 Election

Audio Recordings, Nature, News / tagged Lunar Eclipse, Pathos, Politics / November 8, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On the longest night of the year
just when one is wanting
as much light as possible
the earth is eating the moon

Every time you look up
there's another big bite gone
pretty soon, only blood

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Wear an Orange Mask

Audio Recordings / tagged Control, Heartbreak, Politics / October 31, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

This halloween
It's my party and I'll cry if I want to
has become
It's my party and I'll lie if I want to

You would cry to if it happened to you
has become
You would lie to if I happened to be you

The trick is treating every treat as a trick
and keeping believing if believing you crave
dunking for apples that contain razor blades

It was my party and I'll cry if I want to

With apologies to Lesley Gore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtCIdpnQoWk

Beware

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged January 6, Justice, Politics / October 30, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Call it a witch hunt
but don't call it off just yet
There might be a witch

With kudos to Liz Cheney

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