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Friday, April 4, 2025

Charles A Perrone

A Week of Back and Forth in 2025


On Monday they cancelled health watch outright

Yet the seagulls feasted on our seaside leftovers

On Tuesday they just closed libraries everywhere

Yet dogs read our minds and fetched all day long

On Wednesday they scared many seniors to death

Yet our red-tailed hawks soared as ever they had

On Thursday they insulted veterans of all services

Yet army ants had a veritable field day next door

On Friday they conducted another historic massacre

Yet the palm-tree parrots managed to preach loudly

On Saturday they golfed and laughed at everyone else

While every zoo animal nationwide howled in protest

On Sunday they desecrated all notions of real worship

While winged angels did hover to warn of retribution




Her Evening


She had a premonition

So she quickly jotted down responses

to the probing questions that were on their way to her

Then she culled them and separated the chaff

and just for a laugh she revealed three:

ruling class values are good, for them;

billboard mentality may be taking over;

that goal of equality may have to wait.




New Angles


I don't want to wake up at dawn nor to get up early,

not even during the duration of the whole morning.

Thus, noon will be the designated time to commence.

Breakfast time has passed, so first up it will be lunch.

Then I can begin to confront the troubles facing me,

first of which is the overwhelming hypocrisy of the

ruling class that claims to be in favor of democracy,

when the opposite is so clearly the actual real case.


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