[Erik Olson]

I.
He claims he'll make the state look good as gold,
Whose hissy-fits would pale a four-year-old.

II.
That such an animal could rise so far
Lays bare how many birdbrained fools there are.

III.
Seems Plato sent this bozo troll to stalk
Too close to power and Hillary, to mock
How mobs with volatile moods vote as they please,
Molded to be their own worst enemies.
Democracy's a many-headed beast;
If not a beast, of many heads at least.
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[Gregory Palmerino]

Oxford says Shakespeare will share credit for Henry VI.

The Bard was not a solo act;
It seems that Marlowe had his back.

[Brian Allgar]

Ode to climate-change deniers

This global warming wouldn’t be a problem
If only Planet Earth were nice and flat.
The rising seas would flow towards the edges,
And trickle into space. That would be that.

Unfortunately, that is not the case;
Most of us now accept the world is round.
New Yorkers, if you’re living in Trump Tower,
You’ll be OK. If not, you’ll all be drowned.

[Annie Lincoln]

It's very hard to take to heart, a name that in English slang means fart.

[Ann Drysdale]

Yes! Hello there another-Annie. Welcome to the asylum.

I remember the fun my kids had playing Top Trumps according to their own particular rules. One for a freep, two for a phot and a variable score for a triple flutterblast depending on duration.

[Annie Lincoln]

Originally Posted by Ann Drysdale

Yes! Hello there another-Annie. Welcome to the asylum.

I remember the fun my kids had playing Top Trumps according to their own particular rules. One for a freep, two for a phot and a variable score for a triple flutterblast depending on duration.

Thank you! Lol at least that shows initiative even if it's not the sort of thing you can brag about to your friends at Dinner parties

[Esther Murer]

On a line by Philip Larkin

Buses-turned-billboards and digital dazzlers
telephone robots and internet popups,
relentlessly blaring their one-message song:
Come and choose wrong, they cry, come and choose wrong.

Spielers and spindoctors, hucksters and hackers,
disinformationists, liars-for-hire,
belt it out urgently, loudly and long:
Come and choose wrong! Come and choose wrong!

Fellow Americans, fellow-consumers,
post it on Facebook and tweet it on Twitter,
exercise Freedom to show you belong:
COME
CHOOSE
WRONG.

[RCL]

Reading the Obits

My one complaint:
First we are
And then we ain’t.

[Brian Allgar]

(Spoiler: To all reality-challenged Republican voters, this is a JOKE)

BREAKING NEWS – FBI FIND MORE EMAILS

An unnamed source within the FBI stated that they are currently investigating thousands of emails found in a computer belonging to the late great-aunt of a woman who went to a school less than five miles from the one attended by Hillary Clinton (née Rodham) when she was seven years old.

The agent said: “To date, we’ve found nothing but recipes for Pecan Pie, Chocolate Brownies, and similar stuff. However, the recipes could be coded messages, so we’ve got our best cryptographers working on them. They got quite excited when they discovered that “Celery and Chilli Soup” is an anagram of “Hillary lied – C. pounces”, and pointed out that “C” could be Comey. Unfortunately, the email is dated 1972, when Mr. Comey was twelve years old, which makes it unlikely. So we haven’t yet found anything incriminating, but we’re still hoping.”

[Erik Olson]

This Former Citizen's Reaction To The Latest News

America is over! Thank the mob
That likes a boorish, bigoted doorknob!
From every fiber of my being, I
Resent him in the street who'd like that guy.
Most never thought, their sad vocation school's
Busywork, an assembly line for fools;
Their Worldview turns Reality TV,
Their mind is vegetative, dead to me.
Am I American? Well, from the core
I never did despise a nation more!