Saturday, May 26, 2018
Gusto!
(Marko and Hal, Sing, Duet, mostly)
Oh it’s always fair weather
when good fellows get together.
(great Basso-Mustering then)
With a stein on the table!
(One or the other, trailing off)
And a…a...
-The task our young women hath laid upon us is challenging but achievable.
-To somehow combine this with Barbie-Warbie’s Wuppy-Buppy Cupcake Song?
-Why not just come out as Pussies?
-Why bother? Understood!
-By the public at large?
-Universe.
-I’m not up to all that!
-Cosmic Pussies? I hear our loins girdling!
-Where are the MEN of yesteryear?
-Looking for some frilly thing to wear!
-HOW frilly?
Labels: compromise, drinking song, feminine, masculine, sex, singing
Monday, May 21, 2018
The Questions Change, Losing?
How do you like
your blue-eyed boy
Mr Death?
How do you like
your flim-flam man
Mr Coward?
Has he raveled
matters so far
beyond description
you dance furiously, merely
to get along?
Each life having melody
purchased to form song.
But with Artificial Intelligence,
why even bother, Dear?
It has been
taking it from here
for the longest time!
How do you like
your…whichever-
forever
Mr A I?Labels: artificial intelligence, Buffalo Bill, compromise, coward, dancing, melody, Music, Trump
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Liberal vs Conservative
on the Spiritual Level
is a fight unto Death!
Which is why we need
politicians. One might state
“Now wait
a little minute! We actually like
one or two of your new-
fangled notions. So let’s
say we get to keep...
and you get...?”
Labels: compromise, Conservative, liberal, political fight, politician
Monday, May 09, 2016
Meeting of Alleged Minds
Liberal Contradictions, Trump,
will soon iron matters out with
Ayn Rand disciple, and Speaker, Ryan.
(Both to stop building walls?)
Mostly to affirm the sacred Republican Touchstone of grinding the face of the poor--Doctrine here, pleasant fallout in our war zones.
Plus, the menacing of docile women
as to the thoroughly-deserved lowering
consequences of sex--in the name
of Christ Jesus a cruel possibility.
As is a compromise on a Platform more of
indictments than planks.
Very nearly a prayer also for the welfare
of the Rich: May they never be discomfited!
Much, of course, a matter of style
between two men of our just time.
Labels: Abortion, compromise, loggerheads, Party of the Rich, platform, Republican, rich, Ryan, Trump
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Party 1,2,3
A Few Points Coming In
1 Well, they got their compromise!
2 And so fast-hatched and shoddy, it
favors us.
3 The main thrust was to save THEIR face!
1 They owe us one.
2 You mean when we’re neck-deep in mire someday?
3 Of their debt to us, we must constantly remind them.
1 Lest they shunt it, and us, aside out of embarrassment?
2 It always behooves us to remind them of embarrassment.
3 What is face-time for? Especially on the networks?
1 To twist it in unrelentingly!
2 I’m keeping my kids out of politics.
3 Nonsense! Just have to apprise them of a few points
coming in.
Labels: compromise, face, face-time, political compromise, political vulnerability, politics, Saving Face
Thursday, February 12, 2015
The Art of Legislating
-Well, for the ten thousandth time, the devil
is in the details.
-We’re the devils!
-Don’t get theological on me! Our fellows
rely on us to hammer out a deal.
-Just speaking to you is sacrilege, according
to a good many of my voters.
-Mine too, and we will rape their purity
once again this night.
-You’re a Catholic: you’ve got Confession.
I’ve just got elevated thought.
-Well, hold it down so we can talk.
-And as grimy as it all proves, our better angels
will drift in when we’re exhausted.
-I think we should belay the holy or infernal
imagery. We’re...sleazy car dealers in a seedy
part of town.
-My battered Ford and a thousand for your Chevvie!
-When we shake hands on that, we lift the neighborhood.
Labels: Art of Compromise, Catholic, compromise, Confession, core voter, devil, Devil in details, ideological purity, political purity, rape, theology.
Saturday, November 15, 2014
What’s It All About?
Hodge, Belsky, and Dred told Lou they couldn’t stand
hearing anymore about A.
A was a person or an idea, possibly both. Retellings grow
fuzzy with time.
Lou answered then: integral part of him! He couldn’t surrender
it or him or her or whatever!
Well, mature people iron things out, compromise. Thus, Lou
could talk somewhat less about A?
Uh uh. He left, never to be seen again. Immature, some say.
But, stuck to his guns–-whatever on Earth they were.
Most who flee are heard from again, or someone spots
them on a street or at a ballgame. Or kids go to conferences
and ask about parents.
Nope.
Not a great loss?
Who can tell?
Labels: compromise, estrangement, friends, quarrels
Saturday, June 07, 2014
Living Together
Thus Working It Out
“Is it okay if I don’t do everything perfectly
every single time?”
Melody snapped the whip. “No!...and sorta yes.”
“Good! Wiggle room!”
“Try wiggling. Anything!”
Labels: compromise, couple, sex, wiggle room
Friday, May 30, 2014
Champion of Whatever
Solon and Aide
-Whatever happened to Fiercely Independent Champion
of the Working Man and Woman?
-Not a thing. You keep saying it!
-Won't your Wall Street Bankers get pissed?
-You don't get to be a Wall Street Banker unless you
know everything is bullshit.
-Or a Senator?
-Church Dude...whatever. You name it!
-And your favorite movie, The Sound of Music?
-And you’re (sings) a bird that is learning to sing.
-The NRA wants me blasted away.
-No rhyming in the office!
-Where do you stand on Gun Control?
-I don’t stand anywhere. For anything. I persuade.
-What are you persuading your gun nuts to...?
-Not to bring a bazooka to a pea-shooting contest.
-The latter weapon will be a great help when the black
and Hispanic Marauders come down the hill!
-I’m persuading ‘em: Stay up there!
-Let’s start casting you as Peacemaker!
-Bi-fuckin-partisan!
Labels: black, bullshit, compromise, gun control, Hispanic, NRA, senator, Wall Street, Working Man, Working Woman
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
Varieties of Prevarication
Senator and Aide
-Which lie will you support?–all naturally purporting
to help John and Jill Q Citizen.
-Which hurts me least?
-A.
-Most?
-C.
-Then let's go with B.
-Always the thoughtful compromiser. The new Henry Clay!
-Better than others they'll compare me to.
-My favorite is Hitler.
-Mine too. The busboys shrink out of the way.
-You stride this broad world like a Colossus!
-Very occasionally. Though I do love it!
-The next president!
-This swamp is enough. More tangled, and thus more bankable.
Labels: compromise, money in politics, political decision, political lying, senator
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Short Names and Old Politics
Sen “Rip” had the facts and figures;
his nemesis, Sen “Alf” the same.
They fired them at each other for a year.
No compromise on legislation seemed
possible. Presidential appointments, the same.
Rip took a phonecall from his state's governor--
of the other party. A bridge to be named
for him. The nickname would be bad form,
however. So very formal ceremony with his
full moniker on humongous bronze plate. While
at this time, his senate opponent found out that
a rec center would carry his name, beloved
diminutive accommodated in quotes. Back
after dedications, they happened on a compromise
existing in The District. Favoring Rip somewhat,
but one nonetheless.
Sen “Rip” had the facts and figures;
his nemesis, Sen “Alf” the same.
They fired them at each other for a year.
No compromise on legislation seemed
possible. Presidential appointments, the same.
Rip took a phonecall from his state's governor--
of the other party. A bridge to be named
for him. The nickname would be bad form,
however. So very formal ceremony with his
full moniker on humongous bronze plate. While
at this time, his senate opponent found out that
a rec center would carry his name, beloved
diminutive accommodated in quotes. Back
after dedications, they happened on a compromise
existing in The District. Favoring Rip somewhat,
but one nonetheless.
Labels: bridge, compromise, honor, naming, old politics, senator
Monday, February 25, 2013
Senator
-House wants A, we want B, President wants C.
-Then compromise would be ABC.
-You’d think, but a brand new idea emerging.
-Isn’t that rare?
-Snow in Key West.
Labels: compromise, creativity, House, Key West, senate
Monday, May 14, 2012
Presently in Bad Odor, Compromise
When was it not? A-
dults came forth and
soothed the hotheads.
Then all sat as enemies
to work something out.
Even the Great Khan bent,
but not, it seems, a true
druggist from Terra Haute.
Legislators tearing each
other limb from limb'd
prove his practiced stance.
Expanding that to war...
so long as he's not
doing the dying.
Eventually spending
your children’s blood
for glittering cause
and its vile money.
Labels: compromise, factionalism, parties, tea parties, war
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Political
The factions, dismissing
murderous intent for now,
hammer down a deal, re-
sembling for a wry moment
superannuated clowns
at a benign convention. O
where are the sneers
of yesteryear?
Labels: compromise, dealmaking, faction, party
Monday, May 16, 2011
Trouble With Compromise
You sign on to the other
side's daffy nostrum, proven
to fail. Will again, and you'll
never shake loose that
particularly vile tar baby.
Labels: compromise
Thursday, December 16, 2010
The Compromise
Today we trade
the tired brand
for a vile deal!
Amen! affirms
the virulent
adversary.
Ours been talk
forever.
Labels: compromise, deal
Tuesday, December 07, 2010
Right, Left, Center
R
No compromise!
L
Ever!
C
Speeches nice. Sentiments likewise. But we have to run things.
R
RINO!
L
DINO!
C
Well, can’t be both. Now, why don’t you two just...?
R
Down in flames, rather!
L
In flames!
R
They’re throwing out the baby with the bath water!
L
They haven’t made the turn at the Twentieth Century,
let alone the Twenty First!
R
Mad experiments with everything. Tons of sex. Our money thrown at all of it!
L
They wanna come to my bedroom to watch. Disgusting voyeurs!
R
Fund the slacker bums!
L
Embrace the rich as they screw the rest of us!
C
See you around.
R&L
We doubt it!
Labels: Center, compromise, Left, pragmatism, Right
