Friday, May 06, 2022
After the Final Convulsion,
the King fled.
There followed Emperors,
each more decadent
than the last. Culminating
with one enamored of making
the Nation into a beloved Circus.
The girls felt pretty in
their spangled tights, and
the men shot from cannons,
despite singed eyebrows,
enjoyed the trip.
But the clowns
got handguns.
Labels: Circus, gun, King, politics, rule
Wednesday, November 07, 2018
The Man Who Was Well-Positioned
Imagine his chagrin, then,
discovering the opposite.
Knowing before he, of course, so
we struck with
the rules. Why
we have them, no?
To escape the merely fanciful.
Or faking.
Cars fluid
before braking.Labels: game, position, rule, strategy
Sunday, May 27, 2018
Misrule
-About that time, King Menton, the Entirely Mad, declared that henceforth his subjects could not eat!
-MEM?
-One and only!
-Didn’t the rich cheat?
-Grew fatter. Besides, they had all joined
The Police.
-Who had to enforce, thus had to eat for energy? Unsustainable situation! Off with MEM’s head !
-Not so fast! He signed the new decree,
then, allowing all citizens to join up!
-Thus we arrive at today’s police state!
-You arrest me or I’ll arrest you!
-But there’s no interest in pursuing the
holdouts, the hard criminals, murderers and rapists etc.
-They weed out their very worst.
-Hmmmm? Have we...reached Utopia?
-I’d say yes.
Labels: arbitrary rule, citizen, famine, rule, wealth
Friday, April 27, 2018
Coming of Age
“What is your twenty-first birthday question?” asked Grigor of daughter Estelle.
“How did everybody get so mean?”
“He answered...?”
“Be patient! Everyone just forced to start from there.”
Labels: folklore, human society, rule, society
Sunday, October 15, 2017
-The Man Describes His Horrid Life
in dulcet tones.
-He’s happy, then?
-The dulcet tones are.
-They can join other dulcet tones?
-Forbidden!
-Good night, swart Prince!
Labels: custom, describing life, mores, rule, sweet, voice
