Friday, April 28, 2017

A Month Of Couplets

From The Daily Couplet:


3/27/17

“Been saying this for years!” gets no belief
When uttered by our smug Liar-In-Chief.


3/28/17

              Jared Kushner Drinks
                 A Truth Serum

“Let’s run the country like a company!
“But since it’s Trump’s, prepare for bankruptcy!”


3/29/17

When his deals fail, flop, die, or are undone,
Only a charlatan insists he won.


3/30/17

“Bad boy!” Santa Trump tells Climate Control.
“You get a stocking full of lumps of coal.”


3/31/17

“I never said that!” cries the falsifier.
“And anyone who proves it is a liar.”


4/1/17

Doomed Love

His kind of heart keeps thinking it can save
What her unkind heart’s kicking to the grave.


4/2/17

There’s no talking to men who are all talk.
Their words are sneakers that won’t walk the walk.


4/3/17

                 FOX NEWS

A propaganda blender for the Right
That makes a smoothie of each racist white.


4/4/17

What I regret most are the sins I never
Committed so that we’d be one forever.


4/5/17

“We settled! That means I never attacked her!”
Guilt-free harassment: the O’Reilly factor.


4/6/17

When sycophants enthrone incompetence,
Opinions kneel to blind obedience.


4/7/17

Because you risk your tongue when you give lip,
Intimidation breeds self-censorship.


4/8/17

               Today’s Executive Order

“Those who speak out against air strikes in Syria
Will get a one-way ticket to Siberia.”


4/9/17

The thug’s excuse for violence is numbing—
“I clobbered him because he had it coming.”


4/10/17

Governing, talking, thinking? Trump’s a mess at.
Murdering children? THAT, he’s a success at.


4/11/17

                           Two Ideas of Love

Just do it her way—that’s what she calls sharing.
Your feelings don’t count—that’s what he calls caring.


4/12/17

                          Two Ideas Of Love

She always smiles, but inside she’s a mourner;
Her cheery manner is what makes him scorn her.


4/13/17

                      Logic à la Trump

When we minimize threats, it’ll be with escalations.
If we go it alone, it’ll be with other nations.


4/14/17

        Two Ideas Of Love

He’s honest about his duplicity;
She’s heartfelt in her insincerity.



4/15/17

There’s nothing like despair to make you see
That losing is our common destiny.


4/16/17

Trust in the work, no matter who’s booing it,
And make it like you want to die doing it.


4/17/17

The only thing that gives Trump an erection:
Bragging about how he won the election.


4/18/17

My guards watch me—but though I can’t see them,
I know enough to shun what they condemn.


4/19/17

The villains that you really have to fear
Are those who say “There are no villains here.”


4/20/17

             Two Ideas Of Love

His heart’s the miracle for which she’s living—
The one thing he’s incapable of giving.


4/21/17

            Two Ideas Of Love

She needs approval to be self-reliant;
He only praises you when you’re his client.


4/22/17

Hungry for hope, I gobble up despair
And drown myself in you, looking for air.


4/23/17

No sooner met than looked, and loved, and sighed—
Now joined in joy well-earned and glorified.


4/24/17

                  Democracy In Action

“Cast your vote for Candidate Balderdash!—
So his vote can be bought by corporate cash!”


4/25/17

               Left Wing Blues

We’re Democrats! Instead of doing more,
We’ll just screw up the way we did before!


4/26/17

               Left Wing Blues

Show me three Democrats, and I’ll show you
Four factions who say “Real change? No can do.”


4/27/17

                Left Wing Blues

Liberals will fight each other like mad dogs
But let Conservatives be racist hogs.


4/28/17
              
                 Left Wing Blues

The middle of the road has crushed muskrats,
Dead armadillos, and live Democrats.




Copyright 2017 Matthew J Wells

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