6/1/17
She gave her love, then came the double-cross.
He walked away, thinking: blind fool—your loss.
6/2/17
To be the person I was meant to be
Means learning not to take things personally.
6/3/17
Two
Ideas Of Love
He’s worthless, but she loves him for the way
He makes her think he’ll be a prize someday.
6/4/17
Two Ideas Of Love
He likes to say “My flaws are what create me.”
She likes to screw up, then say “Please don’t hate me.”
6/5/17
The right wing loves successful terrorists—
Laws against them can shut down activists.
6/6/17
The First Amendment isn’t worth a dime
When laws are passed that make protests a crime.
6/7/17
Life is a stage, so make the part you play
Impeccable in all you do and say.
6/8/17
The
Art of The Trump
He hollers “LIAR!” when his foes are critical.
His base cries: “Honest! Blunt! And unpolitical.”
6/9/17
Any deep feeling can, in its own fashion,
Become a great mistake—except compassion.
6/10/17
Two Ideas Of Love
What helps: when he's not there, he never haunts her.
What hurts: she's all he hates, but he still wants her.
6/11/17
People who treat you colder than December
Are clubs that don't deserve you as a member.
6/12/17
Two Nevers haunt all that Life has in store
For us: Never again. Never before.
6/13/17
The facts are never trusted by the pious
Because they always have a left-wing bias.
6/14/17
The Senate’s
Kamala Harris Rule
Kamala Harris Rule
You must treat liars deferentially
Whenever they reply evasively.
6/15/17
The fool will always blame the quills—and whine—
After he tries to hug the porcupine.
6/16/17
Desire: “I’ll win your love because I choose you!”
Love: “I can’t let you go, or else I’ll lose you!”
6/17/17
Friendship sees all and chooses to be kind.
Love only lasts when it’s a little blind.
6/18/17
Love writes a poem filled with perfect rhymes.
Marriage sees all the typos as high crimes.
6/19/17
The 10
Commandments
Of the Republican
Right - 1
We must be treated deferentially,
Not asked hard questions about policy.
6/20/17
The 10
Commandments
Of the Republican
Right – 2
It’s honesty when you applaud our tracts
And propaganda when you check our facts.
6/21/17
The 10
Commandments
of the
Republican Right – 3
The toughest question that we want to hear
Is whether you believe that we’re sincere.
6/22/17
The 10
Commandments
of the
Republican Right – 4
We’re weary of your smirking cynicism.
Echo our press release—that’s journalism.
6/23/17
The 10
Commandments
of the
Republican Right – 5
We’ll treat the symptoms as if they’re the cause
And end big government with tons of laws.
6/24/17
The 10 Commandments
of the
Republican Right – 6
We all agree that it makes little sense
To subject our beliefs to evidence.
6/25/17
The 10
Commandments
of the
Republican Right – 7
We cannot lead this great democracy
Unless you say “Of course, Your Majesty!”
6/26/17
The 10
Commandments
of the Republican
Right – 8
Like all whose hearts are mean, and mien is royal,
We’ll suffer traitors, but not the disloyal.
6/27/17
The 10
Commandments
of the Republican
Right – 9
You cry: “If you have principles, then say them!”
But since we lack them, how can we betray them?
6/28/17
The 10
Commandments
of the Republican
Right - 10
We’ll suck up to whoever is in power
Even if whores gave him a golden shower.
6/29/17
The 10
Commandments
of the Republican
Right - 11
You can be sure that you will face our wrath
When you subject our fiscal lies to math.
6/30/17
You can rely on one thing from the Right:
The whine they serve is always cold and white.Copyright 2017 Matthew J Wells
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