Pick a side

Conservatives want the man on welfare to pull himself up by his bootstraps. Liberals want to give the guy a pair of boots. - Kurt Poleet

Too late

My grey eyes gaze at grey skies

I realize it was all lies.

No one’s wise when faced with truth,

omnipotence of youth

melts like an ice cream cone on a summer’s day

and all I can say is I’m sorry.

The osprey

I often wonder why she fled

the purple-drenched sky.

An osprey cried “Let us pray”

I tried but nothing came out.

Grey caverns swallowed my soul,

she rolled ‘neath her headstone,

a subtle tone wrang in my head.

The bird then warbled a dirge

while I was on the verge

of following my love into tomorrow,

thus forever ending my sorrow.

Hamlet’s debate would seal my fate

one way or another.

And as the osprey sped away

I wondered if I’d live

to see another day.

Taking a shellacking

The economy added 244,000 new jobs last month, while first-quarter profits rose 17%. Oh, and we got bin Laden. So why aren’t President Obama’s poll numbers through the roof? The price of gas. Even though according to George W. Bush, “There’s really nothing the president can do about the price of gas”, prices at the pump affect the president’s popularity more than anything else. And prices are up. Way up.

So it’s interesting that at the same time we’re paying record prices at the pump, and oil companies are enjoying their best profits ever, that Republicans just unanimously voted against a motion to end subsidies for oil companies. Rep. William Keating (D-MA) offered the motion on the House floor saying “let’s stop sending taxpayers’ money to the most profitable companies in the world”.

With one voice, Republicans just said: “No”.

Last November, the American people voted overwhelmingly for deficit reductions, and it was Republicans they turned to to cut spending. In hindsight, it seems as though that was a mistake. Republicans are showing their true colors by firmly defending the richest people in the world while turning their backs on the majority of Americans.

The rich are getting richer, and the rest of us are taking a shellacking.

‘Neath the grey gull’s wings

The irascible sea

slaps the shore’s indignant face

far and hard, harder still

till cliffs become sand

and white foam falls dizzyingly

into the distance.