OP-ED: Updates

by Stan Morrison, Office Committee Volunteer

For something a little different this time, we’ve got an opinion piece in poetry form by Stan Morrison, one of our committed office volunteers:  

Updates

news papers are lists of outrages

printed in black on big white pages

reforms never go rapidly but in stages

most crooks don’t end up in cages

many solutions are incompatible

rules of decency are not applicable

divorces never wind up amicable

thinkers i think are quite despicable

lots of tenants end up evictable

these roads no longer are navigable

so few of the areas are still habitable

rich folks’ taxes remain uncollectible

i find that only criminals are electable

climate is way past correctable

humanity is barely detectable

jokes are no longer laughable

faces aren’t photographable

bourbon whiskey isn’t potable

nonsense cliches are forever quotable

channel markers are unsinkable

and the status quo is unthinkable.

a la luna yo me voy!

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(translation of last line: I’m going to the moon!)

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