Month: June 2022

Not In My Backyard

Everything’s a lot, I know:
SCOTUS just aborted Roe
v. Wade well past the third trimester;
Putin’s troops keep creeping wester;
Climate change grows more alarming
Every day; while that’s all charming,
There’s a more important issue:
Spiders in the toilet tissue!
Fuel prices; high inflation;
Insurrection-based frustration;
All that fades the day you find
Arachnids on your bare behind
That got there when they hitched a ride
On what cleans up your underside.
The world’s a steaming mess, no doubt,
But T.P. spiders? Wipe. Them. Out.

No, Snooze Is Good. Snooze!

Overslept to start the day?
You know you’re going to have to play
A game of catch-up all day long.
Moral: Too much sleep is…wrong?
Except that’s clearly not the case.
Moral: There’s a time and place
For sleeping, namely night and bed?
That may be what our forefolk said
When nowhere was electrified,
But since we’ve brought the sun inside
The advocates of Franklin’s dictum
In re bedtime lost: We licked ’em!
Sleep delayed is sleep denied
And no sleep’s never justified.
If Ben objects, I’d say to him
That any other moral’s im-.
Here’s a pithy thought worth keeping:
Early to bed…means more sleeping!

Justice, Tranquility, Welfare, and Liberty

Our Constitution contemplates
A nation of United States
With independent legislative
Institutions whose creative
Output should be subject to
An unappealable review
By justices whose raison d’être
Is ensuring laws have met the
Constitution’s true intent,
For instance, what its authors meant
By “We, the People”: Humankind?
Or that subset who might have signed
The document as citizens,
A status granted those with skins
In whiter shades of pale, with land
And testicles? They understand
That mores and propriety
Evolve in a society
And context matters, but they’re wary
Anytime contemporary
Practices and attitudes
Might clash with those endorsed by dudes
Who died two hundred years ago,
Which is, long story short, why Roe
v. Wade was overturned today.
Now, what do We, the People, say?