It's a ball buster being centrist, maybe worse for being formerly radical.   Currently, with an authoritarian fed trending, I suggest Dems not do what they did the first time Trump was in.  The obstruction and allegations, drama, resistance, the blind opposition to anything Republican only brought the trouble back in force.   It would have been better to seek common ground with Republicans, to seek mutual understanding, seeing compromise, and best, healthy mutual interest.

It's what Dems need to be into now.  Quit opposing and start inviting coalition.

I invented the term 'squatrain.' It means a new form of poetry that people aren't ready for yet. I write some of my stuff in squatrains.

Haiku in Four Squatrains:

Celebrity germs

Gestate in sparkling limos

Stardust infections

Racing in their Benz

Photographer’s motor bike

Trend setting crack up

Defenestration

Five syllables of falling

With help from a guest

Load will hit the ground

before whatever happened gets

pronounced correctly

Private sponsorship

 

...now that the federal government is downsizing, tax exempt arts organizations are probably next.  It's seem for years that the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has been king.   Maybe artists should ask, politely, that wealthy people support individual artists without the benefit of the tax exemption.  Support artists who are not 401C3.

Haiku

 

Haiku:  The Load

Rain washed Ash Wednesday

Crabs pull each other back in

When trying to leave

 This is as good a time as any to fess up:   Pam Bondi, Pete Hegseth, and Trump are all members of The Master Race.   I think.  Either formally or informally.   Maybe they all attend conferences someplace superior to here, Pittsburgh, that is.   That's fine with me, if that's the case.   I am a low net worth senior citizen receiving social security and other social supports.   My circumstances suck even if I'm mistaken about the leadership, and they really are dangerous fascists.  

Damn it, I'm just as enthusiastic about eugenics as they are.   People are in a cognitive and ethical downward trajectory.  Hegseth could sell master race sperm for a fortune a pop.   As soon as the DOGE eliminates the gestation period, Pete and Pam can turn out one USDA zygote per month.    That's a lot of superieor human beings, and the SOBs are needed.  Have you seen how fucked up it is downtown?

 Hello dear friends, I'm a smiling antinatalist motherfucker.   Literally.  Done it.   Antinatalism is a social movement  that simply despises babies.   Antinatalists believe the Earth is overpopulated to the point of pending extinction, but in the most immediate way,  the quality of life is a disaster as too many people compete  for everything while being a neurotic slave to the system.

Stop having babies.  Let the Earth get it's shit together.  Flower power.  Sex.   No babies.  Abortions, you betcha'.    Ligations, heck yes.    Pills that make Mr. Happy hard, you betcha'.

I also favor mass lobotomies for violent criminals.  Saves jail space. Nuthouse confinements, less.   Peace.  Tranquility.  People who don't suck will be all the better.    Thanks for reading.

poem reading with bass and bongo 2 22 2025