Month: March 2025

Whose sap this is I think I know
As from the tree it drips and flows.
The tree won’t mind me gath’ring here
To fill my bucket sweet and slow.

The tree stands upward without fear,
Each drop of sap falls like a tear
Into the patient plastic pail,
The drop sound pleasing to my ear.

Up the hill and down the vale
Through snow and mud and sleet and hail
The trees pump faithfully their spirit
From roots to leaves, it never fails.

The tree stands still as I get near it,
So close I sometimes think I hear it,
Rising liquid pushing clear up,
No gravity can quash or or smear it.

The arch is ready, all my gear up,
Fire burning, flames that rear up;
And hours to go before it’s syrup,
And hours to go before it’s syrup.

Speaker Johnson’s job is grueling,
Off to work he deftly trudges.
What do you think of the latest ruling?
“We don’t need no stinking judges.”

“We’ll impeach them, stop their pay,
Eliminate their budgets.
No one dare get in our way;
We don’t need no stinking judges.”

But the law and constitution…
“Communists and left-wing drudges;
Corrupt judicial institution;
We don’t need no stinking judges.”

We asked the President, eyebrows thick,
A man with many grudges,
What’s your take on this latest trick?
“We don’t need no stinking judges.”

Decline and fall, as Gibbon showed us,
(History seldom budges)
Begins when leaders vain and lawless,
Say, “We don’t need no stinking judges.”

Wake JFK’s assassination,
His nephew’s fear of vaccination;
How we guarantee smooth sailing
As we deport the Venezuelans;
Eliminating all the Houthis ,
While reinstating all the junk fees.
The Teslas fall, the markets tumble,
Government shows off its fumbles,
And any migrant they don’t like
Will find it hard to sleep tonight.

But we know hope is on the way,
‘Cause Trump calls Putin every day,
To carve the world in little slices
That satisfy their selfish vices.
“Strong men bring peace, weak bring war,”
(We’ve heard that ditty once before)
A war of words, a war of trade,
Nations crushed and empires made;
While Congress cowers on bended knee.
That was the week that was, you see.

What will it look like when Trump is all done?
When everyone everywhere’s under his thumb?
(A thumb we know that Putin controls;)
(Trump is his puppet, he does what he’s told.)

Four years from now, when Greenland’s a state,
With a bridge to Russia, a welcoming gate,
We’ll send them Teslas, they’ll send us borscht,
Free from all tariffs, no standards enforced.

They’ll walk across Canada, our fifty-first state,
Its Eskimos herded across Bering Strait .
Minorities expelled from American lands;
Full of resentment, they don’t understand.

People from countries black, red or brown,
May no longer visit American towns.
While Russia’s invaded both Poland and Minsk
Putin and Trump exchange clever winks.

Congress has ceded from Article Two
Its powers to Donald with great ballyhoo.
Even the courts are at his command:
He fired all the judges with a stroke of his hand.

The rest of the world is taken aback;
China’s preparing a counterattack.
Europe’s investing in nuclear arms,
Their civilized culture threatened with harm.

Tariffs have sent all the prices of goods
Far above the levels they should.
Our ports are stagnant, our factories quiet,
Economy plummets, you can’t deny it.

Meanwhile the rich pay no taxes at all,
With no IRS, they’re having a ball.
The government’s deficit grows every day,
That’s how it is: Trump’s had his way.

Heard at the summit on tariffs and trade,
The place where global deals are made…

Trump: I’ll tax your metals.
Europe: Then we’ll tax your booze.
Trump: You’d better not do that!
Europe: You’re going to lose.
Trump: I am not a loser!
Europe: We’ll see about that.
Trump: A tax on your wine!
Europe: The old tit for tat?
Trump: Please, don’t tax our whisky…
Europe: Jack Daniels? Who cares?
Trump: I’ll tax your Volkswagens!!
Europe: We’ll sell them elsewhere.
Trump: Our country is strong!!!
Europe: Your dollar is weak.
Trump: I’ll double the tariffs!!!
Europe: Your people will freak.
Trump: They love me! They love me!
Europe: That’s what YOU think.
Trump: They’ll welcome high prices!!
Europe: Sir, you’re on the brink…
Trump: Of what, you effeminate socialist dweebs?!?
Europe: Of shooting yourself in the foot.
Trump: You tax our feet? We’ll tax your noodles!
Europe: We’re getting nowhere…
Trump: I’ll tax your French poodles!!!

With that the summit came to an end;
Never lovers, hardly friends.

Chamberlain abandoned the Czechs to Hitler;
Remember what happened after:
Austria, Poland, Belgium, Holland,
Fell to the dictator’s laughter.

The French surrendered, a war began,
Five years of destruction and hate.
Europe asunder; all from a blunder
Of appeasement in the year ‘38.

To coddle a tyrant, history knows,
Brings only despicable ends.
Better to gather the good and resist
When first wicked evil portends.

Instead of appeasing, we should be seizing
The helm of the ship of resistance,
‘Gainst unashaméd agressive invaders
Who threaten our peaceful existence.

Eggs are up, my savings are down.
While most Republicans’ noses are brown.
Selling our country to Putin and Musk;
As they kiss his tushy, he swaggers and struts.

Coffee rises, measles spread,
Assets diminish, we’re all in the red.
Tariffs are taxing the things that we need,
All to enable the oligarchs’ greed.

Our country is tearing apart at the seams,
Rockets and airplanes crashing in flames;
Each day brings reversals of yesterday’s news;
Government paralyzed, research abused.

How far down must he take us before we rise up
And save our republic from running amok?
Wipe off your noses, climb out of your hole,
Before our democracy loses its soul.