tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65697075897296343162024-02-08T14:41:56.895-05:00Associated PoetryEmily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comBlogger626125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-80356167922575494152020-03-03T16:59:00.002-05:002020-03-03T17:01:52.337-05:00Commedia dell Vote-ay<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In this issue</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">it's almost time</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">for the identity</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">of the Super Blues-day superhero</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to be revealed.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Guaranteed to be</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Better Than Mr. Orange (TM)</span><br />
in some way<br />
<br />
the Voting Body can rest assured<br />
that the next four years<br />
will feature a presidency<br />
with at least measurably reduced levels<br />
<br />
of fearmongering<br />
hatemongering<br />
scandalmaking<br />
and Tweets<br />
featuring said -mongerings and -makings.<br />
<br />
After today<br />
there will be no more voting<br />
and the ever-changing Voting Body shall be released from ...<br />
<br />
Wait a minute<br />
<br />
the Voting Body<br />
<br />
won't reveal the hero's certain identity<br />
till almost the summer<br />
<br />
and there's a Super Reds-day identity<br />
waiting to be revealed too?<br />
<br />
And this person<br />
will likely be the hero's<br />
arch nemesis<br />
Mr. Orange?<br />
<br />
And the Voting Body<br />
in eight months<br />
<br />
will choose between<br />
Fine or Better and Worse Than Death<br />
<br />
with characters like<br />
Mr. Russian Hacker<br />
<br />
Mr. Voter Suppression<br />
<br />
and Mr. Slightly Embarrassing Political Moments<br />
from Hero's Past<br />
<br />
possibly making an appearance?<br />
<br />
Yes to this and more.<br />
<br />
Stay tuned.<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2020 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-26834840173993578202020-02-25T16:46:00.000-05:002020-02-25T19:10:05.821-05:00Truth Alone TriumphsAt a press conference<br />
in India today<br />
<br />
Trump of course<br />
remained focused on affirming the rights of Muslims<br />
to live freely without persecution in the country<br />
<br />
admonished Prime Minister Modi<br />
for his citizenship law<br />
<br />
and said that he experienced<br />
"serious regret"<br />
<br />
after the US Supreme Court ruled in favor<br />
of the recently-revised "public charge" rule<br />
<br />
that now makes it harder for immigrants<br />
receiving certain kinds of non-cash benefits<br />
like <span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">healthcare assistance</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">food aid and housing subsidies</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">for more than a year</span><br />
to get green cards<br />
<br />
upon realizing that it probably would've excluded<br />
people like his grandfather<br />
from immigrating to the US.<br />
<br />
Then Trump woke up<br />
from his fever dream<br />
<br />
and back in ours<br />
also known as reality<br />
<br />
said of Supreme Court Justices<br />
Sotomayor and Ginsburg<br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "georgia pro" , "georgia" , "droid serif" , serif;">“I just don’t know </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "georgia pro" , "georgia" , "droid serif" , serif;">how they cannot recuse themselves</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "georgia pro" , "georgia" , "droid serif" , serif;">from anything having to do with Trump</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "georgia pro" , "georgia" , "droid serif" , serif;">or Trump-related"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "georgia pro" , "georgia" , "droid serif" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: "georgia pro" , "georgia" , "droid serif" , serif;">mischaracterizing Sotomayor's criticism</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c2022; font-family: "helvetica" , "roboto" , "segoe ui" , "calibri" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">of the appellate process</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c2022; font-family: "helvetica" , "roboto" , "segoe ui" , "calibri" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">catering to the federal government</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c2022; font-family: "helvetica" , "roboto" , "segoe ui" , "calibri" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c2022; font-family: "helvetica" , "roboto" , "segoe ui" , "calibri" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">as an attack on himself personally.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c2022; font-family: "helvetica" , "roboto" , "segoe ui" , "calibri" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c2022; font-family: "helvetica" , "roboto" , "segoe ui" , "calibri" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whew!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c2022; font-family: "helvetica" , "roboto" , "segoe ui" , "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2020 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-33922444427336032502020-02-18T16:59:00.000-05:002020-02-18T16:59:07.288-05:00Commuting to 2020 (Haiku)Fox News here's a thought.<br />
Bring on Kellyanne Conway<br />
to spread a new lie:<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Trump's bipartisan</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">for commuting the sentence</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">of Blagojevich.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2020 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-72204782396400750342020-02-11T18:43:00.000-05:002020-02-11T18:43:54.167-05:00Curb Your Understanding<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">There's people who don't get</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">well-done satire</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">and then there's Trump's almost satirical-seeming</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">misunderstanding of such</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">when on Monday</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">he retweeted an expletive-filled scene</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">from Curb Your Enthusiasm</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">in which Larry David</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">after almost hitting a motorcyclist with his car</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">puts on his MAGA hat</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">to de-escalate the situation.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
The motorcyclist<br />
seeing the hat<br />
and believing the two<br />
are politically kindred spirits<br />
<br />
calms down and tells David<br />
simply to be more careful next time.<br />
<br />
Trump captioned the scene<br />
with "Tough Guys for Trump."<br />
<br />
But in an earlier scene<br />
<br />
David uses the hat<br />
<br />
as a "people repellent"<br />
<br />
to get out of playing golf<br />
with his manager<br />
who doesn't want to be seen<br />
<br />
with a Trump supporter<br />
<br />
then wears it at a sushi bar<br />
so he can enjoy a meal<br />
by himself.<br />
<br />
As for Trump supporters<br />
who watch the show<br />
<br />
David didn't care<br />
too much about them<br />
being alienated<br />
by the episode<br />
<br />
saying in an interview<br />
(in almost haiku form)<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">“Alienate yourselves.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Go go and alienate.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">You have my blessing.”</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2020 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-13064642297038871042020-02-04T18:42:00.001-05:002020-02-04T18:42:18.457-05:00State of the Sand Dunes<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">At Trump's hopefully last</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">State of the Union address</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">don't drink every time</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">the POTUS tells a lie</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">or praises himself for something good that happened</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">that really would've happened anyway</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">or remarks on his</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">slightly-less-than-half-the-country</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">approval rating</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">or brags about him</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">and the country</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">emerging triumphant</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">from a so-called "witch hunt"</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">or you'll get alcohol poisoning.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Instead think about how</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">sand dunes of the same height and volume</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">when put into a rotating tank</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">with enough water flow</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">to move the particles</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">will initially </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">move at different speeds</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">due to the upstream sand dunes</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">"communicating" with their downstream neighbors</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">"I need my space."</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">After that</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">having found their places</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">180 degrees apart from each other</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">the two dunes</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">move at roughly same speed.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Then think about</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">how this applies</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">to American politics</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">and realize</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">that people of all stripes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">and with opposite views</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">that will remain such</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">perhaps had to repel each other</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">before coming to the same conclusion</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">that someone</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">anyone else</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">should be in charge.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2020 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-56578159625930265492020-01-28T19:12:00.002-05:002020-01-28T19:12:51.593-05:00Surrender Is Not An Option<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Dear John Bolton</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">After writing in your book</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: "cnn" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "utkal" , sans-serif;">that </span><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: cnn, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, utkal, sans-serif;">Trump tied aid to Ukraine</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: "cnn" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "utkal" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: "cnn" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "utkal" , sans-serif;">to his request</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: "cnn" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "utkal" , sans-serif;">that the country</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: "cnn" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "utkal" , sans-serif;">announce investigations into the Bidens</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">I still don't think</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">I like you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">as a person</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">but thank you.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2020 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-73993438615609306442020-01-21T19:08:00.000-05:002020-01-21T19:31:45.110-05:00Dream On<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Kellyanne Conway</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">when asked why President Trump</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">was not formally celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">after saying he believed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">much of what the civil rights leader stood for</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">said she did not believe it was</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">"within Dr. King's vision to have Americans</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">dragged through a process</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">where the president is not going to be removed from office"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">and added</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">"I think that anybody who cares about</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">'and justice for all'</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">on today or any day </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">of the year</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">will appreciate the fact</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">that the president now</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">will have a full-throttle defense</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">on the facts."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">But perhaps she's right.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Because after all</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">who knows</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">what MLK really would've</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">thought of a man</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">who in a past life</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">kept minorities from living</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">in his housing units</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">and in a current life</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">takes to Twitter</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">and the stage to antagonize</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">nearly everyone</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">except himself?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Or maybe</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">just maybe</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">in her first statement</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">she's saying</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">that Americans will have wasted their time</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">putting up with this whole trial business</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">unless it ends with the satisfying conclusion</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">of having Trump removed from office?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">(Perhaps not.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2020 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-11699714902608339552020-01-14T19:04:00.002-05:002020-01-14T19:04:48.353-05:00Life Sentences<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">announced today</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">that the House would be voting tomorrow</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">on a resolution</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">to name the impeachment managers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">for the President's Senate trial</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">and transmit the articles</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">to the chamber.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">Said Mitch McConnell</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">"It will fall to us</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">to do what the founders intended--</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">to take the long view</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">move beyond partisan passions</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">and do what the long-term good</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">of our institutions and our nation demands."</span><br />
<br />
Since<br />
despite any illusions to the contrary<br />
he is actually speaking Trump-loyalist-ese<br />
<br />
this most likely means<br />
Trump will remain in office<br />
<br />
but as Pelosi reminded us<br />
Trump is still<br />
"impeached for life."<br />
<br />
And as Prince told us<br />
"That's a mighty long time."<br />
<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2020 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-46646426194184633692019-12-17T16:54:00.000-05:002019-12-18T16:43:58.467-05:00Just Peachy<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">Quite ironically</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">in a letter</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">to Nancy Pelosi</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">Trump calls the impeachment inquiry</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">an "open war on American democracy"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and declares that Pelosi views</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">"democracy as the enemy."</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What's it like to be impeached?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In all seriousness</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">given his toddler-esque defensiveness</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">we can only assume</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">it is</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">(or soon will be)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">the pits.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2019 Emily Cooper.</span></span></span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-51279524203683888702019-12-10T17:18:00.000-05:002019-12-10T17:18:45.418-05:00Fitting ArticlesTo those who can<br />
recognize the obvious<br />
<br />
the man-who-thinks-he's-emperor<br />
wears no articles of clothing<br />
(only figuratively<br />
thank God)<br />
<br />
but he may soon wear<br />
the articles of impeachment<br />
<br />
Abuse of Power<br />
and Obstruction of Congress<br />
<br />
which are the only brands<br />
that really suit him.<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2019 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-8826034869503684142019-11-26T18:07:00.001-05:002019-11-26T18:07:52.700-05:00His Bread and Butter<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Dear President Trump</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">This poet is wondering</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">if you made a mistake</span></span><br />
when you pardoned turkeys Bread and Butter<br />
<br />
as they are good and decent animals<br />
<br />
and unlike Eddie Gallagher<br />
did not commit<br />
any war crimes.<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2019 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-78655820288305826882019-11-19T18:37:00.000-05:002019-11-19T18:37:07.674-05:00Blowing His Own WhistleComplained Republican Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio<br />
last Wednesday<br />
<br />
“There is one witness<br />
one witness<br />
<br />
that they won’t bring in front of us<br />
they won’t bring in front<br />
of the American people<br />
<br />
and that’s the guy<br />
who started it all<br />
<br />
the whistleblower,”
<br />
<br />
going on to claim that<br />
House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff<br />
knew the whistleblower's identity<br />
<br />
and that the whistleblower<br />
was "biased" against Trump.<br />
<br />
Replied Democratic Representative Peter Welch of Vermont<br />
<br />
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, "Droid Serif", "Times New Roman", serif;">
“I say to my colleague</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, "Droid Serif", "Times New Roman", serif;">
I’d be glad to have the person</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, "Droid Serif", "Times New Roman", serif;">
who started it all</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, "Droid Serif", "Times New Roman", serif;">
come in and testify.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, "Droid Serif", "Times New Roman", serif;">
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, "Droid Serif", "Times New Roman", serif;">
President Trump is welcome</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, "Droid Serif", "Times New Roman", serif;">
to take a seat right there.”</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, "Droid Serif", "Times New Roman", serif;">
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, "Droid Serif", "Times New Roman", serif;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">This poem © 2019 Emily Cooper.</span></div>
Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-45709384025568298052019-11-12T18:25:00.000-05:002019-11-12T18:25:31.829-05:00Hindsight 2020<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">A series of ads released by the left-leaning super PAC</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">American Bridge</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">will feature rural Trump 2016 supporters</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">explaining why they voted for him before</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">and why that decision</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">was a mistake.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">"This will be unlike</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">any paid media campaign before,"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">says </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Shripal Shah</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">the group's vice president.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">"It will be hyperlocal</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">authentic storytelling</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">that highlights local voices</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">to create a permission structure</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">for Trump 2016 voters</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">to flip back to our side in 2020.”</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
So dear former Trump voters<br />
with a conscience<br />
<br />
please please please<br />
<br />
take it with you<br />
when you go to the polls<br />
<br />
for if you do<br />
<br />
you will be correcting your mistake<br />
and thereby doing so much better<br />
than the person you once supported<br />
has ever done.<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2019 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-79434463103289237492019-11-05T18:59:00.000-05:002019-11-05T19:19:20.379-05:00Super Tweet-Spewing<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Google has created </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">a quantum processor</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">that can supposedly perform</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">in</span> two minutes and twenty seconds<br />
<br />
calculations that would take the fastest supercomputer<br />
10,000 years to complete.<br />
<br />
But that's nothing<br />
if you read<br />
The New York Times' various studies<br />
revealing that Trump has made<br />
the following use of Twitter<br />
since taking office in January 2017<br />
<br />
in praise of himself in 2,026 tweets<br />
in attacks on 630 people in 5,889 tweets<br />
in support of conspiracy theories in 1,710 tweets<br />
in slander of minority groups in 851 tweets<br />
in calling media the "enemy of the people" in 36 tweets<br />
and referring to himself as everyone's "favorite" president in 16 tweets.<br />
<br />
Google says they have reached<br />
"quantum supremacy"<br />
<br />
but Trump has reached<br />
peak white supremacy.<br />
<br />
We call him<br />
<br />
the Un-PC.<br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2019 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-24287236689518974162019-10-29T18:13:00.002-04:002019-10-29T18:13:15.812-04:00To the Ball GameDear Trump<br />
<br />
if you won't let Obama<br />
take credit for killing bin Laden<br />
then you certainly shouldn't take credit<br />
<br />
for killing Baghdadi<br />
<br />
nor should you plug an old book<br />
you probably didn't even write<br />
<br />
which merely addresses bin Laden<br />
as a "shadowy figure with no fixed address"<br />
<br />
and use it<br />
to credit yourself<br />
<br />
with predicting the 9/11 attacks<br />
and giving advice on how to stop it<br />
<br />
as you have trouble predicting events<br />
after the fact.<br />
<br />
But this poet has no real piece of advice<br />
since you don't listen<br />
<br />
except perhaps<br />
to go to more baseball games.<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2019 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-88168885359044078822019-10-22T15:37:00.001-04:002019-10-29T12:40:15.890-04:00Bar None<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Dear Trump</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">when it comes to a horrible thing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">like lynching</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">that has happened to people</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">who are not you</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">it would do you well </span></span><br />
to first consult a dictionary<br />
<br />
before you compare it<br />
to your own experience<br />
<br />
of justified inquisition<br />
<br />
but wait<br />
you can't read.<br />
<br />
Barring that<br />
<br />
you should first use common sense<br />
<br />
to see whether that makes an iota<br />
of a millionth of a degree of sense<br />
<br />
but wait<br />
you don't have any.<br />
<br />
Barring that<br />
<br />
you should<br />
<br />
unwisely make the comparison<br />
<br />
then sincerely apologize<br />
for the very real damage<br />
your rhetoric<br />
<br />
has caused to human lives<br />
<br />
but wait<br />
you have no humiliation.<br />
<br />
Barring that<br />
<br />
you should<br />
as usual<br />
let the justified anger of others<br />
<br />
roll off of you<br />
<br />
until everyone forgets about<br />
this particular horrible thing<br />
and the other horrible things<br />
and the horrible-thing-that-led-to-an-inquiry-of-you-and-yours thing<br />
<br />
unless this time<br />
<br />
they don't.<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2019 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-23044680830333795122019-10-15T19:07:00.000-04:002019-10-15T19:07:34.446-04:00Prime Time PrioritiesIn the past several days<br />
<br />
Trump has abandoned Kurds<br />
<br />
acquiesced to enemies<br />
<br />
been the client<br />
of a lawyer<br />
who defied subpoena orders<br />
<br />
and been the subject<br />
of an admirer's video<br />
showing him shooting journalists<br />
and political opponents.<br />
<br />
So naturally it only makes sense<br />
<br />
that at about 8:30<br />
on a Monday morning<br />
<br />
Trump would make a sincere and impassioned plea<br />
to the American public<br />
<br />
to vote for Sean Spicer<br />
<br />
on Dancing with the Stars.<br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2019 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-58909341340384293602019-10-08T19:02:00.000-04:002019-10-08T19:02:03.077-04:00An Impeachment LamentDear President Trump<br />
<br />
The one thing<br />
this poet will rue<br />
<br />
about you being impeached<br />
<br />
is the fact<br />
that she'll need to find<br />
<br />
another topic to write about<br />
<br />
after you have given her<br />
so much material.<br />
<br />
Well perhaps<br />
our new President Pence<br />
<br />
but after your all-destructive presidency<br />
<br />
satirizing a mere right-wing<br />
homophobic anti-feminist<br />
so-called Christian jerkhole<br />
<br />
who probably lacks<br />
your freewheeling Twitter ways<br />
<br />
is going to be tough<br />
for her.<br />
<br />
(She'll try though.)<br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2019 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-86649338210071731682019-10-01T18:18:00.001-04:002019-10-01T18:18:58.856-04:00Moscow Mitch Capitulates<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Said</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">(or rather</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">admitted)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Senate Majority Leader</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">and the self-styled "Grim Reaper"</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">openly proud of his past present</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">and likely future record</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">of impeding progress</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">on guns</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">healthcare</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">climate change</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">and anything else important</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Mitch McConnell yesterday</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "libre franklin" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">"The Senate impeachment rules</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "libre franklin" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">are very clear.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "libre franklin" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "libre franklin" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">The Senate</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "libre franklin" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">would have to take up an impeachment resolution</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "libre franklin" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">if it came over from the House"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "libre franklin" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "libre franklin" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">adding "I would have no choice but to take it up.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "libre franklin", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">”</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2019 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-83421870619377187852019-09-24T17:45:00.000-04:002019-09-24T17:45:05.360-04:00A Color Inquiry<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">After being made aware</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">of conversations between the President</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">today House Speaker Pelosi</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">decided that that fakey orange spray-tan color</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">was just no good on Trump</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">and mused aloud</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">on the possibility of him looking better</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">in peach.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2019 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-8480129036354907082019-09-17T18:01:00.003-04:002019-09-24T17:52:11.091-04:00Founding Mothers<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Goodbye Cokie Roberts</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">and thank you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">for your trailblazing service</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">in broadcast journalism.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
Even Trump<br />
<br />
albeit mixing in<br />
some traditional I-can't-take-criticism rhetoric<br />
<br />
likely aimed at Roberts' urging of "rational" Republicans<br />
to reject the then-candidate<br />
back in early 2016<br />
<br />
and her later confrontation with Trump<br />
on live TV<br />
about the effect of his racist rhetoric<br />
on children's behavior with their classmates<br />
<br />
said<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">She never treated me nicely.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But I would like to wish her family well.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">She was a professional</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and I respect professionals.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I respect you guys a lot</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">you people a lot.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">She was a real professional.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia, times, "times new roman", serif;">Never treated me well</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia, times, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia, times, "times new roman", serif;">but I certainly respect her as a professional.”</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18.64px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2019 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-4523770973502011832019-09-10T17:20:00.002-04:002019-09-10T18:50:01.220-04:00The DonSaid the man with Mafia connections<br />
and a record of hush-money payments<br />
contradicting the rules of Customs and Border Protection<br />
<br />
of the people trying to flee the Dorian-ravaged islands<br />
with the clothes on their backs<br />
and probably no papers<br />
<br />
showcasing not only his lack of compassion<br />
but limited vocabulary as well<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "retina" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">“I don’t want to allow people</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "retina" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">that weren’t supposed to be in the Bahamas</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "retina" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "retina" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">to come into the United States</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "retina" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">including some very bad people</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "retina" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">and some very bad gang members</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "retina" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "retina" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">and some very, very bad drug dealers."</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "retina" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "retina" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Said Bahamas resident Vida Hepburn</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "retina" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "retina" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">perhaps too charitably</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "retina" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "retina" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">"He's an idiot."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2019 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-45659088904206946782019-09-03T17:18:00.001-04:002019-09-03T19:15:36.119-04:00He Who Does Not See<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">On Sunday</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">after canceling a trip to Poland</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">to monitor Hurricane Dorian</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">President Trump was asked if he had a message</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">for the Central European country</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">commemorating the eightieth anniversary</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">of the start of World War II</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">(which in starker terms</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">that the interviewer perhaps unwisely omitted</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">was two days after</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">being invaded by Nazi Germany)</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">and gave an unusual response</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">(even more so considering</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Vice President Pence</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">there in his stead</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">said something appropriate)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">that can be summed up</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">in one word</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">"Congratulations."</span></span><br />
<br />
It all goes to show<br />
that Trump really ought<br />
to watch what he says<br />
<br />
or people might start thinking<br />
<br />
that he's either ignorant<br />
or has no problem with Nazis<br />
<br />
or perhaps<br />
just perhaps mind you<br />
<br />
both.<br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2019 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-2136398687938439352019-08-27T19:04:00.003-04:002019-08-27T19:04:44.679-04:00Haiku on Hate<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">Hate's only as big</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">as the space we allow it</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">by keeping silent.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2019 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569707589729634316.post-58905866675219878372019-08-13T18:45:00.001-04:002019-08-13T18:46:49.771-04:00Relay Racist<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">President Trump saying</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">"The retweet ...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">was from somebody</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">that is a very respected conservative pundit.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">So I think it was fine"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">in defense of his Twitter-based amplification</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">of a conspiracy theory</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">tying the Clintons</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">to Jeffrey Epstein's death</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">is parallel to a person</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">someone</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">anyone</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">acting like it's fine</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">to smile and say "Only in the Panhandle"</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">in response to a rallygoer who says</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">"Shoot them"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">meaning Mexican migrants</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">because the rallygoer</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">said it first.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30; font-family: "graphik web" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Oh wait.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This poem © 2019 Emily Cooper.</span>Emily Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594731584693018299noreply@blogger.com