What it is

June 2010: In a desperate attempt to stave off senility, the monkey began writing a poem a day. By summer's end he'd begun to run out of versified political rants and philosophical bloviations. Then he hit on the improbable idea of writing micro fiction in the form of Elizabethan sonnets. Eureka. The birth of the "Sonnets From Other Lives" series. Two hundred plus lives later, he's still at it.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

8/12
To understand the Wrecking Crew
ignore their words--watch what they do.
The GOP's no mystery
to those who know their history.
The rhetoric
is just a trick:
You watch the cape,
don't see the sword,
the real danger gets ignored.
Rabid ranting bloviators
homophobic racist haters,
are really only slight of hand--
distractions--when you understand
the real destruction that these guys have wrought
is helping uber haves take what they've got
by writing rules that take away from us
our rights, our unions, voices & our trust.
Buffoonery, you need to see, is only meant
to make a travesty of government--
the only power base we COULD control
if we ever woke the giant & set the goal
of finally taking charge & cutting free
from corporate controlled democracy.
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  1. P. A .HofmannAugust 16, 2010 at 4:28 PM

    Was it Frank Rich that coined the term--The Wrecking Crew? So apt. The meme deserves to be more wide spread as they co-opt our outrage to take power again.

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