Preface Whine:

The two poems included here have been bouncing around in my head in one form or another for about six months. Two nights ago as i was attempting to go to sleep, they came front and center into my sleepy brain almost in their entirety. They are in keeping with my being a curmudgeon.

The first one, “Titans” is not, not specifically about Trump, although he certainly fits this mold from my perspective. It is more a comment on many, if not all of our political, corporate, and military leaders, not just in our country, again from my perspective. With our leaders today, we need less ego and more humanity. Period.

Titans

titans roar,
but
it’s all inflated ego,
bluster;
titans kill,
but
only kill those who are not in their class,
perceived in a lower caste,
better, more human folks;
titans scream
but
always down,
never up;
titans manipulate their followers
to believe
lies;
titans don’t have a clue
as to what they are doing
except to make themselves
feel more powerful
and
that is a lie to themselves.

Sins

i loved my sins;
i pursued them with perverse abandon,
“but,”
as Wayon Jennings intoned,
“i’ve never intentionally hurt anyone;”
now,
my sins are verboten:
the phalanx of do-gooders along with the medical cadre
poke me, measure me, smell my urine (or something),
take my blood, check my stability, hah,
dictating i shouldn’t drink
or cuss,
or look at women who are not my own
even if there is no intention of evil on my part,
or
eat anything i like to eat
or
go where i want to go
or
run with the wind
or
sail the seas
or
slalom down a brilliant white trail,
or
dive for a line drive at shortstop,
or
swing a bat driving the ball
down the left field line for a double
or worse,
not allow me to put on my pads
and
tackle the runner cutting through the line,
hitting his gut with my shoulder,
driving him into the ground:
oh, what a glorious feeling
gone.

Post Script Whine: After watching for several years, i have determined that folks who back into parking spaces rather than going in forward as designed, are afraid to back out slowly and carefully because they are bad drivers. And most of them prove that when they block traffic while backing, turning, going forward, and turning again, taking inordinate time while blocking the traffic lanes for those who are good drivers and park in spaces going forward.