Dreamers, 1899. John Brown. (USPD.pub.date, artist life/COmmons.

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HOW LONG IS LOONEY?

If we live long enough

it’s gonna be tough.

Tell-tale signs of age

spoken off the cuff

betray us and oh

how long and how sad

will it get to be

before…until…we

write bad verse and yet don.t hesitate

to remember to meditate

on what’s gone before

and what lies ahead instead?

Hey nonny nonny

honey, if it it’s not funny

why do we laugh at

our forget-me-nots?

When will we touch base

and head for home?

Not funny, dammit,

unless you’re like me

easier to laugh

than it is to pee.

Ha ha got you there.

You expected “cry.”

I know, poor taste

when e’re I try

and will until my

looney runs dry.

Ouch! Tell me I

didn’t write this.

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I know about the unholy National Christians; the Peru that forced sterilizations to reduce poverty;  our unpatriotic Congessional  turncoats;  our seething mass of  short-changed  individuals provoking a fight and talking secession; the increased bombing of Gaza during cease=fire talks; the estimated two and a half million persons in our country  who were driven from their houses as a result of  emergency weather conditions in 2023; Navalny’s murder; frozen embryos declared God’s children in Alabama; the wealthiest successfully heading to space; the Biden age argument….as well as the truly unmentionable.  How to select one to elucidate upon?  Any would raise my already endangered blood pressure, thank you very much.

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FUNNY HAHA?

Not in the least…However, I cannot overlook the dark humor (mustn’t say black any more–what happened to ‘black is beautiful’?)  revealed in the two opposing extremes arrived at by those who deign to de-humanize citizens by taking their personal rights away.  During the dictatorship of Alberto Fujimori in Peru, more than 272,000 women and 22,000 men were sterilized in regions with high levels of poverty and a majority indigenous population, as part of Peru’s National Reproductive Health and Family Planning program.  idehpucp.pucp.edu.pe/…/Análisis-del-Dictamen-Fiscal-sobre-Esterilizaciones-Forzadas.pdf    One faction insists every woman should be denied an abortion–some even who are pregnant due to rape and/or incest.  Apparently politics has moved the repercussions from the pregnant woman to the professional facilitating the abortion.  As of 2024, California, Michigan, Ohio, and Vermont are the only U.S. states to have explicit rights to abortion in their state constitutions. Other states have implicit rights to abortion subject to state judicial review, such as Kansas and Montana, or simply protect it via state law such as Colorado and Massachusetts. The state constitutions of Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, and West Virginia explicitly contain no right to an abortion, even in cases of rape and/or incest.

So–we have on one hand the dictatorial folks mandating sterilization for the poor and on the other, forcing delivery by the pregnant woman, mandating no abortions for the pregnant.  One U.S. Supreme Court judge has even suggested being against safe sex.  This U.S. citizen (moi) is against limiting the personal rights of men or women, acknowledging that the rights disputed are most often against women, who were not allowed to even vote until 1920. Google says:

“Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle—victory took decades of agitation and protest.”  WHY?  What do you think?

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