Spaghetti hits the fan,
Whatever goes wrong–can…
Letting things slide
Like suicide,
Leaves very little planned.
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Brought it all on his head,
The wife’s got her own head…
Why try
Tired of the strive,
He wants to go back to bed.
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Blames himself he’s isolated,
No confidant located…
But those for hire–
Credit’s expired–
In fewer discussions he’s participated!
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Why anyone would stay,
He wants to hide away…
Have to muddle through–
Make an attempt to–
Would anyone pray?
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–Jonathan Caswell
She swallowed my comments TWICE,
I don’t think that was NICE…
One-sided talk–
The other side stopped–
Is really a fascist DEVICE!
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Although–there is another blog–
In which my comments don’t log…
This might be a measure
To some comments treasure,
I keep my comments open–not demagogue!
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They can do what they like,
I will not return a strike…
Nor delete
Any comments I meet,
Unless that is what they’d like!
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–Jonathan Caswell
Advice from an “old man”
Don’t let the crowd command…
You to produce
A poor excuse,
But pick your ground and stand!
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Having “LIKES” for posts is nice,
But some posts cut a deep slice…
Or folks bored
With that kind of sword,
Won’t be caught thinking twice!
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Many older posts,
Look like towns with ghosts…
Not a LIKE
Or comment strike,
So much for a poet’s boasts!
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–Jonathan Caswell
Trump said most recently,
Congress must see reality…
Force their spending
Like ours–unending,
Without taxpayer subsidy!
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Republicans want to give up,
Business as usual stuff…
THEIR coffers full–
Why should they pull
For anyone when they’re ensured enough?
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Check what I said earlier*
FEW POLITICIANS are pure…
Blind to our needs
While their guarantees,
Set them up royally for sure!
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–Jonathan Caswell
*See my poem FIRESSTORM MATERIAL–POLITICAL, posted earlier today.
This poem is based in part on a late night radio discussion related to the SOKAL AFFAIR…a literary hoax perpetrated in 1996, by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College London. He essentially produced a “scholarly” paper, submitted and accepted by a peer review professional journal…that was essentially a total farce, with big words and phrases meaning nothing and saying nothing—and nobody caught it or the joke!—Information via WIKIPEDIA.
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The program on late night radio was on the Buck Sexton Radio program, heard on WTAG, 580 AM AND 94.9 FM..(I-HEART Radio). or at http://bucksexton.com/ Two other men tried a similar stunt…which was similarly unquestioningly received…even by a certain very recent former President.
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Anyway…my opinion of these scholarly attempts to wake people up:
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THE SOKAL EFFECT–WHO WAS FOOLISH?
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Two academics decided,
The SOKAL AFFAIR, to retry it…
They thought the echelon
Would soon catch on,
To the foolish words and not buy it.
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Alas, they were amazed,
When the stupid thing was praised…
No one claimed to see
Its tomfoolery,
And no objections were raised!
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Alas, poor academia,
Write crap–you think it love–
“Goobledegook”
As truth they took,
On which none suspected of…!
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The authors, on Buck Sexton’s show,
Said academia scored very low…
Feeding such junk
To students who sunk
Under such high=priced foolishness—low!
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It troubles me that they tried,
With hopes of opening eyes…
Weren’t they aware
That complicity there,
Had already stagnified?
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Embarrassing people is the same
As a liberal calling bad names…
Same vocabulary–
What eye opening–
Wasting time on trite little games?
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Truth must come by force,
Changing hearts, not playing horse…
Christ had to die
Be sin crucified,
To change a human soul’s course!
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If you sound just like their friend,
Why expect foolishness’ end…
Look act like one
You’re shot before begun,
No matter what you’d intend.
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A dirty joke it was,
A lot of people “buzzed”…
Doesn’t help squat
If the whole lot,
Misses the point of the cause!
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–Jonathan Caswell,
M.S.E.–Biology, 1983
(for whatever good this is!)
True gentlemen know what’s there,
but politely don’t stare…
A lower view
Is tempting, true,
Maybe the lovely doesn’t care?
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These days whatever you say,
Often is taken wrong way…
Hardly yet gross
An alluring post,
Is a dressmaker’s good payday!
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Gentlemen watch and learn,
Don’t let curiosity burn…
Research in private
What should be inviolate,
A woman’s respect is earned!
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–Jonathan Caswell
A white SUV drove inside,
Parking way in back to abide…
Insignia’d door
I’d not seen before,
They stayed there–I lengthened my stride.
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When I was closing in,
They decided to move again…
With a sweeping turn
Some rubber was burned,
They didn’t want me talking to them.
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Took the long way around
And left without sound…
Yellow flashers
Was that a gesture
That they didn’t like giving ground?
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I thought I could be shot,
But…it’s MY parking lot…
A man with a cane
May be insane,
This territory is mine–theirs not!
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–Jonathan Caswell
He’s back to the hurly and burley,
Alone with his thoughts going squirrelly…
Kind folk did
Come to where he hid,
But retirement was too early!
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He won’t go away,
Unless the Rapture’s today!
He misses the crowd
And shouting out loud,
To let folks hear what he’ll say!
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Great cheers to the eighteen or so,
Visiting a blog readership low…
He’ll keep you informed–
His heart truly warmed–
For support you chose to bestow.
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Broken promises forgotten,
Being put off felt rotten…
Of you very few
I’m beholden to you,
For in compassion you were stopping!
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–Jonathan Caswell
Weaklings in self control
Think it’s okay baring soul…
Inner feelings
Have no dealings,
In reality on the whole!
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Illogical designs
On someone else–be kind–
shut yer yap
Don’t fall in the trap,
Of blurting and catching them blind!
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Inappropriate sayings,
Yours truly has gone through “payings”…
Better kept quiet
But started a riot,
Experienced social “painings”.
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Worst of all, there’s a place
When they throw it back in your face…
Not blaming them
For my..ahem..,
Wish I’d not opened that space!
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–Jonathan Caswell
(Each individual three-line haiku is considered a poem on its own,
despite perhaps being related to a common theme.–J.E.C.)
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(Additionally, haiku may or may not include punctuation—traditional haiku generally do not have it –J.E.C.)
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Presidents’ Day off
Waving away package trucks
Skeleton crew on
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American loss,
Long weekends not historic…
Blurred history lost!
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High snow banks turn brown
Road salt stains on pavement grey
Waiting for snow days
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Plow trucks stand idle
Except for salting road ice
No more overtime?
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Winter buds wonder
Is it time to grow and sprout?
Freeze burnt other years…!
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Swans in ponds feeding
Youngsters finally on their own
Mommas drove them off
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Easter candy sales
Set up before the fourteenth
Valentines half off
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–Jonathan Caswell
By the Mighty Mumford 