rhetoric

2 poems about thoughts and feelings post-election

About Electing Lies

Well
I am disappointed

So I guess
If I’m convicted of
Many crimes
And I’ve committed fraud
And broken promises
In marriage
And other relationships
So that
In fact
I break faith with everyone
And if I do not pay my bills
And if I want
To accuse people I’m afraid of
Of everything that isn’t
True

If I make a style
In fact
Of lying
And don’t pay my bills
And
By the way
I take everything that’s wrong with me
And say it is another’s
And not me
Though
It is

All I have to do
To get away with
All of it
Is to run for President
And get billionaires
To buy my way
For
Their own
Agendas

The same folk who
By the way
Won’t welcome
Me at
Table

Otherwise
It’s 17 June 1972
Another
Day the music died
And what we learned but that
We cannot
Trust the government
And should stay away from
All such things
And have
So much easier living
Through
Indifference

The Topsy-Turvy that Has No Playfulness in Topsy-Turvy

There are those
Who learn about the Holocaust
And take notes from
The evil side

So that the lie might be acknowledged
That some good things
Happened
Then
In Germany

Not
To say we can’t be academic
Though the filter must be moral
Or we are pursuing nothing
Human
Or has a place
On righteous Earth

We should be
Rhetorical
Understanding something of
Our honest discourse
With each other
And
We should study flaws in that
Tradition

You know
Straw people
Post hoc propter hoc
Gilding the lily
Though
Again
The point is not
To strategize to use the flaws
To dupe each other
Though
Some will
It’s
Sad to know

And one more thing
That should be
And that isn’t
Is that
Politics
Means good government
You know
The pursuit of by the people

And yet
Like taking notes
From the wrong side
And
Going for the
Discourse flaws

Not
To mention
Spewing accusations
In
A puerile attempt
To escape one’s
Own

The codes we could live by
Like good governance
And topsy-
Turvy
Fun on Ferris wheels

But good and evil upside-
Down to try
For ways to live
Simply act against
The deeper
And the shallower things we
Really know

Those presuming leadership who
Act against all virtue
And all wisdom
Though
Might
Try hollowly
Merely to use the worlds

Invite the citizenries
And
Congregations
To subscribe to indifference
To endure

C L Couch

(sorry should there be any ranting parts but not sorry for any easier-living-wisdom parts)

Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash

(x = space)

News for the Nichols Family

The attorney is speaking on TV

And no doubt on line

Programmers await

The bodycam

How shall this be gauged?

How shall the length

Be moderated?

I can go

Back to the local news

While I decide

We are happy with

The D.A.’s office

(paraphrasing)

And this becomes our cause

Expedient justice

I doubt that Tyre cares

Though his family might be bound:

If I found a lost someone

In my life

To cop violence

What should I do

Inside and outside?

This could happen

It’s happening

We shoot each other

Stab each other

Throw other things with edges

Use our vehicles

And we have the officers

Who work out

Whatever working out

With different kinds

Of crimes,

Misdemeanors on

To felonies

Our felonious society

There is justice there

There is safety

But in an unjust way

They have become selective

While most of us

Have to hope

Either side

Will not crash into

Our lives

To hurt too much

And this might be the best

Not to get hurt so much

And to bear the scars

That might be

A science, too,

Into lives we only hope

Mostly unscathed

Day by day

Then there’s color

That could be a signal

For delight

But totems pain and shame

Instead

Is there an answer?

Bring us in

Bring it in

All of us

Every one

Bury our dead as if

Each one were a victim

In a campaign

Like a war

Wait for the war to end

And fight unweaponed

Save by principle

And rhetoric,

The discourse and the common

Sense

To have it right

To have the land and air and water

Right

For life

In praise of sentience

And of consciousness

Let freedom ring

We sing

(we wing)

Let each one live

C L Couch

This is the noon hour on the day after charges were announced against officers allegedly involved in the death of (Ty-REE) Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee (USA).

Photo by Mr Cup / Fabien Barral on Unsplash