Nerves Frayed

These are shaky times. I felt the shakiness back in March, and though the fellow in my drawing being pitchforked and jackhammered and otherwise beset looks more like a younger George Carlin than me, I think he may well be a psychological self-portrait.

Here are the words:

Never grab coyotes by the ruff
Nor contain a toxic load of stuff
Even if your sitch is cause to fear
Even though they’re shoving from the rear
Ragged edges tugging at the sclera
Raw reporting LIVE by Al Jazeera
Vermiform appendices display
Vanquished methods causing harm today
Evanescence wills us to degrade
Stilled propriety leaves us unpaid