in this fell administration

chess is played with pawns as queens

with the sacking of our nation

rife with thieving wayward means

and pretension grift and lying

has the press repressed and boxed in

with recriminations flying

and the ticking of the toxin

..

we need action free of static

to ensure such chaos quelling

but the bomb’s on automatic

and the good fight isn’t gelling

all the well-forged fine alliance

has been twisted all awry

absent decency’s compliance

we may curdle up and die

Microwaves containing messages and other information pass through our bodies an uncountable number of times a day, thanks to cell-phone technology and radio and stars. Though the above “jumbletron may seem busy unto incomprehensibility, it is laser-neam coherent compared to what a cell tower handles in a single second.

The “Rest Stop” rectangle is the simplest–one word per line, the last one hyphenated.

Ramifications

Entitlement

Seraglio

Two-step

Within each word a smaller word is emphasized.

IF

EME

RAG

OS

The word Eme is “chiefly Scottish” for Friend, according to the Scrabble Dictionary. The word Os indicates a bone, e.g. “os trapezium.” It might also mean the left eye, Oculus Sinister, or Operating System.

Discussion of the other rectangles will probably occur if my manuscript-in-progress ever see the light of day.

It never ends

It drains your soul

And Grief contends

With Stones To Roll

And Endlessness

And Lack of Fun

And What a Mess

We’ve just begun.

..

It must be done

And so let’s bless

The ship we run

Tight, more or less

And grab a bowl

And make some friends

And tell some droll

Tale and ascend.

Moving Ground

May plowed Earth goodness bring

Or probe with metal finger

Vivacity–trade too

In circulation you

Need stagnate ne’er again

Go Under now & wend

..

n.e.s. #181 of 480

the lady flings her arms persuasively. her left word balloon says “stablize” (not “stabilize”) and her right word balloon says “Zing!”

I love the look of land shifting beasts, and when one of them parked in front of the house I took a picture of it, and have started a sketch of it, and now I have the spine of an acrostic poem about it. The sketch and the poem will come around in due time, but when they do these early stages, fresh with undeveloped DNA, will be gone. I thought the balanced simplicity of them was worth preserving, just as photos are taken of a construction sote’s groundbreaking ceremony.

Sad news: Joe Biden’s Stage IV prostate cancer condition is worsening. Comment from the White House: “I don’t feel sorry for him.”

Joe, you were there for us in our darkest hour, and you turned our wayward nation around. When we needed coolness under fire you were the coolest guy in the room. Thank you.