Comedic contortionist claims clubfeet;
consider carefully, circus clowns cheat.
Chico chipped Carson City's carved concrete
clumsily chiseling cheap cardboard containers.
Charlatans can calm capitol complainers
confounding Congressional campaigners.
July 6, 2022
The Fourth Eatate~ A Warning
Smear Campaigners of this world.
What glory they derive in destroying anyone.
Democrats or Republican! Blacks or
Whites!
It's fatally unhumorous and lying is
a sin!
But if you don't follow the Fourth
Estate's commandments,
They are fearless and having no
integrity_hurt our eyes, ears and
souls with outrageous impunity.
Worse, this is an international
devastation,
Where lies pour like torrential rains,
On too many unconscious nations.
So, it you believe all you read in print,
Never forget the billions of dollars
and agenda behind it
The rampant negativity, the fraud.
Never allow the Fourth Estate
To be your beloved master in thought
Nor in fate!
Practice due diligence, if you have a
soul and before it's way too late.
Panagiota Romios
4/22/2019
5:25am PasT
At the famous Folies Bergère
all the dancing girls fell sick
No one to entertain the tourists
who wouldn’t get to see high kicks
The manager of the venue
thought so long and very hard
He unchained the dancing bears
that lived in the tiny back yard
They went through their routine
since they’d not performed in years
They were absolutely step perfect
the manager was moved to tears
The polar bear and brown bears
became a massive hit on stage
All the dancing girls got sacked
dancing bears were all the rage!
But the animal rights campaigners
set up petitions on a Facebook group
It was deemed that the act was cruel
and disbanded the dancing bear troop
The high kicking girls were re employed
See them can can the whole night through
The dancing bears are now retired
They’ll end their days in the local zoo
Bring on the dancing bears contest
Sponsored by John Lawless
3/18/19
Floating blasphemy
Nature's holiness destroys
Hubris unpunished!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
13 April 2018
* The result of polluting our planet is that many trash islands have been created.
Campaigners are trying to get a floating garbage island the size of France recognized as a country in the North Pacific.
Hillary Has It In the Bag
To understand things often has been hard
So what is all of this about a Woman's Card
We find that causes every female to suffer
And getting through life making it tougher.
Maybe a Constitution Card we really need
Or a men's one causing them to stampede
That will then try to seal their final doom
When refusing to create transgender room.
Men's and Women's are currently in style
And voting lines that are as long as a mile
For voters for Trump which are unanimous
Most are either a misfit or an ignoramus.
Of delegates can campaigners be a raider
Or could they be known as a Trump traitor
How horrible women he has been treating
And by Hillary hope he will be badly beaten.
People started voting for Trump on purpose
After all he is now part of a three ring circus
And on him us women must be sure to rag
For President, Hillary surely has it in the bag.
James Thesarious Hilarious Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
Lions, tigers and bears alarm me, no-brainer!
Zookeepers seem to like them and circus trainers.
Some blokes put gray in your hair - like Freddy Krueger
but strokes are not funny, I panic 'round cougars.
Pythons, parrots and apes distress me, no-brainer
Crocodile Dundee was just an entertainer.
Trees are traps and leopards lie perfectly still there,
they'll permanently jeopardize lots more than hair.
Gray wolves, foxes and deer upset me, no-brainer
Forest rangers take care and jungle campaigners.
Locks don't stop gorillas, stray geese or grizzlies
merely seeing them turns my locks to frizzlies.
Toadfrogs, lizards and hares concern me, no-brainer.
Steve Irwin, I am not, should I make it plainer?
Lions, tigers and bears make me sweat unaware,
wild animal beasties leave me pulling my hair.
Where have all the feel good stories gone
I can't remember, it's been so long,
I hate to turn on and watch the news
I just walk away, with a case of the blues
Look, Joe Paterno just got the ax
cops just busted a guy for selling kids crack,
sexual harassment allegations, against Herman Cain
Mr. Rick Perry, looses train of thought again
Dr. Murray found guilty by a jury of his peers
a 7 year old dies, a community is in tears,
Berlusconi of Italy finally goes down
a cure for our economy, not easily found
I'd like to see a story, about a child being saved
instead of a story about them being slaves,
or a story of a pup, pulled from a drain
or a cure for someone in serious pain
Or two campaigners, with something nice to say
instead of finding skeletons any which way,
But I guess I'll just stop watching the news
and go through life with my own quirky views.
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