He didn’t make 100
So there’ll be no birthday fest
But the Windsor Castle Chapel
Is where he will lie at rest.
Prince Philip died at 99;
The flags will fly half-mast,
With ceremonies more subdued
Than in pre-Covid past.
The Queen and all her subjects
Will join in to mourn the Duke,
The public told to stay away,
Though not with much rebuke.
The question that’s on all our minds,
The answer far from clear,
Is whether Harry and his wife
Will buck up and appear.
Sit in the shroud of darkness for a few hours
Watch people during the night I feel pleasure
Inside I feel like the bodies falling from the twin towers
Crack my skull open to find a hidden treasure
~
Knowing people stare and tremble in fear
It helps me feel sweet dreams in slumber
Listen to the storm, the skies far from clear
Count to ten but get another wrong number
~
Off em like the life of another pathetic degenerate
Betrayal is imminent and I can't help but laugh
I know that my frozen soul is deep and separate
Watch the rest of the kids find comedy on my behalf
Government May Default
By Elton Camp
I admit that the details are far from clear
But I don’t like what it is that I now hear
If the U.S. cannot pay what it does owe
Then into a tailspin the economy will go
How about all of those highly paid folk
Some seem to act as if it is all some joke
If into default the government does go
I’m sure they’ll draw their salary, though
Why can’t they give their brains a wracking
To find the solution that the country’s lacking
Their lack of action the people are now tracking
And could very easily send all of them packing
Out, of the ordinary
Fairy tale, without the fairy
A family that seems a little scary
Winter, without the storming
Crucial, just not necessary
So strange, extra-ordinary
A world with perfect people.
No, you wont find me
Anywhere but here
The way you see me
Is pretty far from clear
A little different, not everyday
You cant judge me, it don’t work that way
So what, so what, if I’m growing up creepie?
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