Golly, what a Pickle you’re In -- Bub,
How is it That you’re stuck in a Pub?
Gullible -- You look, Pimp
for why not hop, on Blimps?
and Fly in its Massive Ruba-dub.
HYSTERICAL BLINDNESS
I am lost in hysterical blindness
I could do with a bit of kindness
My cat Smudge died today
My blue skies have all turned grey
She was my companion for 19 years
Now all I have left is tears
My heart is broken, will it ever mend?
Smudge was my little furry friend
Hysterical blindness has taken over
I wonder if I’ll ever recover
Time heals wounds, that’s what they say
Will this grief ever go away?
I just want to go to bed
I need to rest my weary head
And in the morning when I wake
Maybe I’ll see this was all a mistake
My hysterical blindness will get better
You can be sure I will never forget her.
It continues to befuddle my inquisitive mind
why many of you have attacked and maligned
vaccines, and have decided to become aligned
with other naysayers. Are you physically blind?
It's not amusing when false dogma spreads terror
Your claims are outrageous and uttered in error
Open your eyes to the truth, and be a torchbearer
instead of creating hysteria as a rankled despairer.
I'm not suggesting you wear rose-colored shades,
but stop throwing darts at hearts and live grenades
at those fighting for the right cause in the crusades.
Life or death is not a game to play like charades.
I wonder how you'd feel if one you loved had died
for refusing to allow a needle to pierce their hide.
Would you admit your theories had been cockeyed
or pig-headedly insist, "Vaccinations are unjustified."
Remove the cloth binding your eyes. Set yourself free
of lies sweetened with rhetoric, so we all might be
safer in a world that's not destined for its apogee.
Listen, if you refuse to see. Please consider this plea.
October 5, 2021
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Are you blind that you cannot see? It is January 6, 2021.
The American flag plunges through a window of the capitol.
Their eyes are fine, technically speaking,
But all around chaos ensues and they don’t see it that way.
Capitol officers die during the insurrection;
Others take their own lives at a later date.
Look! You saw it that day! You huddled in a room, praying for it to end!
You said it was wrong! You called 45, begging him to stop them.
What has happened to you? The eyes, suddenly, cannot see a thing.
For if they did, people would have to take responsibility, tell the truth.
Men and women, blind to justice, took our house--OUR HOUSE!
All to appease a man whose cult-like appeal led them to hysterical blindness.
A man with no morals, no care, lies in the thousands, looking out only for number one.
Wake from your hysterical blindness before it is too late.
9/15/21
They were also there always
In a sense, and out of sense
Deep as a prowling tiger sifting in and out of a constant flow,
As if to be a river.
Jonah Tieman 09/14/21
The blind clown came to entertain,
But he had problems getting to his act.
He kicked away the juggling balls,
And left the bubbles jar intact.
With arms outreached,
He couldn't find his riding horse.
He stumbled and tripped and fell alot,
As his oversized shoes went off course.
He then tried to balance a plate,
On what he thought was a stick.
But it was a magical wand,
That turned his balloons into bricks.
Turns out that the crowd laughed a plenty,
As his bufoonery was a many.
12-September-2021
HYSTERICAL MOMENT IN DOLL HISTORY
small ///////////////////
doll X X
maul *
pall xxxxx
Screen darkens with small doll. Scared!
Found human to maul — pall snared.
1/25/2018
Hysterical People
Hysterical women are sane
It’s their natural state
Hysterical men are crazy and don’t know the ways.
Women carry fire to bed
Set themselves on
To set themselves apart
Rest like babies in the dark
That makes them straight and strong
Strangling poisonous snakes are there too
To swing them off to sleep
And sing sweet nothings in the ear
With no cares in the world
Nothing rattles a woman’s heart
Not even love or age
Men burst into flames
At the slightest touch of the cage
Instead of tears they cry war
Hysterical men can’t have children
For fear of stomach and financial gains
Women devour such creatures
There is no other way
Women live beyond all years for reasons
Not established here
Embrace the pain
Hysterical men run in circles
Then do it again
Global Warming Intrusion
Just an Optical Illusion?
Or a hysterical Delusion?
What goes up must come down
The media drags us all around
Climate Change is of the Sun
It is basically the only One
The Water Cycle takes the Care
of the Gases in the Air
Volcanoes spew out Gasey Goo
Nothing new , this always was
'cause this is what Our Cycle does.
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