Let's pretend, that life is one big joke?
We will end up in stockades,like pigs in a poke.
Laughter is enormously great therapy.
Yet some prefer jokes to reality.
Guffaws won't help you if your nation goes Commie!
So what's the deal...to make everything hey,
nanny, nanny?
Some shrink or smirk with sweat filled brows,
Unwilling to read any poetry except those
about marigolds taking bows?
That's fine,we need poets like that here!
But being afraid of reality is nothing to cheer!
Realists get labeled, or not read here??
Plain, silly, nonsensical, and immature outright
.fear.
As nutty as the cancel culture, banning Snow White!
Heavens, he kissed her in her sleep is no rape
plot nor plight.
Telling young children they have no sex?
Wrong! You were born with an X or Y
chromosome, by heck!
Write as you choose but don't ignore others.
Who have the courage to speak, while others
like fantasy covers.
Respect points of view, other than yours if you
can.
No matter our point of view, love one another,
respect the poetic family of man!
5/10/2021
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