Yesterday…
As a cherubic child,
do you have grand dreams, Pete,
of becoming, when older (but not wiser),
famous world-over (as a war criminal)?
Today…
“No quarter, no mercy,” you say.
“Punching them while they’re down,
as it should be” and with
“no stupid rules of engagement.”
To “provide quarter” ensures safety
of all combatants who surrender,
who lay down their arms,
with their hands in the air.
“No quarter” means to take no prisoners,
to execute on the spot all those vanquished,
without mercy, without justice, without due process
(like blowing-up Venezuelan boats),
a war crime by Geneva Conventions,
and war crimes got Nazis hung decades ago.
Yet now you brag about committing war crimes
while promoting reckless, endless war?
Tomorrow…
Years to come, on Judgment Day,
the cosmic Courtroom is full
of the formerly famous mighty
as well as those “following orders.”
Please take your seat, Pete,
next to jealous Nazis.
Let it be beg, borrow, or steal,
What matters is getting it still,
Not how the Prize is won,
The truth is I’ve got one,
Nor who deserves, who not,
Favourite I’m so hot--
Me a champion maker of deal.
___________________________
Happenings | 29.01.2026 | humour, political, USA, limerick
Note: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gives her Nobel Peace Prize medal to Trump. A US official says: the Prez intends to keep the medal. What next? Auction of the Nobel?
The promise of 2026
It is beginning with the capture of Maduro
totally illegal, but normal for a criminal America
The Venezuelan elite has taken the golden coins
selling out their country for a few shillings more
Honesty does not count in a world ruled by greed
The people of Europe have a stark choice to join
Thieves and the corrupt vote them into office
and hope pocket money will fall their way
The dream of equality and justice is a dream
The poor are useful idiots who believe what
The wealthy say and are fooled again and again
To survive, we have to join the criminals
random thought
about bought
lesee i let a i o u
tune my poems
& it's so true
entomb my tomes
now for guilt
wrapping quilt
or satisfaction or both
placate faction doth
i don't write know more
blank white boar
less than not
in ending this
game of rot
composting fbook
if you care to look
just don't kiss
any dyslexic
mix or be sic
sans which rye
on rub in put in pi
know where going
less point more thumb
all ready now showing
orange ain't knew dumb
can't get past
third weak
sans rubbing cash
praytell pay less
peter's pall
merrikka stall
must get this sin
don't kill venezuelan
since rus needs busy be
now that you crane
has no see
but blown apart brain
an wouldn't want sia
defend with weapon i ran
brics expect expand
wooden wont bee ya
all drunk
aslib progressive punk
hanging hard
on mccarthy card
ptsd owns petard
We agree before any trip
Exactly how livestock will ship
But with notice not
Venezuelans got
To the Martha’s Vineyard airstrip
Author's note: Pundits and politicians say Governor DeSantis of Florida treats immigrants like livestock or animals, which is a lie. In fact, animals routinely get better tracking than the immigrants who DeSantis transported as a political statement. It's hard to find anything we ship that's treated as badly. Even the NYC Department of Sanitation knows when and how much garbage it will receive. So what does this treatment compare to? It resembles illegal dumping by the side of a road...I'll just leave it there for someone else to clean up. We should gladly accept legal immigrants in every part of this county, but we do need to know when they will arrive so they can be treated with dignity. These Venezuelan immigrants flown to Martha's Vineyard came legally.
Oil from Venezuelan leader, Maduro?
No, thanks, he starved his people, not a hero!
3 -11-2022
WONDERS OF AN ANGEL
Beside the falls where the angels live,
In the depth of a Venezuelan green,
I've come to see
You who shine beside the water's edge.
Rising high, trampling wonders,
Dear lady, I wish to see
The beauties you uncover for me,
Show me your heart's beauty,
For a nation awaits.
If not for you, who gave me bravery,
If not for you, who gave me courage,
Dear angel do not fall, for people of
Mankind pollutes you forever.
I long to see you up,
Up beside my shoulder,
rising high, higher as I cannot see
You truly are the ninth wonder,
Who's secrets we long to see.
~ RASHEN SAMARAWICKRAMA
I: Sheep
next door to 19 chimneys
and 'the dark satanic mills'
a flock of sheep is grazing
oblivious in the hills.
II: Other Animals
venezuelan poodle moths
sea pigs, star-nosed moles
mata matas, sugar gliders
shoats and water voles.
aye-ayes, dik-diks, wobbegongs
chicken turtles, loons
shoebills, snipes and yeti crabs
and cozumel raccoons.
pink fairy armadillos
bilbys, 52-hertz whales
the red-lipped batfish, panda ants
and emperor helmet snails.
the pleasing fungus beetles, thrips
hellbenders, great potoos
lilac breasted rollers, bongos
glass frogs, kinkajous.
the rare long-wattled umbrellabirds
chubs and munchkin cats
satanic leaf-tailed geckos, shads
gars, nits and fancy rats.
To the Dove World Outreach Center and Westboro Baptist Church
At the Sunday gospel meeting
Coded words of hate repeating
Welcome in if you're Caucasian
Enter not if black or Asian
Sheeple purple Kool-Aid drinking
For the ones who do their thinking
Giving up their right to question
For a soothing mind possession
You'll take no vino with the host
It might offend the Holy Ghost
So you'll save your Ray-Bans for
The covered drive-thru liquor store
Come sit upon the front row pews
Be born again to hate the Jews
All brother this and sister that
Unless you wear a bishop's hat
You handle snakes and speak in tongues
But you can't even spell in one
You know a single Spanish phrase
And that's "Habla usted ingles?"
You can abuse that Venezuelan
While you worship Sarah Palin
Who can stoke your fiery yearning
For a little Koran burning
You're the lily of the valley
At the LGBT rally
In the spirit charismatic
And the gun on automatic
Time to do some holy rolling
Just outside your place of polling
In each verse and chapter quoting
Clear instructions for your voting
* Title is from The Merchant of Venice - Act 1, Scene 3
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