Wild Goose Chase
—Photos by Caschwa, Sacramento, CA
ONE DAY IN EARLY AUGUST
—Caschwa
Every TV channel is showing the same
program; every radio station is playing
the same song.
The President of the United States of
America is the featured character in a
comic strip, where at one moment his
head is already half bitten off by an
immensely large and fierce wild animal…
and then in the next panel he appears
fully restored as if nothing at all had
happened, ready to double down on
more and more absurd pursuits.
One might easily choose quite a different
cartoon character to occupy the Oval
Office, almost any would be better, but
here we are watching the slow wheels
of justice, missing many teeth, doing
what it can.
BREAKING VS. FAKING
They play the same old fanfares
and wear the same old smiles;
nothing newsworthy to report,
just conjecture in heaps and piles.
Impeccable credentials
form a castle ‘round the experts;
right or wrong they sing their song
that soap can be worse than dirt.
It is their job, above all else
to raise new doubts and fears,
as long as viewers play the game
and buy more trucks and beers.
A TIME FOR CHANGE
—Caschwa
When the police come across
a subject in the commission of
a serious crime
that is the time
to pull out the gun and take that
piece of slime
into custody.
But when there is no clear proof
that the subject actually committed
a terrible offense
make it past tense
bark out some orders that
make little sense
call it protocol
and there is your clear proof
that the subject needs to be
shot to death.
BUDGET VACATION
—Caschwa
Had an intense desire to
partake all the sights and
sounds of The Ocre Trail
in France, but funds sorely
lacking to sign up for the
Private Provence Tour
So instead I got on the
Internet Highway, visited
The Ocre Trail, and then
was so happy to receive
the wonderful image of a
valid replica of a parchment
document certifying that I
was the proud holder of a
limited edition, “Me D’Ocre”
visitor award!
TWEET INTERMISSION: NONE
—Rhony Bhopla, Sacramento, CA
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, permits
the catapult of Trump Baby to the East.
Loose diaper, small hands and all, Baby T
hovers over landforms, rivers, the Black Sea.
Whoever’s in charge of restricted fly zones
over Afghanistan is asleep. Big Baby, with
his tiny patch of yellow on his sternum,
keeps on. Icarus on steroids. The war is on.
Xi Jinping and the rest of China wave at the
free-world leader as he floats toward them.
He sucks his free thumb, the other on his tweet
machine, and remembers last year’s lavish
Chinese State Dinner by 160 chefs, meal options:
steak and ketchup fillets in hot chili oil,
coconut flavored chicken soup—
hold the soya.
Mid-air, stuporous, Trump Baby lectures
globalists twice his age. We give so so much
to Chai-yna. No one has ever done as much as I do.
It’s only fair! I’m giving you tariffs Chai-yna,
then America will be great again!
Soybean, aluminum, steel, plus thirteen
thousand tariffs on Chinese products.
Trump Baby escalates to
fifty billion dollars per year of tariffs.
The tariff war is on.
China retaliates. How does this end?
No one wins a tariff war.
Because everyone knows
how to chart
the path
of least resistance.
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READ THIS FIRST
—Caschwa
How not to write a
Haiku in three lines or less
more or less, sort of
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Our thanks to Caschwa (Carl Schwartz) and Rhony Bhopla for bringing their fine poems into this morning’s Kitchen!
This week’s poetry readings in our area begin tonight with Sac. Poetry Center’s Hot Poetry in the Park at Fremont Park, 7:30pm. Thursday at noon, Third Thursdays at the Central Library poetry read-around takes place in downtown Sac., and that evening, also in downtown Sac., Poetry Unplugged at Luna’s Cafe presents featured readers and open mic beginning at 8pm.
James Lee Jobe will host two readings in Davis this weekend: The Other Voice with Carlena Wike and Allegra Silberstein (plus open mic) at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis, 7:30pm on Friday; and Barbara West and Mary Zeppa at Davis Arts Center on Sunday, 2pm. Also on Sunday: Poetry in Placerville presents William O’Daly and Ray Keifetz (plus open mic) at Love Birds Coffee & Tea Co. in Placerville, 1-3pm. Scroll down to the blue column (under the green column at the right) for info about these and other upcoming poetry events in our area—and note that more may be added at the last minute.
—Medusa
Celebrate poetry!
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