RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: LIFE SONGS
The
Year of Constant Chaos
The
Trump Insurrection
and
so it began
We
jumped into action
and
ran ran ran
The
incredulous king
would
not give up his crown
The
election results
could
not bring him down
The
renewed virus continued to kill
It
seems we swallowed a poison pill
Some
fought it while others surrendered
and
yes we’re fighting it still
We
finally left Afghanistan
America’s
longest war
After
so many years of fighting
we
no longer knew what for
It
was a year so strange indeed
The
lead Republican was a Democrat
Remember
the saying of Senator Reid:
Hold
your noses cuz “I smell a rat”
Cops
found guilty of committing crimes
Breaking
the blue wall of silence
Will
this be the year we draw the line
between
reasonable force and violence?
The
ghost of rampant inflation
ran
roughshod across the nation
and
rampaged much of the planet
It
had been so long we could only say dammit!
Let’s
punt cuz we don’t understand it
China
and Russia formed a twisted alliance
Based
largely on mutual defiance
of
civilized norms and basic rights
Both
seemed anxious to start a fight
in
Taiwan or Georgia or embattled Ukraine
Vlad
the Great began his reign
and
Emperor Xi sang the same refrain
Their
love of power will drive them insane
Fires
hurricanes twisters and floods
Whole
towns engulfed and buried in mud
Those
who claimed a climate change hoax
Find
themselves political jokes
Democracy
threatened in all hemispheres
Dashing
our hopes engendering fears
But
the people rose and hopes were renewed
In
Chile Bolivia Honduras Peru
Omicron
became the new viral scourge
Strike
up the band for another dirge
We
sent our vision to the end of space
warming
the hearts of the human race
Winter
storms brought a mountain of snow
once
again allowing our hopes to grow
The
end of the drought may be drawing near
We
welcome the promise of a bright new year
