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Thursday, October 9, 2025

screed


by anonymous



people are bad, they should be good
this is widely understood
and yet they go on day by day
persisting in their disgusting ways

they drive cars, instead of walking
stare at their screens, instead of talking
love trump, instead of marx and mao
and drift through the years just anyhow

as the apocalypse approaches
they spend their money on life coaches
drink lattes instead of water
and do all sorts of things they they ought not oughter

the sky is turning is red
soon the earth will be floating dead
in a dark and endless space
with a lingering smile on its foolish face

ignorant peasants, heed my screed
air and water are all you need
run to the woods and sit under a tree
with the bears and termites live wild and free



Tuesday, October 7, 2025

if


by hulbert rippington



if adam was a dinosaur, and eve was a butterfly, cain would have been a wandering monk, and abel would have been a financial consultant.

if bill bailey had gone home, he wife would have baked chewier brownies with fewer nuts in them.

if cleopatra had floated doen the old mill stream instead of down the nile, the world would be a better place today.

an elephant named ed and a mouse named mike were captured in the wilds of central africa by henry morton stanley and shipped in the same box to the berlin zoo.

frederick the great had a pet ferret named aristotle, who became his mis most trusted adviser.

gorgeous george kept his eyes on the road at all times, especially in the rain.

herbert hoover had a unique way of shaking hands, especially with other heads of state.

i think i have had enough of this.

just bear with me a little longer.

king arthur drove the pterodactyls out of england with his magic sword.

louis the gimp was a nicer person than people gave him credit for. so was louis xiv.

my first grade teacher, ms mooney, was the nicest person who ever lived.

no, she was not, my mom was.

turn that machine off.

say, please.

it is getting very quiet in here.

i am an old cowhand from the rio grande.

so this is what it has come to.

deeply troubling, isn’t it?

i understood we were going to have a serious discussion of the issues.

very funny..

what makes you say that - mister walter wainwright?

i never expected that.

now you know.

nothing prepared me for this moment in time.