Category Archives: News

POEM: Roll…er…Coast…er – Owed to Trump Tariff Wore

Posted on May 17, 2025 by Top Pun

Trump tariffs have chaotically bounced around from the highest in a century to the highest in a century. The biggest tax increase in U.S. history is parently the new Republican ideal. This poem is a tribute to this taxing chaos: … Continue reading →

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POEM: Meaner and Leaner, Have Way There

Posted on April 23, 2025 by Top Pun

Inspired by the mean and chaotic slash and burn of our federal government. Wons agin, welcome to new mismanagement. Meaner and Leaner, Have Way There The fat cats Broad caste The D.C. shuffle Their latest arrival A Department of Departments … Continue reading →

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POEM: Frankly, More Than Speaking – Owed to Pope Francis

Posted on April 21, 2025 by Top Pun

Frankly, More Than Speaking – Owed to Pope Francis “Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary use words.” – Ironically, words misattributed to St. Francis of Assisi There are many weighs to live And Pope Francis chose Servant … Continue reading →

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POEM: Don’t Look Up, Sunny

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Top Pun

In efface of ecological sanity and even decades-old market forces, the carbon-based life deform known as Donald Trump wants to bring back coal. I guess Trump’s century-old  vaudevillian show wants to feature Mother Earth in blackface. Under his watch in … Continue reading →

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POEM: Who Polices Who – Owed to Luigi Mangione

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Top Pun

Luigi Mangione is the suspect in the killing of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson. The U.S. Justice Department is seeking the death penalty. If nothing else, America seems good at killing. Of coarse, the sensational nature of this killing … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Joke is on US

Posted on April 1, 2025 by Top Pun

Here is the April Fool’s Day poem for this year… The Joke is on US Until more notice April Fool’s Day Will be X tended In definitely Without end Accept Its many means Enriching the rich Representing the national deficit … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Prize of Eggs

Posted on March 29, 2025 by Top Pun

In case you’ve run into a counter fit recently… The Prize of Eggs What’s up?! With that frightful dozin’ Scaring up In all probability Showing promise A lie ability Butt shucks It helps If you’re a chicken Laying big fat … Continue reading →

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POEM: Ugly Ducking

Posted on March 27, 2025 by Top Pun

More abductions every day in a ledged land of the free. Ugly Ducking If it looks like abduct If it paddles like abduct If it’s a quack like abduct Then it is in deed abduct Duck! Plane clothes agents Over … Continue reading →

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POEMS: Dealing with Knews and News

Posted on March 18, 2025 by Top Pun

When the news gets me down and the whirled peers bewildered, I try to simplify, get back to basics, go with what I know to be most true. For won, wee the people need to fight back against the rich … Continue reading →

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POEM: Know Spyin’ — Owed to Spineless Democrats

Posted on March 14, 2025 by Top Pun

We return now to the regular shutdown of our government. This poem is in anticipation of today’s expected (sic) collapse of Democrats in Congress to offer any courageous opposition to Republicans’ hostage-taking in government shutdown showdowns. Know Spyin’ I spy … Continue reading →

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POEM: Vaccine-Preventable Deafs

Posted on February 27, 2025 by Top Pun

The first person in a decade to die of measles has been an unvaccinated school-aged child in Texas. Our useless HHS Secretary, Rob Kennedy, Jr. echoed the under-recognized epidemiologist Tom Jones in declaring the ongoing measles outbreak, “Not unusual.” Here … Continue reading →

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Elon MUSK – The Stench of Wealth – Not Just, For Men

Posted on February 7, 2025 by Top Pun

Elon Musk does not pass the smell test. Here is won a bout dullards and scents: “Elon MUSK – The Stench of Wealth – Not Just, For Men”

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POEM: All Consuming Tax

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Top Pun

This poem suggests that tariffs may be wreckless, as a consumption tax, as they may help save the planet from US over consumption. All Consuming Tax Breaking news: The levies are being billed By the fodder of awe walls The … Continue reading →

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The mountaintop, in portions made human

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Top Pun

On this MLK Day, I am reminded of his “mountaintop” speech delivered the night before he was assassinated. I used this “mountaintop” reference in my poem, BUCKET BRIGADE – Owed to Karen Krause, written for a friend who died in … Continue reading →

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POEM: Mystic Ink 2.0 (to point: oh!)

Posted on January 5, 2025 by Top Pun

As I have moved into retirement, I noticed on my facebook profile that my “employment” was outmoded. So, I have created a new busyness: Mystic Ink 2.0 (to point: oh!). As a little background, in 2011, I decided to write … Continue reading →

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POEM: Your Fired

Posted on November 18, 2024 by Top Pun

Here is a poem in honor of COP 29, the United Nations Climate Change Conference happening now. The usual suspects, including a fossil-fuel friendly chair and a slew of fossil fuel lobbyists, will fiddle while Rome and all distant provinces … Continue reading →

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POEM: Wiled Fires

Posted on October 19, 2024 by Top Pun

Wild fire smoke plumes are still messing up our air quality. Unfortunately, with asthma, I pay a lot of attention to such things. Check out the air quality yourself at: https://www.airnow.gov/?city=Toledo&state=OH&country=USA (set for Toledo). Of course, I have a poem … Continue reading →

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POEM: Fratricide

Posted on October 15, 2024 by Top Pun

In case you didn’t no, fratricide is the killing of one’s brother, or sister, or any member of  won’s own, such as children of God. O Israel, do not bring a bout a hollowed future echoing with grief. Fratricide We … Continue reading →

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POEM: Fort Knox Elementary

Posted on October 2, 2024 by Top Pun

JD Vance at the Vice Presidential debate became the latest exemplar of the hollow response to school shootings, offering thoughts and preyers, and fortresses, and nothing else in between — except offering up our children to gun terror. This poem … Continue reading →

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POEM: De-construction Jobs

Posted on September 29, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem goes out to those lives and communities where climate disasters wreak havoc, especially those suffering in the chasm between those who have the wherewithal to recover and those who don’t. May we be good neighbors to each other … Continue reading →

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