Maximization

Maxims, adages, aphorisms, axioms mantras and dictums are all supposed to contain distilled wisdom.

Look before you leap - but - he who hesitates is lost.

There’s an aphorism for every occasion

Covering all sides of each situation

Can’t make up your mind?

Seek advice and you’ll find

A maxim that gives aphormation.

You get what you pay for - yet - the best things in life are free.

A late arrival is better than none

But time and the tide wait for no one

Time creeps day to day

In its slow petty way

And flies by if you’re having fun.

Clueless in Class

And they thought I was pretty smart.

For their President my classmates chose me

And other officers who were charming and pretty

And I was too dumb

To ask them to come

To discuss class affairs privately.

After 10th grade the boys could get out of ROTC if they joined another before school program.  The only option I remember was chorus.  It was inside, the director was young and pretty and I learned to sing. 

In 10th grade ROTC was required

In 11th many boys joined the choir

The attraction for us?

There were girls in the chorus

And Mrs. Mastros who got us inspired.

Only Five Months ‘til the NH Primary

If Fox News is unavailable in your broadcast area and you don’t have cable was there a debate?  All I heard was that Trump talked more than anyone else.  That’s news?

He’s an acid tongued disgruntled grump

Spewing a stream of consciousness dump

As a multi-billionaire

Why would he care

To change a system that’s been good to *!! TRUMP !!*

Remember back in 2000 when the Supreme Court elected a dumbed down, from the hip shooting, plain talking, misspeaking, folksy, Ivy League educated, logic defying, intelligence denying ‘decider’?

Is his lead in the polls a bubble, a

Blip, is it something to trouble ya?

Is he destined to fall?

If you recall

We misunderestimated Dubbya.

They're Off and Running

Oh what’s that cacophonous sound?

The Circus is coming to town!

With old acts and new ones

Praising God, packing guns

With Trump the orange haired clown.

Tonight 14 of the declared Republican candidates will meet in NH for a pre-debate forum to be broadcast on C Span.  Only 10 will make the cut for Thursday's Fox 'News' debate.

Their tongues sharp and their tempers fraying

Who’s got what you need to stay in

And finish the fight

Trump is  absent tonight

Though Christie decided to weigh in.

They’re pumped and chomping the bit

They’re spewign some venomous shit

With reporters in thrall

Counting hit, flip and fall

Then we’ll get a load of their crit.