Jeb!

New Hampshire primary day is here, and the media are saying that Jeb Bush has upped his game.  Decide for yourself.

There was silence, dead air, a long gap

The audience kept their hands in their lap

Jeb Bush went off script

He deftly ad libbed

And said to his listeners “Please clap”.

He wasn’t blowharding, he was refined

He was polite, and a little resigned

But what he did there

No speechwriter would dare

He reimagined their treasured applause line.

February is the Decider

Somewhere there are supercomputers making billions of calculations each second to try to predict next week’s weather, yet what do many people count on for weather forecasting?

We’re waiting for February second

When a groundhog will shyly ascend

From his hole in the ground,

Take a look around,

And decide when winter will end.

And think of the money that is spent on polling and economic research, when next week's Super Bowl will tell all.  If the NFC  Panthers win, the stock market will rise this year and the Democrats will win in the fall.  If the AFC Broncos win, stocks will fall and Republicans will win the election.  Then again, if it’s close the Democrats will win, and a rout will favor Republicans, and if the Redskins won their last home game … 

The Super Bowl is important to all

It predicts if stocks rise or they fall

And which conference wins

Is what determines

Who will host the Inaugural Ball.

Tonight’s Debate

The world’s best negotiator refuses to go face to face with a debate moderator.  What if he had to negotiate with someone with real power, like Angela Merkel?

He claims he has fire in his belly

But the tough guy’s legs turned to jelly

And he withdrew

As soon as he knew

That he’d have to face Megyn Kelly.

Without the headliner what will the show be like?

At tonight’s republican forum

They’ll be one ego short of a quorum

Without Trump onstage

Will others channel his rage

Or will they act with a bit of decorum?

But We’re Younger than Tina and Mick

Recent e mails from my high school reunion crowd have contained gentle reminders that we are not quite as healthy as we were when we graduated.

We grow a bit older each day

In our own individual way

Bad knees or bad backs

Wheezing lungs, heart attacks

Uh, …. I forgot what I was planning to say.

The problems I’m having are eye and ear related, most of which don’t show.

My eyebrows are growing like weeds

Sometimes their exuberance leads

To stray hairs in my eye

And they also supply

More decoration than my forehead needs.